diff --git a/roles/opendistro/opendistro-elasticsearch/templates/jvm.options.j2 b/roles/opendistro/opendistro-elasticsearch/templates/jvm.options.j2
index c4758969..9d4911cf 100644
--- a/roles/opendistro/opendistro-elasticsearch/templates/jvm.options.j2
+++ b/roles/opendistro/opendistro-elasticsearch/templates/jvm.options.j2
@@ -94,3 +94,6 @@
 -Dclk.tck=100
 -Djdk.attach.allowAttachSelf=true
 -Djava.security.policy=file:///usr/share/elasticsearch/plugins/opendistro_performance_analyzer/pa_config/es_security.policy
+
+## Disable log4j
+-Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true
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