diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/IndexWithShadowReplicasIT.java b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/IndexWithShadowReplicasIT.java
index 143fdc9fc28..7bae67f5b2f 100644
--- a/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/IndexWithShadowReplicasIT.java
+++ b/core/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/IndexWithShadowReplicasIT.java
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ public class IndexWithShadowReplicasIT extends ESIntegTestCase {
     // deleting the index and hence, deleting all the shard data for the index, the test
     // failure still showed some Lucene files in the data directory for that index. Not sure
     // why that is, so turning on more logging here.
-    @TestLogging("org.elasticsearch.indices:TRACE,org.elasticsearch.env:TRACE")
+    @TestLogging("org.elasticsearch.indices:TRACE,org.elasticsearch.env:TRACE,_root:DEBUG")
     public void testShadowReplicaNaturalRelocation() throws Exception {
         Path dataPath = createTempDir();
         Settings nodeSettings = nodeSettings(dataPath);