diff --git a/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RequestConverters.java b/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RequestConverters.java
index 1430f407135..a81060e6624 100644
--- a/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RequestConverters.java
+++ b/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RequestConverters.java
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ import org.elasticsearch.common.SuppressForbidden;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.bytes.BytesReference;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.lucene.uid.Versions;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.unit.TimeValue;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.LoggingDeprecationHandler;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.DeprecationHandler;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.NamedXContentRegistry;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.ToXContent;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContent;
@@ -424,8 +424,14 @@ final class RequestConverters {
                 BytesReference indexSource = indexRequest.source();
                 XContentType indexXContentType = indexRequest.getContentType();
 
-                try (XContentParser parser = XContentHelper.createParser(NamedXContentRegistry.EMPTY,
-                    LoggingDeprecationHandler.INSTANCE, indexSource, indexXContentType)) {
+                try (XContentParser parser = XContentHelper.createParser(
+                        /*
+                         * EMPTY and THROW are fine here because we just call
+                         * copyCurrentStructure which doesn't touch the
+                         * registry or deprecation.
+                         */
+                        NamedXContentRegistry.EMPTY, DeprecationHandler.THROW_UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION,
+                        indexSource, indexXContentType)) {
                     try (XContentBuilder builder = XContentBuilder.builder(bulkContentType.xContent())) {
                         builder.copyCurrentStructure(parser);
                         source = BytesReference.bytes(builder).toBytesRef();
diff --git a/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RestHighLevelClient.java b/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RestHighLevelClient.java
index 4fc3dd87df1..e6e98d73c65 100644
--- a/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RestHighLevelClient.java
+++ b/client/rest-high-level/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/client/RestHighLevelClient.java
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ import org.elasticsearch.common.CheckedConsumer;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.CheckedFunction;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.ParseField;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.ContextParser;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.LoggingDeprecationHandler;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.DeprecationHandler;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.NamedXContentRegistry;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentParser;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentType;
@@ -1090,8 +1090,7 @@ public class RestHighLevelClient implements Closeable {
         if (xContentType == null) {
             throw new IllegalStateException("Unsupported Content-Type: " + entity.getContentType().getValue());
         }
-        try (XContentParser parser = xContentType.xContent().createParser(registry,
-            LoggingDeprecationHandler.INSTANCE, entity.getContent())) {
+        try (XContentParser parser = xContentType.xContent().createParser(registry, DEPRECATION_HANDLER, entity.getContent())) {
             return entityParser.apply(parser);
         }
     }
@@ -1109,6 +1108,19 @@ public class RestHighLevelClient implements Closeable {
         return response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == 200;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Ignores deprecation warnings. This is appropriate because it is only
+     * used to parse responses from Elasticsearch. Any deprecation warnings
+     * emitted there just mean that you are talking to an old version of
+     * Elasticsearch. There isn't anything you can do about the deprecation.
+     */
+    private static final DeprecationHandler DEPRECATION_HANDLER = new DeprecationHandler() {
+        @Override
+        public void usedDeprecatedName(String usedName, String modernName) {}
+        @Override
+        public void usedDeprecatedField(String usedName, String replacedWith) {}
+    };
+
     static List<NamedXContentRegistry.Entry> getDefaultNamedXContents() {
         Map<String, ContextParser<Object, ? extends Aggregation>> map = new HashMap<>();
         map.put(CardinalityAggregationBuilder.NAME, (p, c) -> ParsedCardinality.fromXContent(p, (String) c));
diff --git a/client/rest-high-level/src/main/resources/forbidden/rest-high-level-signatures.txt b/client/rest-high-level/src/main/resources/forbidden/rest-high-level-signatures.txt
index fb2330f3f08..33e136a66f4 100644
--- a/client/rest-high-level/src/main/resources/forbidden/rest-high-level-signatures.txt
+++ b/client/rest-high-level/src/main/resources/forbidden/rest-high-level-signatures.txt
@@ -19,3 +19,6 @@ org.apache.http.entity.ContentType#create(java.lang.String)
 org.apache.http.entity.ContentType#create(java.lang.String,java.lang.String)
 org.apache.http.entity.ContentType#create(java.lang.String,java.nio.charset.Charset)
 org.apache.http.entity.ContentType#create(java.lang.String,org.apache.http.NameValuePair[])
+
+@defaultMessage We can't rely on log4j2 being on the classpath so don't log deprecations!
+org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.LoggingDeprecationHandler
diff --git a/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/SyncedFlushResponseTests.java b/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/SyncedFlushResponseTests.java
index 0756cfa6bab..8057a92b3f2 100644
--- a/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/SyncedFlushResponseTests.java
+++ b/client/rest-high-level/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/client/SyncedFlushResponseTests.java
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ import org.elasticsearch.cluster.routing.ShardRouting;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.routing.ShardRoutingState;
 import org.elasticsearch.cluster.routing.TestShardRouting;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.bytes.BytesReference;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.LoggingDeprecationHandler;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.DeprecationHandler;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.ToXContent;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentParser;
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ public class SyncedFlushResponseTests extends ESTestCase {
                 .xContent()
                 .createParser(
                     xContentRegistry(),
-                    LoggingDeprecationHandler.INSTANCE,
+                    DeprecationHandler.THROW_UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION,
                     BytesReference.bytes(serverResponsebuilder).streamInput()
                 ).map()
         );
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ public class SyncedFlushResponseTests extends ESTestCase {
                 .xContent()
                 .createParser(
                     xContentRegistry(),
-                    LoggingDeprecationHandler.INSTANCE,
+                    DeprecationHandler.THROW_UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION,
                     BytesReference.bytes(clientResponsebuilder).streamInput()
                 )
                 .map()
@@ -94,7 +94,9 @@ public class SyncedFlushResponseTests extends ESTestCase {
             .contentType()
             .xContent()
             .createParser(
-                xContentRegistry(), LoggingDeprecationHandler.INSTANCE, BytesReference.bytes(builder).streamInput()
+                xContentRegistry(),
+                DeprecationHandler.THROW_UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION,
+                BytesReference.bytes(builder).streamInput()
             );
         SyncedFlushResponse originalResponse = plan.clientResult;
         SyncedFlushResponse parsedResponse = SyncedFlushResponse.fromXContent(parser);
@@ -175,7 +177,8 @@ public class SyncedFlushResponseTests extends ESTestCase {
                                     .contentType()
                                     .xContent()
                                     .createParser(
-                                        xContentRegistry(), LoggingDeprecationHandler.INSTANCE,
+                                        xContentRegistry(),
+                                        DeprecationHandler.THROW_UNSUPPORTED_OPERATION,
                                         BytesReference.bytes(builder).streamInput()
                                     )
                                     .map();