diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/ml/qa/native-multi-node-tests/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/integration/RunDataFrameAnalyticsIT.java b/x-pack/plugin/ml/qa/native-multi-node-tests/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/integration/RunDataFrameAnalyticsIT.java
index 70c5150eda4..7e5308d0540 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/ml/qa/native-multi-node-tests/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/integration/RunDataFrameAnalyticsIT.java
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/ml/qa/native-multi-node-tests/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/ml/integration/RunDataFrameAnalyticsIT.java
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import org.elasticsearch.action.get.GetResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.index.IndexRequest;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchResponse;
 import org.elasticsearch.action.support.WriteRequest;
+import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.unit.ByteSizeUnit;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.unit.ByteSizeValue;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentType;
@@ -28,6 +29,7 @@ import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ml.dataframe.DataFrameAnalyticsSource;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ml.dataframe.DataFrameAnalyticsState;
 import org.elasticsearch.xpack.core.ml.dataframe.analyses.OutlierDetection;
 import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
 
 import java.util.Map;
 
@@ -45,9 +47,25 @@ import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.startsWith;
 
 public class RunDataFrameAnalyticsIT extends MlNativeDataFrameAnalyticsIntegTestCase {
 
+    @Before
+    public void enableLogging() {
+        client().admin().cluster()
+            .prepareUpdateSettings()
+            .setTransientSettings(Settings.builder()
+                .put("logger.org.elasticsearch.xpack.ml.action", "DEBUG")
+                .put("logger.org.elasticsearch.xpack.ml.dataframe", "DEBUG"))
+            .get();
+    }
+
     @After
     public void cleanup() {
         cleanUp();
+        client().admin().cluster()
+            .prepareUpdateSettings()
+            .setTransientSettings(Settings.builder()
+                .putNull("logger.org.elasticsearch.xpack.ml.action")
+                .putNull("logger.org.elasticsearch.xpack.ml.dataframe"))
+            .get();
     }
 
     public void testOutlierDetectionWithFewDocuments() throws Exception {