diff --git a/src/test/java/org/apache/lucene/util/AbstractRandomizedTest.java b/src/test/java/org/apache/lucene/util/AbstractRandomizedTest.java
index 54701f2d60e..af934d38b7c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/apache/lucene/util/AbstractRandomizedTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/apache/lucene/util/AbstractRandomizedTest.java
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ import org.elasticsearch.common.util.concurrent.EsExecutors;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.CurrentTestFailedMarker;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.ElasticsearchIntegrationTest;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.ElasticsearchTestCase;
-import org.elasticsearch.test.PrintAllThreadStacksOnFailure;
 import org.elasticsearch.test.junit.listeners.ReproduceInfoPrinter;
 import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Before;
@@ -59,8 +58,7 @@ import java.util.logging.Logger;
 @Listeners({
         ReproduceInfoPrinter.class,
         FailureMarker.class,
-        CurrentTestFailedMarker.class,
-        PrintAllThreadStacksOnFailure.class
+        CurrentTestFailedMarker.class
 })
 @RunWith(value = com.carrotsearch.randomizedtesting.RandomizedRunner.class)
 @SuppressCodecs(value = "Lucene3x")
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/test/PrintAllThreadStacksOnFailure.java b/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/test/PrintAllThreadStacksOnFailure.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 691aa9f6155..00000000000
--- a/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/test/PrintAllThreadStacksOnFailure.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,42 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to Elasticsearch under one or more contributor
- * license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright
- * ownership. Elasticsearch licenses this file to you under
- * the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may
- * not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
- * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
- * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
- * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
- * specific language governing permissions and limitations
- * under the License.
- */
-package org.elasticsearch.test;
-
-import org.elasticsearch.common.logging.ESLogger;
-import org.elasticsearch.common.logging.Loggers;
-import org.junit.runner.Description;
-import org.junit.runner.notification.Failure;
-import org.junit.runner.notification.RunListener;
-
-/**
- * A {@link RunListener} that detects  test failures. We need it because we need
- * to reset the global / suite level cluster if a test fails but don't wanna reset it
- * for every subsequent test.
- */
-public class PrintAllThreadStacksOnFailure extends RunListener {
-
-    private final ESLogger logger = Loggers.getLogger(getClass());
-
-    @Override
-    public void testFailure(Failure failure) throws Exception {
-        logger.info("now dump all thread stacks on failure");
-        ElasticsearchTestCase.printStackDump(logger);
-        logger.info("done dump all thread stacks on failure");
-    }
-}