diff --git a/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/http/netty4/Netty4HttpServerTransport.java b/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/http/netty4/Netty4HttpServerTransport.java
index 137ff735141..5fae4cb4bea 100644
--- a/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/http/netty4/Netty4HttpServerTransport.java
+++ b/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/http/netty4/Netty4HttpServerTransport.java
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ public class Netty4HttpServerTransport extends AbstractHttpServerTransport {
                                      SharedGroupFactory sharedGroupFactory) {
         super(settings, networkService, bigArrays, threadPool, xContentRegistry, dispatcher, clusterSettings);
         Netty4Utils.setAvailableProcessors(EsExecutors.NODE_PROCESSORS_SETTING.get(settings));
+        NettyAllocator.logAllocatorDescriptionIfNeeded();
         this.sharedGroupFactory = sharedGroupFactory;
 
         this.maxChunkSize = SETTING_HTTP_MAX_CHUNK_SIZE.get(settings);
diff --git a/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/Netty4Plugin.java b/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/Netty4Plugin.java
index c7ccef548c8..1428eb7b171 100644
--- a/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/Netty4Plugin.java
+++ b/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/Netty4Plugin.java
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@
 
 package org.elasticsearch.transport;
 
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
-import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.SetOnce;
 import org.elasticsearch.Version;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.io.stream.NamedWriteableRegistry;
@@ -51,14 +49,8 @@ public class Netty4Plugin extends Plugin implements NetworkPlugin {
     public static final String NETTY_TRANSPORT_NAME = "netty4";
     public static final String NETTY_HTTP_TRANSPORT_NAME = "netty4";
 
-    private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(Netty4Plugin.class);
-
     private final SetOnce<SharedGroupFactory> groupFactory = new SetOnce<>();
 
-    public Netty4Plugin() {
-        logger.info("creating NettyAllocator with the following configs: " + NettyAllocator.getAllocatorDescription());
-    }
-
     @Override
     public List<Setting<?>> getSettings() {
         return Arrays.asList(
diff --git a/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/NettyAllocator.java b/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/NettyAllocator.java
index 0c756917715..a23392319cf 100644
--- a/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/NettyAllocator.java
+++ b/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/NettyAllocator.java
@@ -27,12 +27,19 @@ import io.netty.buffer.UnpooledByteBufAllocator;
 import io.netty.channel.Channel;
 import io.netty.channel.ServerChannel;
 import io.netty.channel.socket.nio.NioServerSocketChannel;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
+import org.apache.logging.log4j.Logger;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.Booleans;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.unit.ByteSizeValue;
 import org.elasticsearch.monitor.jvm.JvmInfo;
 
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
+
 public class NettyAllocator {
 
+    private static final Logger logger = LogManager.getLogger(NettyAllocator.class);
+    private static final AtomicBoolean descriptionLogged = new AtomicBoolean(false);
+
     private static final ByteBufAllocator ALLOCATOR;
     private static final String DESCRIPTION;
 
@@ -95,6 +102,12 @@ public class NettyAllocator {
         }
     }
 
+    public static void logAllocatorDescriptionIfNeeded() {
+        if (descriptionLogged.compareAndSet(false, true)) {
+            logger.info("creating NettyAllocator with the following configs: " + NettyAllocator.getAllocatorDescription());
+        }
+    }
+
     public static ByteBufAllocator getAllocator() {
         return ALLOCATOR;
     }
diff --git a/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/netty4/Netty4Transport.java b/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/netty4/Netty4Transport.java
index 60095369bcf..b66f68998ca 100644
--- a/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/netty4/Netty4Transport.java
+++ b/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/netty4/Netty4Transport.java
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ public class Netty4Transport extends TcpTransport {
                            CircuitBreakerService circuitBreakerService, SharedGroupFactory sharedGroupFactory) {
         super(settings, version, threadPool, pageCacheRecycler, circuitBreakerService, namedWriteableRegistry, networkService);
         Netty4Utils.setAvailableProcessors(EsExecutors.NODE_PROCESSORS_SETTING.get(settings));
+        NettyAllocator.logAllocatorDescriptionIfNeeded();
         this.sharedGroupFactory = sharedGroupFactory;
 
         // See AdaptiveReceiveBufferSizePredictor#DEFAULT_XXX for default values in netty..., we can use higher ones for us, even fixed one
diff --git a/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/netty4/Netty4Utils.java b/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/netty4/Netty4Utils.java
index 0daf406aa11..939637d162b 100644
--- a/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/netty4/Netty4Utils.java
+++ b/modules/transport-netty4/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/transport/netty4/Netty4Utils.java
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
 
 public class Netty4Utils {
 
-    private static AtomicBoolean isAvailableProcessorsSet = new AtomicBoolean();
+    private static final AtomicBoolean isAvailableProcessorsSet = new AtomicBoolean();
 
     /**
      * Set the number of available processors that Netty uses for sizing various resources (e.g., thread pools).