diff --git a/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2.scala b/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2.scala
index 6e07df18b0e153e92a439bec5d767fd307a2a59e..525777aa454c49dfa77a2d10917ffebe27996e09 100644
--- a/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2.scala
+++ b/sql/hive-thriftserver/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/hive/thriftserver/HiveThriftServer2.scala
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 package org.apache.spark.sql.hive.thriftserver
 
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory
+import org.apache.hadoop.hive.common.LogUtils
 import org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf
 import org.apache.hadoop.hive.conf.HiveConf.ConfVars
 import org.apache.hive.service.cli.thrift.{ThriftBinaryCLIService, ThriftHttpCLIService}
@@ -54,6 +55,8 @@ object HiveThriftServer2 extends Logging {
       System.exit(-1)
     }
 
+    LogUtils.initHiveLog4j()
+
     logInfo("Starting SparkContext")
     SparkSQLEnv.init()