diff --git a/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/its/base/testutil/log/LogUtil.java b/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/its/base/testutil/log/LogUtil.java
index adccee8..17830db 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/its/base/testutil/log/LogUtil.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/its/base/testutil/log/LogUtil.java
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 package com.googlesource.gerrit.plugins.its.base.testutil.log;
 
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
+import com.google.common.flogger.FluentLogger;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.logging.Handler;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
@@ -86,14 +87,31 @@
    * @param level The level to user for the logger.
    */
   private static void logToCollectionJul(String logName, CollectionAppender appender, Level level) {
-    java.util.logging.Logger julLogger = java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(logName);
+    // We'd love to simply get the logger of name `logName` and directly
+    // configure that. While this works for running the tests in bazel, it
+    // fails when running tests from within Eclipse. In Eclipse getting the
+    // logger of the same name here and from the class-under-test will get two
+    // different loggers, due to backend calling from a different class. So we
+    // instead resort to configuring the root logger and filtering the logName
+    // in the appender.
+
+    // The description above works for the 2nd, 3rd, ... test of a test case in
+    // Eclipse, but not for the first. To cover the first test as well, we
+    // beforehand tell Flogger to set things up by getting any random logger
+    // /before/ we configure the root logger.
+    @SuppressWarnings("unused")
+    FluentLogger unused = FluentLogger.forEnclosingClass();
+
+    java.util.logging.Logger julLogger = java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger("");
     julLogger.setLevel(level);
 
     julLogger.addHandler(
         new Handler() {
           @Override
           public void publish(LogRecord record) {
-            appender.append(record);
+            if (record.getLoggerName().equals(logName)) {
+              appender.append(record);
+            }
           }
 
           @Override