diff --git a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/kafka.adoc b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/kafka.adoc
index dc86da8e526dd..ba09646271789 100644
--- a/docs/src/main/asciidoc/kafka.adoc
+++ b/docs/src/main/asciidoc/kafka.adoc
@@ -2040,6 +2040,23 @@ private String toJson(Fruit f) {
 The workaround is a bit more complex as besides sending the fruits coming from Kafka, we need to send pings periodically.
 To achieve this we merge the stream coming from Kafka and a periodic stream emitting `{}` every 10 seconds.
 
+== Logging
+
+To reduce the amount of log written by the Kafka client, Quarkus sets the level of the following log categories to `WARNING`:
+
+- `org.apache.kafka.clients`
+- `org.apache.kafka.common.utils`
+- `org.apache.kafka.common.metrics`
+
+You can override the configuration by adding the following lines to the `application.properties`:
+
+[source, properties]
+----
+quarkus.log.category."org.apache.kafka.clients".level=INFO
+quarkus.log.category."org.apache.kafka.common.utils".level=INFO
+quarkus.log.category."org.apache.kafka.common.metrics".level=INFO
+----
+
 == Going further
 
 This guide has shown how you can interact with Kafka using Quarkus.
diff --git a/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kafka/client/deployment/KafkaProcessor.java b/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kafka/client/deployment/KafkaProcessor.java
index b1be4d68871a2..ef58f94691a16 100644
--- a/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kafka/client/deployment/KafkaProcessor.java
+++ b/extensions/kafka-client/deployment/src/main/java/io/quarkus/kafka/client/deployment/KafkaProcessor.java
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.function.Consumer;
+import java.util.logging.Level;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 
 import javax.security.auth.spi.LoginModule;
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.ExtensionSslNativeSupportBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.FeatureBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.IndexDependencyBuildItem;
+import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.LogCategoryBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.RuntimeConfigSetupCompleteBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.nativeimage.NativeImageProxyDefinitionBuildItem;
 import io.quarkus.deployment.builditem.nativeimage.NativeImageResourceBuildItem;
@@ -125,6 +127,16 @@ FeatureBuildItem feature() {
         return new FeatureBuildItem(Feature.KAFKA_CLIENT);
     }
 
+    @BuildStep
+    void logging(BuildProducer<LogCategoryBuildItem> log) {
+        // Reduce the log level of Kafka as it tends to log a bit too much.
+        // See - https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus/issues/20170
+        log.produce(new LogCategoryBuildItem("org.apache.kafka.clients", Level.WARNING));
+        log.produce(new LogCategoryBuildItem("org.apache.kafka.common.utils", Level.WARNING));
+        log.produce(new LogCategoryBuildItem("org.apache.kafka.common.metrics", Level.WARNING));
+
+    }
+
     @BuildStep
     void addSaslProvidersToNativeImage(BuildProducer<NativeImageSecurityProviderBuildItem> additionalProviders) {
         for (String provider : SASL_PROVIDERS) {