diff --git a/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc
index b5965cc75f1c..73b53e370dc6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc
@@ -67,6 +67,7 @@ The list below covers the major changes between 7.0.0-rc2 and main only.
 - `queue.ACKListener` has been removed. Queue configurations now accept an explicit callback function for ACK handling. {pull}35078[35078]
 - Split split httpmon out of x-pack/filebeat/input/internal/httplog. {pull}36385[36385]
 - Beats publishing pipeline does not propagate the close signal to its clients any more. It's responsibility of the user to close the pipeline client. {issue}38197[38197] {pull}38556[38556]
+- Debug log entries from the acker (`stateful ack ...` or `stateless ack ...`) removed. {pull}39672[39672]
 
 ==== Bugfixes
 
diff --git a/filebeat/beater/acker.go b/filebeat/beater/acker.go
index 00da2762b1d6..9c7df1f202cf 100644
--- a/filebeat/beater/acker.go
+++ b/filebeat/beater/acker.go
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/filebeat/input/file"
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/beat"
 	"github.com/elastic/beats/v7/libbeat/common/acker"
-	"github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-libs/logp"
 )
 
 type statefulLogger interface {
@@ -35,8 +34,6 @@ type statelessLogger interface {
 // eventAcker handles publisher pipeline ACKs and forwards
 // them to the registrar or directly to the stateless logger.
 func eventACKer(statelessOut statelessLogger, statefulOut statefulLogger) beat.EventListener {
-	log := logp.NewLogger("acker")
-
 	return acker.EventPrivateReporter(func(_ int, data []interface{}) {
 		stateless := 0
 		states := make([]file.State, 0, len(data))
@@ -56,12 +53,10 @@ func eventACKer(statelessOut statelessLogger, statefulOut statefulLogger) beat.E
 		}
 
 		if len(states) > 0 {
-			log.Debugw("stateful ack", "count", len(states))
 			statefulOut.Published(states)
 		}
 
 		if stateless > 0 {
-			log.Debugw("stateless ack", "count", stateless)
 			statelessOut.Published(stateless)
 		}
 	})