diff --git a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-ecs-logging-plugin/pom.xml b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-ecs-logging-plugin/pom.xml
index ba0c33a64b..4ce2c3c8ba 100644
--- a/apm-agent-plugins/apm-ecs-logging-plugin/pom.xml
+++ b/apm-agent-plugins/apm-ecs-logging-plugin/pom.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
         <dependency>
             <groupId>co.elastic.logging</groupId>
             <artifactId>log4j2-ecs-layout</artifactId>
-            <version>1.4.0</version>
+            <version>1.5.0</version>
             <scope>provided</scope>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 3e6047286b..25a27ef885 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@
         (https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-9488#vulnCurrentDescriptionTitle), the SMTP appender is
          excluded from the build and not packaged into the agent artifacts -->
         <version.log4j>2.12.4</version.log4j>
-        <version.log4j2-ecs-layout>1.4.0</version.log4j2-ecs-layout>
+        <version.log4j2-ecs-layout>1.5.0</version.log4j2-ecs-layout>
         <version.spring>5.0.15.RELEASE</version.spring>
         <version.spring-boot>2.2.2.RELEASE</version.spring-boot>
         <version.jetty-server>9.4.11.v20180605</version.jetty-server>