diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/engine/InternalEngineTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/engine/InternalEngineTests.java
index c38f426dbfb59..79e5cf7489ca3 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/engine/InternalEngineTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/index/engine/InternalEngineTests.java
@@ -2369,7 +2369,7 @@ public void testIndexWriterInfoStream() throws IllegalAccessException, IOExcepti
             engine.index(indexForDoc(doc));
             engine.flush();
             assertTrue(mockAppender.sawIndexWriterMessage);
-
+            engine.close();
         } finally {
             Loggers.removeAppender(rootLogger, mockAppender);
             mockAppender.stop();