diff --git a/components/camel-telemetry-dev/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/telemetrydev/TelemetryDevTracerTestSupport.java b/components/camel-telemetry-dev/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/telemetrydev/TelemetryDevTracerTestSupport.java
index 56f63d67d5c32..0b7f67e96f3f5 100644
--- a/components/camel-telemetry-dev/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/telemetrydev/TelemetryDevTracerTestSupport.java
+++ b/components/camel-telemetry-dev/src/test/java/org/apache/camel/telemetrydev/TelemetryDevTracerTestSupport.java
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext;
 import org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.RollingFileAppender;
-import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 
 public class TelemetryDevTracerTestSupport extends ExchangeTestSupport {
 
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ protected Map<String, DevTrace> tracesFromLog() throws IOException {
      * This one is required to rollover the log traces database file and make sure each test has its own
      * set of fresh data.
      */
-    @AfterEach
+    @BeforeEach
     public synchronized void clearLogTraces() throws IOException {
         final LoggerContext ctx = (LoggerContext) LogManager.getContext(false);
         RollingFileAppender appender = (RollingFileAppender) ctx.getConfiguration().getAppenders().get("file2");