diff --git a/examples/other/logging_configuration.md b/examples/other/logging_configuration.md
index acd9c1f2bc0a5..c70b853c12769 100644
--- a/examples/other/logging_configuration.md
+++ b/examples/other/logging_configuration.md
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ disabled, an error will occur while starting vLLM.
 ### Example 1: Customize vLLM root logger
 
 For this example, we will customize the vLLM root logger to use
-[`python-json-logger`](https://github.com/madzak/python-json-logger) to log to
+[`python-json-logger`](https://github.com/nhairs/python-json-logger)
+(which is part of the container image) to log to
 STDOUT of the console in JSON format with a log level of `INFO`.
 
 To begin, first, create an appropriate JSON logging configuration file:
@@ -82,12 +83,6 @@ To begin, first, create an appropriate JSON logging configuration file:
 }
 ```
 
-Next, install the `python-json-logger` package if it's not already installed:
-
-```bash
-pip install python-json-logger
-```
-
 Finally, run vLLM with the `VLLM_LOGGING_CONFIG_PATH` environment variable set
 to the path of the custom logging configuration JSON file:
 
diff --git a/requirements-common.txt b/requirements-common.txt
index c0df136f500e3..0514bf8adcafe 100644
--- a/requirements-common.txt
+++ b/requirements-common.txt
@@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ compressed-tensors == 0.9.2 # required for compressed-tensors
 depyf==0.18.0 # required for profiling and debugging with compilation config
 cloudpickle # allows pickling lambda functions in model_executor/models/registry.py
 watchfiles # required for http server to monitor the updates of TLS files
+python-json-logger # Used by logging as per examples/other/logging_configuration.md