diff --git a/opentelemetry-sdk/benchmarks/logs/test_benchmark_logs.py b/opentelemetry-sdk/benchmarks/logs/test_benchmark_logs.py
index 197e053eaf..aef0f1655a 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-sdk/benchmarks/logs/test_benchmark_logs.py
+++ b/opentelemetry-sdk/benchmarks/logs/test_benchmark_logs.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 )
 
 
-def set_up_logging_handler(level):
+def _set_up_logging_handler(level):
     logger_provider = LoggerProvider()
     exporter = InMemoryLogExporter()
     processor = SimpleLogRecordProcessor(exporter=exporter)
@@ -18,21 +18,21 @@ def set_up_logging_handler(level):
     return handler
 
 
-def create_logger(handler, name):
+def _create_logger(handler, name):
     logger = logging.getLogger(name)
     logger.addHandler(handler)
     return logger
 
 
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("num_loggers", [1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("num_loggers", [1, 10, 100, 1000])
 def test_simple_get_logger_different_names(benchmark, num_loggers):
-    handler = set_up_logging_handler(level=logging.DEBUG)
+    handler = _set_up_logging_handler(level=logging.DEBUG)
     loggers = [
-        create_logger(handler, str(f"logger_{i}")) for i in range(num_loggers)
+        _create_logger(handler, str(f"logger_{i}")) for i in range(num_loggers)
     ]
 
     def benchmark_get_logger():
-        for i in range(10000):
+        for i in range(1000):
             loggers[i % num_loggers].warning("test message")
 
     benchmark(benchmark_get_logger)