diff --git a/airflow/providers/elasticsearch/log/es_task_handler.py b/airflow/providers/elasticsearch/log/es_task_handler.py
index c9d3a180e1edc..227148e52b921 100644
--- a/airflow/providers/elasticsearch/log/es_task_handler.py
+++ b/airflow/providers/elasticsearch/log/es_task_handler.py
@@ -71,14 +71,17 @@ def get_es_kwargs_from_config() -> dict[str, Any]:
         if elastic_search_config
         else {}
     )
-    # For elasticsearch>8 retry_timeout have changed for elasticsearch to retry_on_timeout
-    # in Elasticsearch() compared to previous versions.
-    # Read more at: https://elasticsearch-py.readthedocs.io/en/v8.8.2/api.html#module-elasticsearch
+    # TODO: Remove in next major release (drop support for elasticsearch<8 parameters)
     if (
         elastic_search_config
         and "retry_timeout" in elastic_search_config
         and not kwargs_dict.get("retry_on_timeout")
     ):
+        warnings.warn(
+            "retry_timeout is not supported with elasticsearch>=8. Please use `retry_on_timeout`.",
+            AirflowProviderDeprecationWarning,
+            stacklevel=2,
+        )
         retry_timeout = elastic_search_config.get("retry_timeout")
         if retry_timeout is not None:
             kwargs_dict["retry_on_timeout"] = retry_timeout
diff --git a/docs/apache-airflow-providers-elasticsearch/logging/index.rst b/docs/apache-airflow-providers-elasticsearch/logging/index.rst
index eb2acc55d224b..fcb943a3d8734 100644
--- a/docs/apache-airflow-providers-elasticsearch/logging/index.rst
+++ b/docs/apache-airflow-providers-elasticsearch/logging/index.rst
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ cert, etc.) use the ``elasticsearch_configs`` setting in your ``airflow.cfg``
     remote_logging = True
 
     [elasticsearch_configs]
-    use_ssl=True
     verify_certs=True
     ca_certs=/path/to/CA_certs
 
diff --git a/tests/providers/elasticsearch/log/test_es_task_handler.py b/tests/providers/elasticsearch/log/test_es_task_handler.py
index ec2bd3016a217..4a6e551b5d1b9 100644
--- a/tests/providers/elasticsearch/log/test_es_task_handler.py
+++ b/tests/providers/elasticsearch/log/test_es_task_handler.py
@@ -671,14 +671,11 @@ def test_retrieve_config_keys():
     """
     with conf_vars(
         {
-            ("elasticsearch_configs", "use_ssl"): "True",
             ("elasticsearch_configs", "http_compress"): "False",
             ("elasticsearch_configs", "timeout"): "10",
         }
     ):
         args_from_config = get_es_kwargs_from_config().keys()
-        # use_ssl is removed from config
-        assert "use_ssl" not in args_from_config
         # verify_certs comes from default config value
         assert "verify_certs" in args_from_config
         # timeout comes from config provided value
@@ -698,8 +695,6 @@ def test_retrieve_retry_on_timeout():
         }
     ):
         args_from_config = get_es_kwargs_from_config().keys()
-        # use_ssl is removed from config
-        assert "retry_timeout" not in args_from_config
         # verify_certs comes from default config value
         assert "retry_on_timeout" in args_from_config