diff --git a/railties/lib/rails/rack/logger.rb b/railties/lib/rails/rack/logger.rb
index ef4cdcb080c4e11568c115a2e402b325180365c8..3b357986790cc1dde3d67d86d4d1966a5e5620ac 100644
--- a/railties/lib/rails/rack/logger.rb
+++ b/railties/lib/rails/rack/logger.rb
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ class Logger < ActiveSupport::LogSubscriber
       def initialize(app, taggers = nil)
         @app          = app
         @taggers      = taggers || []
-        @instrumenter = ActiveSupport::Notifications.instrumenter
       end
 
       def call(env)
@@ -33,7 +32,8 @@ def call_app(request, env)
           logger.debug ''
         end
 
-        @instrumenter.start 'request.action_dispatch', request: request
+        instrumenter = ActiveSupport::Notifications.instrumenter
+        instrumenter.start 'request.action_dispatch', request: request
         logger.info started_request_message(request)
         resp = @app.call(env)
         resp[2] = ::Rack::BodyProxy.new(resp[2]) { finish(request) }
@@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ def compute_tags(request)
       private
 
       def finish(request)
-        @instrumenter.finish 'request.action_dispatch', request: request
+        instrumenter = ActiveSupport::Notifications.instrumenter
+        instrumenter.finish 'request.action_dispatch', request: request
       end
 
       def development?