diff --git a/openstack/common/log.py b/openstack/common/log.py
index 57934347..d710a398 100644
--- a/openstack/common/log.py
+++ b/openstack/common/log.py
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ from oslo.config import cfg
 import six
 from six import moves
 
+_PY26 = sys.version_info[0:2] == (2, 6)
+
 from openstack.common.gettextutils import _
 from openstack.common import importutils
 from openstack.common import jsonutils
@@ -227,6 +229,15 @@ class BaseLoggerAdapter(logging.LoggerAdapter):
     def audit(self, msg, *args, **kwargs):
         self.log(logging.AUDIT, msg, *args, **kwargs)
 
+    def isEnabledFor(self, level):
+        if _PY26:
+            # This method was added in python 2.7 (and it does the exact
+            # same logic, so we need to do the exact same logic so that
+            # python 2.6 has this capability as well).
+            return self.logger.isEnabledFor(level)
+        else:
+            return super(BaseLoggerAdapter, self).isEnabledFor(level)
+
 
 class LazyAdapter(BaseLoggerAdapter):
     def __init__(self, name='unknown', version='unknown'):
diff --git a/tests/unit/test_log.py b/tests/unit/test_log.py
index a50578f5..08f22683 100644
--- a/tests/unit/test_log.py
+++ b/tests/unit/test_log.py
@@ -258,11 +258,17 @@ class LogLevelTestCase(test_base.BaseTestCase):
         self.CONF = self.useFixture(config.Config()).conf
         levels = self.CONF.default_log_levels
         levels.append("nova-test=AUDIT")
+        levels.append("nova-not-debug=WARN")
         self.config = self.useFixture(config.Config()).config
         self.config(default_log_levels=levels,
                     verbose=True)
         log.setup('testing')
         self.log = log.getLogger('nova-test')
+        self.log_no_debug = log.getLogger('nova-not-debug')
+
+    def test_is_enabled_for(self):
+        self.assertTrue(self.log.isEnabledFor(logging.AUDIT))
+        self.assertFalse(self.log_no_debug.isEnabledFor(logging.DEBUG))
 
     def test_has_level_from_flags(self):
         self.assertEqual(logging.AUDIT, self.log.logger.getEffectiveLevel())