diff --git a/flyteplugins/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/ray/ray.go b/flyteplugins/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/ray/ray.go
index bc4d22bd02..7dfbb5850d 100644
--- a/flyteplugins/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/ray/ray.go
+++ b/flyteplugins/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/ray/ray.go
@@ -371,6 +371,22 @@ func injectLogsSidecar(primaryContainer *v1.Container, podSpec *v1.PodSpec) {
 	podSpec.Containers = append(podSpec.Containers, *sidecar)
 }
 
+// logNoiseDisablingEnvVars turns off Ray's terminal-oriented log decorations (ANSI-colored log
+// prefixes and Ray Data progress bars), which are unreadable once collected from a non-interactive
+// pod. Shared by the head and worker builders to keep the two in sync.
+func logNoiseDisablingEnvVars() []v1.EnvVar {
+	return []v1.EnvVar{
+		{
+			Name:  "RAY_COLOR_PREFIX",
+			Value: "0",
+		},
+		{
+			Name:  "RAY_DATA_DISABLE_PROGRESS_BARS",
+			Value: "1",
+		},
+	}
+}
+
 func buildHeadPodTemplate(primaryContainer *v1.Container, basePodSpec *v1.PodSpec, objectMeta *metav1.ObjectMeta, taskCtx pluginsCore.TaskExecutionContext, spec *plugins.HeadGroupSpec) (v1.PodTemplateSpec, error) {
 	// Some configs are copy from  https://github.com/ray-project/kuberay/blob/b72e6bdcd9b8c77a9dc6b5da8560910f3a0c3ffd/apiserver/pkg/util/cluster.go#L97
 	// They should always be the same, so we could hard code here.
@@ -386,6 +402,7 @@ func buildHeadPodTemplate(primaryContainer *v1.Container, basePodSpec *v1.PodSpe
 			},
 		},
 	}
+	envs = append(envs, logNoiseDisablingEnvVars()...)
 
 	primaryContainer.Args = []string{}
 
@@ -512,6 +529,7 @@ func buildWorkerPodTemplate(primaryContainer *v1.Container, basePodSpec *v1.PodS
 			},
 		},
 	}
+	envs = append(envs, logNoiseDisablingEnvVars()...)
 
 	primaryContainer.Env = append(primaryContainer.Env, envs...)
 
diff --git a/flyteplugins/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/ray/ray_test.go b/flyteplugins/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/ray/ray_test.go
index ce0b0c9b28..c8ab6e3815 100644
--- a/flyteplugins/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/ray/ray_test.go
+++ b/flyteplugins/go/tasks/plugins/k8s/ray/ray_test.go
@@ -350,6 +350,56 @@ func TestBuildResourceRayEntrypointPreservesEmptyArgs(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Contains(t, rayJobObj.Spec.Entrypoint, "vars '' resolver")
 }
 
+func TestBuildResourceRayDisablesLogNoise(t *testing.T) {
+	rayJobResourceHandler := rayJobResourceHandler{}
+	assert.NoError(t, config.SetK8sPluginConfig(&config.K8sPluginConfig{}))
+
+	taskTemplate := dummyRayTaskTemplate("ray-id", dummyRayCustomObj())
+	rayCtx := dummyRayTaskContext(taskTemplate, resourceRequirements, nil, "", serviceAccount)
+	r, err := rayJobResourceHandler.BuildResource(context.TODO(), rayCtx)
+	assert.Nil(t, err)
+	require.NotNil(t, r)
+
+	rayJob, ok := r.(*rayv1.RayJob)
+	require.True(t, ok)
+	require.NotEmpty(t, rayJob.Spec.RayClusterSpec.WorkerGroupSpecs)
+
+	// Select by container name: the vars belong on the Ray container, not on an injected sidecar.
+	envByContainer := func(containers []corev1.Container, name string) map[string]string {
+		for _, cnt := range containers {
+			if cnt.Name != name {
+				continue
+			}
+			env := make(map[string]string, len(cnt.Env))
+			for _, e := range cnt.Env {
+				env[e.Name] = e.Value
+			}
+			return env
+		}
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	headEnv := envByContainer(rayJob.Spec.RayClusterSpec.HeadGroupSpec.Template.Spec.Containers, "ray-head")
+	workerEnv := envByContainer(rayJob.Spec.RayClusterSpec.WorkerGroupSpecs[0].Template.Spec.Containers, "ray-worker")
+	require.NotNil(t, headEnv)
+	require.NotNil(t, workerEnv)
+
+	fixtures := []struct {
+		name  string
+		value string
+	}{
+		{name: "RAY_COLOR_PREFIX", value: "0"},
+		{name: "RAY_DATA_DISABLE_PROGRESS_BARS", value: "1"},
+	}
+
+	for _, f := range fixtures {
+		t.Run(f.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			assert.Equal(t, f.value, headEnv[f.name], "head container")
+			assert.Equal(t, f.value, workerEnv[f.name], "worker container")
+		})
+	}
+}
+
 func TestBuildPodTemplate(t *testing.T) {
 	taskTemplate := dummyRayTaskTemplate("id", dummyRayCustomObj())
 	resources := &corev1.ResourceRequirements{