diff --git a/lib/fluent/command/debug.rb b/lib/fluent/command/debug.rb
index 254d6b59f0..9643f24bb6 100644
--- a/lib/fluent/command/debug.rb
+++ b/lib/fluent/command/debug.rb
@@ -62,12 +62,13 @@
 
 require 'fluent/log'
 require 'fluent/engine'
+require 'fluent/config'
 require 'fluent/system_config'
 
-include Fluent::SystemConfig::Mixin
-
 $log = Fluent::Log.new(STDERR, Fluent::Log::LEVEL_TRACE)
-Fluent::Engine.init(system_config)
+conf = Fluent::Config.parse('', 'fluent-debug.conf', '', true)
+system_conf = Fluent::SystemConfig.create(conf)
+Fluent::Engine.init(system_conf)
 
 DRb::DRbObject.class_eval do
   undef_method :methods