diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 5fe82751fba..d7cf30f4623 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ Release 2.0.1-alpha - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-2988. Improve error message when storage directory lock fails
     (Miomir Boljanovic via harsh)
 
+    HDFS-2391. Newly set BalancerBandwidth value is not displayed anywhere.
+    (harsh)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-2982. Startup performance suffers when there are many edit log
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BPOfferService.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BPOfferService.java
index 69efdd0a3bc..75ee2a43a6a 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BPOfferService.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/server/datanode/BPOfferService.java
@@ -615,6 +615,9 @@ class BPOfferService {
       if (bandwidth > 0) {
         DataXceiverServer dxcs =
                      (DataXceiverServer) dn.dataXceiverServer.getRunnable();
+        LOG.info("Updating balance throttler bandwidth from "
+            + dxcs.balanceThrottler.getBandwidth() + " bytes/s "
+            + "to: " + bandwidth + " bytes/s.");
         dxcs.balanceThrottler.setBandwidth(bandwidth);
       }
       break;