diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 1463e400c94..0ba092e2a21 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ Release 2.5.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-2125. Changed ProportionalCapacityPreemptionPolicy to log CSV in debug
     level. (Wangda Tan via jianhe)
 
+    YARN-2159. Better logging in SchedulerNode#allocateContainer.
+    (Ray Chiang via kasha)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES 
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/SchedulerNode.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/SchedulerNode.java
index 9fb8d23effb..7074059ecf4 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/SchedulerNode.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/scheduler/SchedulerNode.java
@@ -130,9 +130,9 @@ public abstract class SchedulerNode {
 
     LOG.info("Assigned container " + container.getId() + " of capacity "
         + container.getResource() + " on host " + rmNode.getNodeAddress()
-        + ", which currently has " + numContainers + " containers, "
+        + ", which has " + numContainers + " containers, "
         + getUsedResource() + " used and " + getAvailableResource()
-        + " available");
+        + " available after allocation");
   }
 
   /**