diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 08fca563a87..684e92a79d9 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-3241. FairScheduler handles "invalid" queue names inconsistently. 
     (Zhihai Xu via kasha)
 
+    YARN-3383. AdminService should use "warn" instead of "info" to log exception 
+    when operation fails. (Li Lu via wangda)
+
 Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/AdminService.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/AdminService.java
index 22b92c269e2..12714de2e89 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/AdminService.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/AdminService.java
@@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ private void checkRMStatus(String user, String argName, String msg)
 
   private YarnException logAndWrapException(Exception exception, String user,
       String argName, String msg) throws YarnException {
-    LOG.info("Exception " + msg, exception);
+    LOG.warn("Exception " + msg, exception);
     RMAuditLogger.logFailure(user, argName, "", 
         "AdminService", "Exception " + msg);
     return RPCUtil.getRemoteException(exception);