diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 7d1dce459ff..ec030b2ba76 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ Release 2.0.3-alpha - Unreleased
     YARN-181. Fixed eclipse settings broken by capacity-scheduler.xml move via
     YARN-140. (Siddharth Seth via vinodkv)
 
+    YARN-169. Update log4j.appender.EventCounter to use
+    org.apache.hadoop.log.metrics.EventCounter (Anthony Rojas via tomwhite)
+
 Release 2.0.2-alpha - 2012-09-07 
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/resources/container-log4j.properties b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/resources/container-log4j.properties
index ea485741951..7c859535c88 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/resources/container-log4j.properties
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/resources/container-log4j.properties
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ log4j.appender.CLA.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ISO8601} %p [%t] %c: %m%n
 # Event Counter Appender
 # Sends counts of logging messages at different severity levels to Hadoop Metrics.
 #
-log4j.appender.EventCounter=org.apache.hadoop.metrics.jvm.EventCounter
+log4j.appender.EventCounter=org.apache.hadoop.log.metrics.EventCounter