diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index 903de84937d..44a6c8c942f 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -208,6 +208,8 @@ Release 2.4.0 - UNRELEASED
     YARN-1567. In Fair Scheduler, allow empty queues to change between leaf and
     parent on allocation file reload (Sandy Ryza)
 
+    YARN-1616. RMFatalEventDispatcher should log the cause of the event (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/ResourceManager.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/ResourceManager.java
index 83d7f9df833..a98be13e3bb 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/ResourceManager.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-resourcemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/resourcemanager/ResourceManager.java
@@ -607,7 +607,7 @@ public class ResourceManager extends CompositeService implements Recoverable {
     @Override
     public void handle(RMFatalEvent event) {
       LOG.fatal("Received a " + RMFatalEvent.class.getName() + " of type " +
-          event.getType().name());
+          event.getType().name() + ". Cause:\n" + event.getCause());
 
       if (event.getType() == RMFatalEventType.STATE_STORE_FENCED) {
         LOG.info("RMStateStore has been fenced");