diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java
index 7bd3a15c4bf..c657d20709d 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/io/retry/RetryInvocationHandler.java
@@ -351,9 +351,11 @@ private RetryInfo handleException(final Method method, final int callId,
     if (retryInfo.isFail()) {
       // fail.
       if (retryInfo.action.reason != null) {
-        LOG.warn("Exception while invoking call #" + callId + " "
-            + proxyDescriptor.getProxyInfo().getString(method.getName())
-            + ". Not retrying because " + retryInfo.action.reason, e);
+        if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
+          LOG.debug("Exception while invoking call #" + callId + " "
+              + proxyDescriptor.getProxyInfo().getString(method.getName())
+              + ". Not retrying because " + retryInfo.action.reason, e);
+        }
       }
       throw e;
     }