diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index aecec8a3929..279798f94f3 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -390,6 +390,8 @@ Release 0.20.0 - Unreleased
                command fails
    HBASE-1515  Address part of config option hbase.regionserver unnecessary
    HBASE-1532  UI Visibility into ZooKeeper
+   HBASE-1572  Zookeeper log4j property set to ERROR on default, same output
+               when cluster working and not working (Jon Gray via Stack)
 
   OPTIMIZATIONS
    HBASE-1412  Change values for delete column and column family in KeyValue
diff --git a/conf/log4j.properties b/conf/log4j.properties
index ed8fab844c7..c550d711f8c 100644
--- a/conf/log4j.properties
+++ b/conf/log4j.properties
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ log4j.appender.console.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{yy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss} %p %c{2}:
 
 # Custom Logging levels
 
-log4j.logger.org.apache.zookeeper=ERROR
+log4j.logger.org.apache.zookeeper=INFO
 #log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSNamesystem=DEBUG
 #log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.hbase=DEBUG
 #log4j.logger.org.apache.hadoop.dfs=DEBUG