diff --git a/hbase-rsgroup/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rsgroup/RSGroupBasedLoadBalancer.java b/hbase-rsgroup/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rsgroup/RSGroupBasedLoadBalancer.java
index b5dd7438afb..c42c46d108e 100644
--- a/hbase-rsgroup/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rsgroup/RSGroupBasedLoadBalancer.java
+++ b/hbase-rsgroup/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/rsgroup/RSGroupBasedLoadBalancer.java
@@ -391,8 +391,8 @@ public class RSGroupBasedLoadBalancer implements RSGroupableBalancer, LoadBalanc
         HBASE_GROUP_LOADBALANCER_CLASS,
         StochasticLoadBalancer.class, LoadBalancer.class);
     internalBalancer = ReflectionUtils.newInstance(balancerKlass, config);
-    internalBalancer.setClusterStatus(clusterStatus);
     internalBalancer.setMasterServices(masterServices);
+    internalBalancer.setClusterStatus(clusterStatus);
     internalBalancer.setConf(config);
     internalBalancer.initialize();
   }
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/HMaster.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/HMaster.java
index a8329e3ca9e..eac2fa22f8d 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/HMaster.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/HMaster.java
@@ -742,8 +742,8 @@ public class HMaster extends HRegionServer implements MasterServices {
     }
 
     //initialize load balancer
-    this.balancer.setClusterStatus(getClusterStatus());
     this.balancer.setMasterServices(this);
+    this.balancer.setClusterStatus(getClusterStatus());
     this.balancer.initialize();
 
     // Check if master is shutting down because of some issue
diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/balancer/StochasticLoadBalancer.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/balancer/StochasticLoadBalancer.java
index 345fbf350b1..b02aac1aadd 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/balancer/StochasticLoadBalancer.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/master/balancer/StochasticLoadBalancer.java
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ public class StochasticLoadBalancer extends BaseLoadBalancer {
 
       updateMetricsSize(tablesCount * (functionsCount + 1)); // +1 for overall
     } catch (Exception e) {
-      LOG.error("failed to get the size of all tables, exception = " + e.getMessage());
+      LOG.error("failed to get the size of all tables", e);
     }
   }