diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index d0e4537bc5c..b0de132b87c 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -176,6 +176,9 @@ New Features
 * SOLR-5682: Make the admin InfoHandler more pluggable / derivable.
   (Greg Chanan via Mark Miller)
 
+* SOLR-5672: Add logParamsList parameter to support reduced logging.
+  (Christine Poerschke via Mark Miller)
+
 Bug Fixes
 ----------------------
 
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/SolrCore.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/SolrCore.java
index 8770edd8005..44d0cb218d5 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/SolrCore.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/SolrCore.java
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.Writer;
 import java.lang.reflect.Constructor;
 import java.net.URL;
+import java.util.Arrays;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collection;
 import java.util.Collections;
@@ -1932,7 +1933,14 @@ public final class SolrCore implements SolrInfoMBean {
     // are expecting them during handleRequest
     toLog.add("webapp", req.getContext().get("webapp"));
     toLog.add("path", req.getContext().get("path"));
-    toLog.add("params", "{" + req.getParamString() + "}");
+
+    final SolrParams params = req.getParams();
+    final String lpList = params.get(CommonParams.LOG_PARAMS_LIST);
+    if (lpList == null) {
+      toLog.add("params", "{" + req.getParamString() + "}");
+    } else if (lpList.length() > 0) {
+      toLog.add("params", "{" + params.toFilteredSolrParams(Arrays.asList(lpList.split(","))).toString() + "}");
+    }
   }
 
   /** Put status, QTime, and possibly request handler and params, in the response header */
diff --git a/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/common/params/CommonParams.java b/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/common/params/CommonParams.java
index c7d1f5f20b9..396e7992632 100644
--- a/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/common/params/CommonParams.java
+++ b/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/common/params/CommonParams.java
@@ -181,6 +181,9 @@ public interface CommonParams {
     }
   };
 
+  /** which parameters to log (if not supplied all parameters will be logged) **/
+  public static final String LOG_PARAMS_LIST = "logParamsList";
+
   public static final String EXCLUDE = "ex";
   public static final String TAG = "tag";
   public static final String TERMS = "terms";
diff --git a/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/common/params/SolrParams.java b/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/common/params/SolrParams.java
index bf91cb39255..02501d2259c 100644
--- a/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/common/params/SolrParams.java
+++ b/solr/solrj/src/java/org/apache/solr/common/params/SolrParams.java
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ package org.apache.solr.common.params;
 import java.io.Serializable;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
@@ -298,6 +299,21 @@ public abstract class SolrParams implements Serializable {
     return new MapSolrParams(map);
   }
   
+  /** Create filtered SolrParams. */
+  public SolrParams toFilteredSolrParams(List<String> names) {
+    NamedList<String> nl = new NamedList<String>();
+    for (Iterator<String> it = getParameterNamesIterator(); it.hasNext();) {
+      final String name = it.next();
+      if (names.contains(name)) {
+        final String[] values = getParams(name);
+        for (String value : values) {
+          nl.add(name, value);
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    return toSolrParams(nl);
+  }
+  
   /** Convert this to a NamedList */
   public NamedList<Object> toNamedList() {
     final SimpleOrderedMap<Object> result = new SimpleOrderedMap<Object>();
@@ -315,11 +331,3 @@ public abstract class SolrParams implements Serializable {
     return result;
   }
 }
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