diff --git a/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/7_4_0/5959-remove-overly-verbose-log.yaml b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/7_4_0/5959-remove-overly-verbose-log.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..257b5243e30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hapi-fhir-docs/src/main/resources/ca/uhn/hapi/fhir/changelog/7_4_0/5959-remove-overly-verbose-log.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+type: fix
+issue: 5959
+title: "An overly verbose log in the JPA server about deleting stale searches has been reduced to DEBUG level."
diff --git a/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/search/cache/DatabaseSearchCacheSvcImpl.java b/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/search/cache/DatabaseSearchCacheSvcImpl.java
index a890d119281..4e89ea5fd6a 100644
--- a/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/search/cache/DatabaseSearchCacheSvcImpl.java
+++ b/hapi-fhir-jpaserver-base/src/main/java/ca/uhn/fhir/jpa/search/cache/DatabaseSearchCacheSvcImpl.java
@@ -220,7 +220,6 @@ public class DatabaseSearchCacheSvcImpl implements ISearchCacheSvc {
 			// flush to force Hibernate to actually get a connection from the pool
 			myEntityManager.flush();
 			// get our connection from the underlying Hibernate session, and commit
-			//noinspection resource
 			myEntityManager.unwrap(Session.class).doWork(Connection::commit);
 		}
 
@@ -252,17 +251,19 @@ public class DatabaseSearchCacheSvcImpl implements ISearchCacheSvc {
 			flushSearchAndIncludeDeletes();
 
 			int deletedCount = deletedCounter.get();
-
-			ourLog.info("Deleted {} expired searches", deletedCount);
+			if (deletedCount > 0) {
+				ourLog.debug("Deleted {} expired searches", deletedCount);
+			}
 
 			return deletedCount;
 		}
 
 		/**
 		 * Schedule theSearchPid for deletion assuming it has theNumberOfResults SearchResults attached.
-		 *
+		 * <p>
 		 * We accumulate a batch of search pids for deletion, and then do a bulk DML as we reach a threshold number
 		 * of SearchResults.
+		 * </p>
 		 *
 		 * @param theSearchPid pk of the Search
 		 * @param theNumberOfResults the number of SearchResults attached