diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/services/AbfsRestOperation.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/services/AbfsRestOperation.java
index 936267aa50..88d5ad0f0a 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/services/AbfsRestOperation.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/services/AbfsRestOperation.java
@@ -248,8 +248,12 @@ private boolean executeHttpOperation(final int retryCount) throws AzureBlobFileS
 
       httpOperation.processResponse(buffer, bufferOffset, bufferLength);
       incrementCounter(AbfsStatistic.GET_RESPONSES, 1);
-      incrementCounter(AbfsStatistic.BYTES_RECEIVED,
-          httpOperation.getBytesReceived());
+      //Only increment bytesReceived counter when the status code is 2XX.
+      if (httpOperation.getStatusCode() >= HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK
+          && httpOperation.getStatusCode() <= HttpURLConnection.HTTP_PARTIAL) {
+        incrementCounter(AbfsStatistic.BYTES_RECEIVED,
+            httpOperation.getBytesReceived());
+      }
     } catch (IOException ex) {
       if (ex instanceof UnknownHostException) {
         LOG.warn(String.format("Unknown host name: %s. Retrying to resolve the host name...", httpOperation.getUrl().getHost()));
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/ITestAbfsNetworkStatistics.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/ITestAbfsNetworkStatistics.java
index 9d76fb0022..f6ee7a90fa 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/ITestAbfsNetworkStatistics.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-azure/src/test/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/azurebfs/ITestAbfsNetworkStatistics.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataInputStream;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream;
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileAlreadyExistsException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.io.IOUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.azurebfs.services.AbfsOutputStream;
@@ -291,4 +292,31 @@ public void testAbfsHttpResponseStatistics() throws IOException {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Testing bytes_received counter value when a response failure occurs.
+   */
+  @Test
+  public void testAbfsHttpResponseFailure() throws IOException {
+    describe("Test to check the values of bytes received counter when a "
+        + "response is failed");
+
+    AzureBlobFileSystem fs = getFileSystem();
+    Path responseFailurePath = path(getMethodName());
+    Map<String, Long> metricMap;
+    FSDataOutputStream out = null;
+
+    try {
+      //create an empty file
+      out = fs.create(responseFailurePath);
+      //Re-creating the file again on same path with false overwrite, this
+      // would cause a response failure with status code 409.
+      out = fs.create(responseFailurePath, false);
+    } catch (FileAlreadyExistsException faee) {
+      metricMap = fs.getInstrumentationMap();
+      // Assert after catching the 409 error to check the counter values.
+      assertAbfsStatistics(AbfsStatistic.BYTES_RECEIVED, 0, metricMap);
+    } finally {
+      IOUtils.cleanupWithLogger(LOG, out);
+    }
+  }
 }