diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index f10ba51d52..a33315e075 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -288,6 +288,9 @@ Release 2.4.0 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-5693. Restore MRv1 behavior for log flush (Gera Shegalov via
     jlowe)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-5723. MR AM container log can be truncated or empty.
+    (Mohammad Kamrul Islam via kasha)
+
 Release 2.3.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/MRAppMaster.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/MRAppMaster.java
index 2bae130a4e..969e2fa7a1 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/MRAppMaster.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/MRAppMaster.java
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.service.CompositeService;
 import org.apache.hadoop.service.Service;
 import org.apache.hadoop.service.ServiceOperations;
+import org.apache.hadoop.util.ExitUtil;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.ReflectionUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.ShutdownHookManager;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.StringInterner;
@@ -1405,9 +1406,7 @@ public static void main(String[] args) {
       initAndStartAppMaster(appMaster, conf, jobUserName);
     } catch (Throwable t) {
       LOG.fatal("Error starting MRAppMaster", t);
-      System.exit(1);
-    } finally {
-      LogManager.shutdown();
+      ExitUtil.terminate(1, t);
     }
   }
 
@@ -1483,4 +1482,11 @@ public Object run() throws Exception {
       }
     });
   }
+
+  @Override
+  protected void serviceStop() throws Exception {
+    super.serviceStop();
+    LogManager.shutdown();
+  }
+
 }