diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
index d9006176f9..707300a17a 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -404,6 +404,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
    YARN-4031. Add JvmPauseMonitor to ApplicationHistoryServer and
    WebAppProxyServer (djp via rkanter)
 
+    YARN-4057. If ContainersMonitor is not enabled, only print
+    related log info one time. (Jun Gong via zxu)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     YARN-3339. TestDockerContainerExecutor should pull a single image and not
diff --git a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/monitor/ContainersMonitorImpl.java b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/monitor/ContainersMonitorImpl.java
index 89dc980c70..afb51ad28b 100644
--- a/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/monitor/ContainersMonitorImpl.java
+++ b/hadoop-yarn-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-nodemanager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/nodemanager/containermanager/monitor/ContainersMonitorImpl.java
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ public class ContainersMonitorImpl extends AbstractService implements
 
   private boolean pmemCheckEnabled;
   private boolean vmemCheckEnabled;
+  private boolean containersMonitorEnabled;
 
   private long maxVCoresAllottedForContainers;
 
@@ -153,6 +154,9 @@ protected void serviceInit(Configuration conf) throws Exception {
     LOG.info("Physical memory check enabled: " + pmemCheckEnabled);
     LOG.info("Virtual memory check enabled: " + vmemCheckEnabled);
 
+    containersMonitorEnabled = isEnabled();
+    LOG.info("ContainersMonitor enabled: " + containersMonitorEnabled);
+
     nodeCpuPercentageForYARN =
         NodeManagerHardwareUtils.getNodeCpuPercentage(conf);
 
@@ -205,7 +209,7 @@ private boolean isEnabled() {
 
   @Override
   protected void serviceStart() throws Exception {
-    if (this.isEnabled()) {
+    if (containersMonitorEnabled) {
       this.monitoringThread.start();
     }
     super.serviceStart();
@@ -213,7 +217,7 @@ protected void serviceStart() throws Exception {
 
   @Override
   protected void serviceStop() throws Exception {
-    if (this.isEnabled()) {
+    if (containersMonitorEnabled) {
       this.monitoringThread.interrupt();
       try {
         this.monitoringThread.join();
@@ -648,7 +652,7 @@ public void setContainersUtilization(ResourceUtilization utilization) {
   @Override
   public void handle(ContainersMonitorEvent monitoringEvent) {
 
-    if (!isEnabled()) {
+    if (!containersMonitorEnabled) {
       return;
     }