diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/WebHdfsFileSystem.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/WebHdfsFileSystem.java
index a75e78f98e..cfda3fe749 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/WebHdfsFileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/WebHdfsFileSystem.java
@@ -154,11 +154,11 @@ public class WebHdfsFileSystem extends FileSystem
         HdfsClientConfigKeys.DFS_WEBHDFS_OAUTH_ENABLED_DEFAULT);
 
     if(isOAuth) {
-      LOG.info("Enabling OAuth2 in WebHDFS");
+      LOG.debug("Enabling OAuth2 in WebHDFS");
       connectionFactory = URLConnectionFactory
           .newOAuth2URLConnectionFactory(conf);
     } else {
-      LOG.info("Not enabling OAuth2 in WebHDFS");
+      LOG.debug("Not enabling OAuth2 in WebHDFS");
       connectionFactory = URLConnectionFactory
           .newDefaultURLConnectionFactory(conf);
     }
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 6da3cffcde..4b310dd939 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -920,6 +920,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
 
     HDFS-8953. DataNode Metrics logging (Kanaka Kumar Avvaru via vinayakumarb)
 
+    HDFS-9082. Change the log level in WebHdfsFileSystem.initialize() from INFO
+    to DEBUG. (Santhosh Nayak via cnauroth)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-8026. Trace FSOutputSummer#writeChecksumChunks rather than