diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index ce89380626..4e093a756e 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -354,6 +354,9 @@ Release 2.3.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-9470. eliminate duplicate FQN tests in different Hadoop modules
     (Ivan A. Veselovsky via daryn)
 
+    HADOOP-9494. Excluded auto-generated and examples code from clover reports
+    (Andrey Klochkov via jeagles)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HADOOP-9748. Reduce blocking on UGI.ensureInitialized (daryn)
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index dff990e24b..6983ce699b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -556,6 +556,19 @@ xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xs
               <generateHtml>${cloverGenHtml}</generateHtml>
               <generateXml>${cloverGenXml}</generateXml>
               <generateHistorical>${cloverGenHistorical}</generateHistorical>
+              <excludes>
+                <exclude>**/examples/**/*.java</exclude>
+                <exclude>**/hamlet/*.java</exclude>
+                <exclude>**/ha/proto/*.java</exclude>
+                <exclude>**/protocol/proto/*.java</exclude>
+                <exclude>**/compiler/generated/*.java</exclude>
+                <exclude>**/protobuf/*.java</exclude>
+                <exclude>**/v2/proto/*.java</exclude>
+                <exclude>**/yarn/proto/*.java</exclude>
+                <exclude>**/security/proto/*.java</exclude>
+                <exclude>**/tools/proto/*.java</exclude>
+                <exclude>**/hs/proto/*.java</exclude>
+              </excludes>
             </configuration>
             <executions>
               <execution>