diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/commitlog/CommitLog.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/commitlog/CommitLog.java
index d117dbc5d1..56d9405c97 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/commitlog/CommitLog.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/commitlog/CommitLog.java
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ public class CommitLog
                 }
             }
             reader.close();
-            logger.info("Finished reading " + file + " for recovery");
+            logger.info("Finished reading " + file);
         }
 
         // wait for all the writes to finish on the mutation stage