diff --git a/flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/scheduler/ExecutionGraphHandler.java b/flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/scheduler/ExecutionGraphHandler.java
index 4d03468272be5..5078153ca6e92 100644
--- a/flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/scheduler/ExecutionGraphHandler.java
+++ b/flink-runtime/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/runtime/scheduler/ExecutionGraphHandler.java
@@ -86,8 +86,7 @@ public void reportInitializationMetrics(
                 executionGraph.getCheckpointCoordinatorConfiguration();
         if (checkpointConfig == null || !checkpointConfig.isCheckpointingEnabled()) {
             // TODO: Consider to support reporting initialization stats without checkpointing
-            log.debug(
-                    "Ignoring reportInitializationMetrics if checkpoint coordinator is not present");
+            log.debug("Ignoring reportInitializationMetrics if checkpointing is not present");
             return;
         }