diff --git a/java/google/registry/config/YamlUtils.java b/java/google/registry/config/YamlUtils.java
index 255d00e6d..218f55fb1 100644
--- a/java/google/registry/config/YamlUtils.java
+++ b/java/google/registry/config/YamlUtils.java
@@ -92,9 +92,9 @@ public final class YamlUtils {
     Optional<Map<String, Object>> customMap = loadAsMap(yaml, customYaml);
     if (customMap.isPresent()) {
       yamlMap = mergeMaps(yamlMap, customMap.get());
-      logger.info("Successfully loaded environment configuration YAML file.");
+      logger.fine("Successfully loaded environment configuration YAML file.");
     } else {
-      logger.info("Ignoring empty environment configuration YAML file.");
+      logger.warning("Ignoring empty environment configuration YAML file.");
     }
     return yaml.dump(yamlMap);
   }
diff --git a/java/google/registry/tools/logging.properties b/java/google/registry/tools/logging.properties
index cc966263b..f724c987e 100644
--- a/java/google/registry/tools/logging.properties
+++ b/java/google/registry/tools/logging.properties
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 handlers = java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler
 .level = INFO
+com.google.wrappers.base.GoogleInit.level = WARNING
+com.google.monitoring.metrics.MetricRegistryImpl.level = WARNING