diff --git a/amazon-kinesis-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/kinesis/lifecycle/ProcessTask.java b/amazon-kinesis-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/kinesis/lifecycle/ProcessTask.java
index fb398cda..c02bb339 100644
--- a/amazon-kinesis-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/kinesis/lifecycle/ProcessTask.java
+++ b/amazon-kinesis-client/src/main/java/software/amazon/kinesis/lifecycle/ProcessTask.java
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ public class ProcessTask implements ConsumerTask {
         } catch (Exception e) {
             log.error("ShardId {}: Application processRecords() threw an exception when processing shard ",
                     shardInfoId, e);
-            log.error("ShardId {}: Skipping over the following data records: {}", shardInfoId, records);
+            log.debug("ShardId {}: Skipping over the following data records: {}", shardInfoId, records);
         } finally {
             MetricsUtil.addLatency(scope, RECORD_PROCESSOR_PROCESS_RECORDS_METRIC, startTime, MetricsLevel.SUMMARY);
             MetricsUtil.endScope(scope);