From 232cdeef7e3a0c45e20f767f220cb34b302bdd68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yury Gribkov <yury.gribkov@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2025 12:11:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Silence non-critical PayloadTagsProcessor parsing exception
 alert

---
 .../datadog/trace/core/tagprocessor/PayloadTagsProcessor.java | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/dd-trace-core/src/main/java/datadog/trace/core/tagprocessor/PayloadTagsProcessor.java b/dd-trace-core/src/main/java/datadog/trace/core/tagprocessor/PayloadTagsProcessor.java
index 87544b62aeb..c04c8239e44 100644
--- a/dd-trace-core/src/main/java/datadog/trace/core/tagprocessor/PayloadTagsProcessor.java
+++ b/dd-trace-core/src/main/java/datadog/trace/core/tagprocessor/PayloadTagsProcessor.java
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 package datadog.trace.core.tagprocessor;
 
+import static datadog.trace.api.telemetry.LogCollector.EXCLUDE_TELEMETRY;
 import static datadog.trace.util.json.JsonPathParser.parseJsonPaths;
 
 import datadog.trace.api.Config;
@@ -262,7 +263,8 @@ public boolean keepCollectingTags() {
 
     @Override
     public void expandValueFailed(PathCursor path, Exception exception) {
-      log.debug("Failed to expand value at path '{}'", path.toString(""), exception);
+      log.debug(
+          EXCLUDE_TELEMETRY, "Failed to expand value at path '{}'", path.toString(""), exception);
     }
   }
 }