diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/BigtableChannelPrimer.java b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/BigtableChannelPrimer.java
index 74f2b28384..7495ca6ceb 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/BigtableChannelPrimer.java
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/BigtableChannelPrimer.java
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ public void onClose(Status status, Metadata trailers) {
       // TODO: Not sure if we should swallow the error here. We are pre-emptively swapping
       // channels if the new
       // channel is bad.
-      LOG.log(Level.WARNING, "failed to prime channel", e);
+      LOG.log(Level.WARNING, "Failed to prime channel", e);
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/BigtableChannelPrimerTest.java b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/BigtableChannelPrimerTest.java
index 03d290ad24..709b482477 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/BigtableChannelPrimerTest.java
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/stub/BigtableChannelPrimerTest.java
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ public PingAndWarmResponse apply(PingAndWarmRequest pingAndWarmRequest) {
 
     assertThat(logHandler.logs).hasSize(1);
     for (LogRecord log : logHandler.logs) {
-      assertThat(log.getMessage()).contains("FAILED_PRECONDITION");
+      assertThat(log.getThrown().getMessage()).contains("FAILED_PRECONDITION");
     }
   }
 
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ public void testChannelErrorsAreLogged() {
 
     assertThat(logHandler.logs).hasSize(1);
     for (LogRecord log : logHandler.logs) {
-      assertThat(log.getMessage()).contains("UnsupportedOperationException");
+      assertThat(log.getThrown()).isInstanceOf(UnsupportedOperationException.class);
     }
   }