diff --git a/cmd/background-newdisks-heal-ops.go b/cmd/background-newdisks-heal-ops.go
index 22bf7b81a..1f74d245e 100644
--- a/cmd/background-newdisks-heal-ops.go
+++ b/cmd/background-newdisks-heal-ops.go
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ func initAutoHeal(ctx context.Context, objAPI ObjectLayer) {
 	globalBackgroundHealState.pushHealLocalDisks(getLocalDisksToHeal()...)
 
 	if drivesToHeal := globalBackgroundHealState.healDriveCount(); drivesToHeal > 0 {
-		logger.Info(fmt.Sprintf("Found drives to heal %d, waiting until %s to heal the content...",
+		logger.Info(fmt.Sprintf("Found drives to heal %d, waiting until %s to heal the content - use 'mc admin heal alias/ --verbose' to check the status",
 			drivesToHeal, defaultMonitorNewDiskInterval))
 
 		// Heal any disk format and metadata early, if possible.
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ func monitorLocalDisksAndHeal(ctx context.Context, z *erasureServerPools, bgSeq
 				// Ensure that reformatting disks is finished
 				bgSeq.queueHealTask(healSource{bucket: nopHeal}, madmin.HealItemMetadata)
 
-				logger.Info(fmt.Sprintf("Found drives to heal %d, proceeding to heal content...",
+				logger.Info(fmt.Sprintf("Found drives to heal %d, proceeding to heal - 'mc admin heal alias/ --verbose' to check the status.",
 					len(healDisks)))
 
 				erasureSetInPoolDisksToHeal = make([]map[int][]StorageAPI, len(z.serverPools))
@@ -404,13 +404,15 @@ func monitorLocalDisksAndHeal(ctx context.Context, z *erasureServerPools, bgSeq
 					go func(setIndex int, disks []StorageAPI) {
 						defer wg.Done()
 						for _, disk := range disks {
-							logger.Info("Healing disk '%v' on %s pool", disk, humanize.Ordinal(i+1))
+							if serverDebugLog {
+								logger.Info("Healing disk '%v' on %s pool", disk, humanize.Ordinal(i+1))
+							}
 
 							// So someone changed the drives underneath, healing tracker missing.
 							tracker, err := loadHealingTracker(ctx, disk)
 							if err != nil {
-								logger.Info("Healing tracker missing on '%s', disk was swapped again on %s pool",
-									disk, humanize.Ordinal(i+1))
+								logger.LogIf(ctx, fmt.Errorf("Healing tracker missing on '%s', disk was swapped again on %s pool: %w",
+									disk, humanize.Ordinal(i+1), err))
 								tracker = newHealingTracker(disk)
 							}
 
@@ -438,12 +440,14 @@ func monitorLocalDisksAndHeal(ctx context.Context, z *erasureServerPools, bgSeq
 								continue
 							}
 
-							logger.Info("Healing disk '%s' on %s pool, %s set complete", disk,
-								humanize.Ordinal(i+1), humanize.Ordinal(setIndex+1))
-							logger.Info("Summary:\n")
-							tracker.printTo(os.Stdout)
+							if serverDebugLog {
+								logger.Info("Healing disk '%s' on %s pool, %s set complete", disk,
+									humanize.Ordinal(i+1), humanize.Ordinal(setIndex+1))
+								logger.Info("Summary:\n")
+								tracker.printTo(os.Stdout)
+								logger.Info("\n")
+							}
 							logger.LogIf(ctx, tracker.delete(ctx))
-							logger.Info("\n")
 
 							// Only upon success pop the healed disk.
 							globalBackgroundHealState.popHealLocalDisks(disk.Endpoint())
diff --git a/cmd/bootstrap-peer-server.go b/cmd/bootstrap-peer-server.go
index 83eb09db8..e0e1dd90f 100644
--- a/cmd/bootstrap-peer-server.go
+++ b/cmd/bootstrap-peer-server.go
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ func verifyServerSystemConfig(ctx context.Context, endpointServerPools EndpointS
 		for _, clnt := range clnts {
 			if err := clnt.Verify(ctx, srcCfg); err != nil {
 				if !isNetworkError(err) {
-					logger.Info(fmt.Errorf("%s has incorrect configuration: %w", clnt.String(), err).Error())
+					logger.LogIf(ctx, fmt.Errorf("%s has incorrect configuration: %w", clnt.String(), err))
 				}
 				offlineEndpoints = append(offlineEndpoints, clnt.String())
 				continue
diff --git a/cmd/common-main.go b/cmd/common-main.go
index ab1f5215d..c6828f95b 100644
--- a/cmd/common-main.go
+++ b/cmd/common-main.go
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ func checkUpdate(mode string) {
 		return
 	}
 
-	logStartupMessage(prepareUpdateMessage("\nRun `mc admin update`", lrTime.Sub(crTime)))
+	logger.Info(prepareUpdateMessage("Run `mc admin update`", lrTime.Sub(crTime)))
 }
 
 func newConfigDirFromCtx(ctx *cli.Context, option string, getDefaultDir func() string) (*ConfigDir, bool) {
@@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ func handleCommonEnvVars() {
 				"         Please use %s and %s",
 				config.EnvAccessKey, config.EnvSecretKey,
 				config.EnvRootUser, config.EnvRootPassword)
-			logStartupMessage(color.RedBold(msg))
+			logger.Info(color.RedBold(msg))
 		}
 		globalActiveCred = cred
 	}
@@ -827,13 +827,6 @@ func handleCommonEnvVars() {
 	}
 }
 
-func logStartupMessage(msg string) {
-	if globalConsoleSys != nil {
-		globalConsoleSys.Send(msg, string(logger.All))
-	}
-	logger.StartupMessage(msg)
-}
-
 func getTLSConfig() (x509Certs []*x509.Certificate, manager *certs.Manager, secureConn bool, err error) {
 	if !(isFile(getPublicCertFile()) && isFile(getPrivateKeyFile())) {
 		return nil, nil, false, nil
diff --git a/cmd/config-current.go b/cmd/config-current.go
index 3e8e922bf..f3f2c677b 100644
--- a/cmd/config-current.go
+++ b/cmd/config-current.go
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ func lookupConfigs(s config.Config, objAPI ObjectLayer) {
 	}
 
 	if globalSTSTLSConfig.InsecureSkipVerify {
-		logger.Info("CRITICAL: enabling %s is not recommended in a production environment", xtls.EnvIdentityTLSSkipVerify)
+		logger.LogIf(ctx, fmt.Errorf("CRITICAL: enabling %s is not recommended in a production environment", xtls.EnvIdentityTLSSkipVerify))
 	}
 
 	globalOpenIDConfig, err = openid.LookupConfig(s[config.IdentityOpenIDSubSys][config.Default],
diff --git a/cmd/config-encrypted.go b/cmd/config-encrypted.go
index 0fdd13133..ec8ee0fd3 100644
--- a/cmd/config-encrypted.go
+++ b/cmd/config-encrypted.go
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ func migrateIAMConfigsEtcdToEncrypted(ctx context.Context, client *etcd.Client)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
-		logger.Info("Attempting to re-encrypt IAM users and policies on etcd with %q (%s)", stat.DefaultKey, stat.Name)
+		logger.Info(fmt.Sprintf("Attempting to re-encrypt IAM users and policies on etcd with %q (%s)", stat.DefaultKey, stat.Name))
 	}
 
 	listCtx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 1*time.Minute)
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ func migrateConfigPrefixToEncrypted(objAPI ObjectLayer, encrypted bool) error {
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
-		logger.Info("Attempting to re-encrypt config, IAM users and policies on MinIO with %q (%s)", stat.DefaultKey, stat.Name)
+		logger.Info(fmt.Sprintf("Attempting to re-encrypt config, IAM users and policies on MinIO with %q (%s)", stat.DefaultKey, stat.Name))
 	}
 
 	var marker string
diff --git a/cmd/disk-cache-backend.go b/cmd/disk-cache-backend.go
index 7cdba615a..8d38a3d6f 100644
--- a/cmd/disk-cache-backend.go
+++ b/cmd/disk-cache-backend.go
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import (
 	"crypto/rand"
 	"encoding/base64"
 	"encoding/hex"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"io/ioutil"
@@ -252,16 +253,17 @@ func (c *diskCache) diskUsageLow() bool {
 // Returns if the disk usage reaches  or exceeds configured cache quota when size is added.
 // If current usage without size exceeds high watermark a GC is automatically queued.
 func (c *diskCache) diskSpaceAvailable(size int64) bool {
+	reqInfo := (&logger.ReqInfo{}).AppendTags("cachePath", c.dir)
+	ctx := logger.SetReqInfo(GlobalContext, reqInfo)
+
 	gcTriggerPct := c.quotaPct * c.highWatermark / 100
 	di, err := disk.GetInfo(c.dir)
 	if err != nil {
-		reqInfo := (&logger.ReqInfo{}).AppendTags("cachePath", c.dir)
-		ctx := logger.SetReqInfo(GlobalContext, reqInfo)
 		logger.LogIf(ctx, err)
 		return false
 	}
 	if di.Total == 0 {
-		logger.Info("diskCache: Received 0 total disk size")
+		logger.LogIf(ctx, errors.New("diskCache: Received 0 total disk size"))
 		return false
 	}
 	usedPercent := float64(di.Used) * 100 / float64(di.Total)
diff --git a/cmd/disk-cache.go b/cmd/disk-cache.go
index 80f5a8890..90ffed4db 100644
--- a/cmd/disk-cache.go
+++ b/cmd/disk-cache.go
@@ -614,7 +614,7 @@ func newCache(config cache.Config) ([]*diskCache, bool, error) {
 }
 
 func (c *cacheObjects) migrateCacheFromV1toV2(ctx context.Context) {
-	logStartupMessage(color.Blue("Cache migration initiated ...."))
+	logger.Info(color.Blue("Cache migration initiated ...."))
 
 	g := errgroup.WithNErrs(len(c.cache))
 	for index, dc := range c.cache {
@@ -643,7 +643,7 @@ func (c *cacheObjects) migrateCacheFromV1toV2(ctx context.Context) {
 
 	// update migration status
 	c.migrating = false
-	logStartupMessage(color.Blue("Cache migration completed successfully."))
+	logger.Info(color.Blue("Cache migration completed successfully."))
 }
 
 // PutObject - caches the uploaded object for single Put operations
diff --git a/cmd/erasure-object.go b/cmd/erasure-object.go
index 522ed5660..71fb01f21 100644
--- a/cmd/erasure-object.go
+++ b/cmd/erasure-object.go
@@ -343,10 +343,8 @@ func (er erasureObjects) getObjectWithFileInfo(ctx context.Context, bucket, obje
 				switch {
 				case errors.Is(err, errFileNotFound):
 					scan = madmin.HealNormalScan
-					logger.Info("Healing required, triggering async heal missing shards for %s", pathJoin(bucket, object, fi.VersionID))
 				case errors.Is(err, errFileCorrupt):
 					scan = madmin.HealDeepScan
-					logger.Info("Healing required, triggering async heal bitrot for %s", pathJoin(bucket, object, fi.VersionID))
 				}
 				switch scan {
 				case madmin.HealNormalScan, madmin.HealDeepScan:
diff --git a/cmd/erasure-sets.go b/cmd/erasure-sets.go
index b1c1424fc..9566c1b76 100644
--- a/cmd/erasure-sets.go
+++ b/cmd/erasure-sets.go
@@ -221,7 +221,6 @@ func (s *erasureSets) connectDisks() {
 			if err != nil {
 				if endpoint.IsLocal && errors.Is(err, errUnformattedDisk) {
 					globalBackgroundHealState.pushHealLocalDisks(endpoint)
-					logger.Info(fmt.Sprintf("Found unformatted drive %s, attempting to heal...", endpoint))
 				} else {
 					printEndpointError(endpoint, err, true)
 				}
@@ -229,7 +228,6 @@ func (s *erasureSets) connectDisks() {
 			}
 			if disk.IsLocal() && disk.Healing() != nil {
 				globalBackgroundHealState.pushHealLocalDisks(disk.Endpoint())
-				logger.Info(fmt.Sprintf("Found the drive %s that needs healing, attempting to heal...", disk))
 			}
 			s.erasureDisksMu.RLock()
 			setIndex, diskIndex, err := findDiskIndex(s.format, format)
@@ -1256,9 +1254,7 @@ func markRootDisksAsDown(storageDisks []StorageAPI, errs []error) {
 		if storageDisks[i] != nil && infos[i].RootDisk {
 			// We should not heal on root disk. i.e in a situation where the minio-administrator has unmounted a
 			// defective drive we should not heal a path on the root disk.
-			logger.Info("Disk `%s` the same as the system root disk.\n"+
-				"Disk will not be used. Please supply a separate disk and restart the server.",
-				storageDisks[i].String())
+			logger.LogIf(GlobalContext, fmt.Errorf("Disk `%s` is part of root disk, will not be used", storageDisks[i]))
 			storageDisks[i] = nil
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/cmd/erasure.go b/cmd/erasure.go
index 3a7110fb9..e7047f6cf 100644
--- a/cmd/erasure.go
+++ b/cmd/erasure.go
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/minio/madmin-go"
 	"github.com/minio/minio/internal/bpool"
-	"github.com/minio/minio/internal/color"
 	"github.com/minio/minio/internal/dsync"
 	"github.com/minio/minio/internal/logger"
 	"github.com/minio/minio/internal/sync/errgroup"
@@ -353,7 +352,7 @@ func (er erasureObjects) nsScanner(ctx context.Context, buckets []BucketInfo, bf
 	// Collect disks we can use.
 	disks, healing := er.getOnlineDisksWithHealing()
 	if len(disks) == 0 {
-		logger.Info(color.Green("data-scanner:") + " all disks are offline or being healed, skipping scanner")
+		logger.LogIf(ctx, errors.New("data-scanner: all disks are offline or being healed, skipping scanner cycle"))
 		return nil
 	}
 
diff --git a/cmd/gateway-main.go b/cmd/gateway-main.go
index e3298b574..b257f959d 100644
--- a/cmd/gateway-main.go
+++ b/cmd/gateway-main.go
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ func StartGateway(ctx *cli.Context, gw Gateway) {
 	}
 
 	// TODO: remove the following line by June 1st.
-	logStartupMessage(
+	logger.Info(
 		color.RedBold(`
 ===================================================================================
 **** WARNING: MinIO Gateway will be removed by June 1st from MinIO repository *****
diff --git a/cmd/gateway-startup-msg.go b/cmd/gateway-startup-msg.go
index 77c15576a..3a5724aa2 100644
--- a/cmd/gateway-startup-msg.go
+++ b/cmd/gateway-startup-msg.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 
 	"github.com/minio/minio/internal/color"
+	"github.com/minio/minio/internal/logger"
 )
 
 // Prints the formatted startup message.
@@ -45,7 +46,7 @@ func printGatewayStartupMessage(apiEndPoints []string, backendType string) {
 	if globalMinioConsolePortAuto && globalBrowserEnabled {
 		msg := fmt.Sprintf("\nWARNING: Console endpoint is listening on a dynamic port (%s), please use --console-address \":PORT\" to choose a static port.",
 			globalMinioConsolePort)
-		logStartupMessage(color.RedBold(msg))
+		logger.Info(color.RedBold(msg))
 	}
 }
 
@@ -57,19 +58,19 @@ func printGatewayCommonMsg(apiEndpoints []string) {
 	apiEndpointStr := strings.Join(apiEndpoints, "  ")
 
 	// Colorize the message and print.
-	logStartupMessage(color.Blue("API: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", apiEndpointStr)))
+	logger.Info(color.Blue("API: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", apiEndpointStr)))
 	if color.IsTerminal() && !globalCLIContext.Anonymous {
-		logStartupMessage(color.Blue("RootUser: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.AccessKey)))
-		logStartupMessage(color.Blue("RootPass: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.SecretKey)))
+		logger.Info(color.Blue("RootUser: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.AccessKey)))
+		logger.Info(color.Blue("RootPass: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.SecretKey)))
 	}
 	printEventNotifiers()
 
 	if globalBrowserEnabled {
 		consoleEndpointStr := strings.Join(stripStandardPorts(getConsoleEndpoints(), globalMinioConsoleHost), " ")
-		logStartupMessage(color.Blue("\nConsole: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", consoleEndpointStr)))
+		logger.Info(color.Blue("\nConsole: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", consoleEndpointStr)))
 		if color.IsTerminal() && !globalCLIContext.Anonymous {
-			logStartupMessage(color.Blue("RootUser: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.AccessKey)))
-			logStartupMessage(color.Blue("RootPass: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.SecretKey)))
+			logger.Info(color.Blue("RootUser: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.AccessKey)))
+			logger.Info(color.Blue("RootPass: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.SecretKey)))
 		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/cmd/global-heal.go b/cmd/global-heal.go
index 292d6b53d..19f7861c3 100644
--- a/cmd/global-heal.go
+++ b/cmd/global-heal.go
@@ -330,8 +330,6 @@ func (er *erasureObjects) healErasureSet(ctx context.Context, buckets []string,
 		default:
 			tracker.bucketDone(bucket)
 			logger.LogIf(ctx, tracker.update(ctx))
-			logger.Info("Healing bucket %s content on %s erasure set complete",
-				bucket, humanize.Ordinal(tracker.SetIndex+1))
 		}
 	}
 	tracker.Object = ""
diff --git a/cmd/iam.go b/cmd/iam.go
index 7371b20dc..f8a83dc12 100644
--- a/cmd/iam.go
+++ b/cmd/iam.go
@@ -349,7 +349,7 @@ func (sys *IAMSys) printIAMRoles() {
 		msgs = append(msgs, color.Bold(arn))
 	}
 
-	logStartupMessage(fmt.Sprintf("%s %s", color.Blue("IAM Roles:"), strings.Join(msgs, " ")))
+	logger.Info(fmt.Sprintf("%s %s", color.Blue("IAM Roles:"), strings.Join(msgs, " ")))
 }
 
 // HasWatcher - returns if the IAM system has a watcher to be notified of
diff --git a/cmd/main.go b/cmd/main.go
index 26b1a2f39..cba9fdfff 100644
--- a/cmd/main.go
+++ b/cmd/main.go
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ var GlobalFlags = []cli.Flag{
 	},
 	cli.BoolFlag{
 		Name:  "quiet",
-		Usage: "disable startup information",
+		Usage: "disable startup and info messages",
 	},
 	cli.BoolFlag{
 		Name:  "anonymous",
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ var GlobalFlags = []cli.Flag{
 	},
 	cli.BoolFlag{
 		Name:  "json",
-		Usage: "output server logs and startup information in json format",
+		Usage: "output logs in JSON format",
 	},
 	// Deprecated flag, so its hidden now, existing deployments will keep working.
 	cli.BoolFlag{
diff --git a/cmd/server-main.go b/cmd/server-main.go
index 2056678c9..b550e8bad 100644
--- a/cmd/server-main.go
+++ b/cmd/server-main.go
@@ -507,11 +507,11 @@ func serverMain(ctx *cli.Context) {
 	if globalActiveCred.Equal(auth.DefaultCredentials) {
 		msg := fmt.Sprintf("WARNING: Detected default credentials '%s', we recommend that you change these values with 'MINIO_ROOT_USER' and 'MINIO_ROOT_PASSWORD' environment variables",
 			globalActiveCred)
-		logStartupMessage(color.RedBold(msg))
+		logger.Info(color.RedBold(msg))
 	}
 
 	if !globalCLIContext.StrictS3Compat {
-		logStartupMessage(color.RedBold("WARNING: Strict AWS S3 compatible incoming PUT, POST content payload validation is turned off, caution is advised do not use in production"))
+		logger.Info(color.RedBold("WARNING: Strict AWS S3 compatible incoming PUT, POST content payload validation is turned off, caution is advised do not use in production"))
 	}
 
 	if err = initServer(GlobalContext, newObject); err != nil {
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ func serverMain(ctx *cli.Context) {
 
 		// initialize the new disk cache objects.
 		if globalCacheConfig.Enabled {
-			logStartupMessage(color.Yellow("WARNING: Disk caching is deprecated for single/multi drive MinIO setups. Please migrate to using MinIO S3 gateway instead of disk caching"))
+			logger.Info(color.Yellow("WARNING: Disk caching is deprecated for single/multi drive MinIO setups. Please migrate to using MinIO S3 gateway instead of disk caching"))
 			var cacheAPI CacheObjectLayer
 			cacheAPI, err = newServerCacheObjects(GlobalContext, globalCacheConfig)
 			logger.FatalIf(err, "Unable to initialize disk caching")
diff --git a/cmd/server-rlimit.go b/cmd/server-rlimit.go
index abb5089d8..ec3acb3cd 100644
--- a/cmd/server-rlimit.go
+++ b/cmd/server-rlimit.go
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ func setMaxResources() (err error) {
 	}
 
 	if maxLimit < 4096 && runtime.GOOS != globalWindowsOSName {
-		logger.Info("WARNING: maximum file descriptor limit %d is too low for production servers. At least 4096 is recommended. Fix with \"ulimit -n 4096\"", maxLimit)
+		logger.Info("WARNING: maximum file descriptor limit %d is too low for production servers. At least 4096 is recommended. Fix with \"ulimit -n 4096\"",
+			maxLimit)
 	}
 
 	if err = sys.SetMaxOpenFileLimit(maxLimit, maxLimit); err != nil {
diff --git a/cmd/server-startup-msg.go b/cmd/server-startup-msg.go
index 1dabc5fde..e4b9f7a98 100644
--- a/cmd/server-startup-msg.go
+++ b/cmd/server-startup-msg.go
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ func mustGetStorageInfo(objAPI ObjectLayer) StorageInfo {
 // Prints the formatted startup message.
 func printStartupMessage(apiEndpoints []string, err error) {
 	if err != nil {
-		logStartupMessage(color.RedBold("Server startup failed with '%v'", err))
-		logStartupMessage(color.RedBold("Not all features may be available on this server"))
-		logStartupMessage(color.RedBold("Please use 'mc admin' commands to further investigate this issue"))
+		if globalConsoleSys != nil {
+			globalConsoleSys.Send(fmt.Sprintf("Server startup failed with '%v', some features may be missing", err), string(logger.All))
+		}
 	}
 
 	strippedAPIEndpoints := stripStandardPorts(apiEndpoints, globalMinioHost)
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ func printStartupMessage(apiEndpoints []string, err error) {
 	if globalMinioConsolePortAuto && globalBrowserEnabled {
 		msg := fmt.Sprintf("\nWARNING: Console endpoint is listening on a dynamic port (%s), please use --console-address \":PORT\" to choose a static port.",
 			globalMinioConsolePort)
-		logStartupMessage(color.RedBold(msg))
+		logger.Info(color.RedBold(msg))
 	}
 }
 
@@ -131,29 +131,29 @@ func printServerCommonMsg(apiEndpoints []string) {
 	apiEndpointStr := strings.Join(apiEndpoints, "  ")
 
 	// Colorize the message and print.
-	logStartupMessage(color.Blue("API: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", apiEndpointStr)))
-	if color.IsTerminal() && !globalCLIContext.Anonymous {
-		logStartupMessage(color.Blue("RootUser: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.AccessKey)))
-		logStartupMessage(color.Blue("RootPass: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.SecretKey)))
+	logger.Info(color.Blue("API: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", apiEndpointStr)))
+	if color.IsTerminal() && (!globalCLIContext.Anonymous && !globalCLIContext.JSON) {
+		logger.Info(color.Blue("RootUser: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.AccessKey)))
+		logger.Info(color.Blue("RootPass: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.SecretKey)))
 		if region != "" {
-			logStartupMessage(color.Blue("Region: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf(getFormatStr(len(region), 2), region)))
+			logger.Info(color.Blue("Region: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf(getFormatStr(len(region), 2), region)))
 		}
 	}
 	printEventNotifiers()
 
 	if globalBrowserEnabled {
 		consoleEndpointStr := strings.Join(stripStandardPorts(getConsoleEndpoints(), globalMinioConsoleHost), " ")
-		logStartupMessage(color.Blue("\nConsole: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", consoleEndpointStr)))
-		if color.IsTerminal() && !globalCLIContext.Anonymous {
-			logStartupMessage(color.Blue("RootUser: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.AccessKey)))
-			logStartupMessage(color.Blue("RootPass: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.SecretKey)))
+		logger.Info(color.Blue("\nConsole: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", consoleEndpointStr)))
+		if color.IsTerminal() && (!globalCLIContext.Anonymous && !globalCLIContext.JSON) {
+			logger.Info(color.Blue("RootUser: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.AccessKey)))
+			logger.Info(color.Blue("RootPass: ") + color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", cred.SecretKey)))
 		}
 	}
 }
 
 // Prints startup message for Object API acces, prints link to our SDK documentation.
 func printObjectAPIMsg() {
-	logStartupMessage(color.Blue("\nDocumentation: ") + "https://docs.min.io")
+	logger.Info(color.Blue("\nDocumentation: ") + "https://docs.min.io")
 }
 
 // Prints bucket notification configurations.
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ func printEventNotifiers() {
 		arnMsg += color.Bold(fmt.Sprintf("%s ", arn))
 	}
 
-	logStartupMessage(arnMsg)
+	logger.Info(arnMsg)
 }
 
 // Prints startup message for command line access. Prints link to our documentation
@@ -185,15 +185,15 @@ func printCLIAccessMsg(endPoint string, alias string) {
 
 	// Configure 'mc', following block prints platform specific information for minio client.
 	if color.IsTerminal() && !globalCLIContext.Anonymous {
-		logStartupMessage(color.Blue("\nCommand-line: ") + mcQuickStartGuide)
+		logger.Info(color.Blue("\nCommand-line: ") + mcQuickStartGuide)
 		if runtime.GOOS == globalWindowsOSName {
 			mcMessage := fmt.Sprintf("$ mc.exe alias set %s %s %s %s", alias,
 				endPoint, cred.AccessKey, cred.SecretKey)
-			logStartupMessage(fmt.Sprintf(getFormatStr(len(mcMessage), 3), mcMessage))
+			logger.Info(fmt.Sprintf(getFormatStr(len(mcMessage), 3), mcMessage))
 		} else {
 			mcMessage := fmt.Sprintf("$ mc alias set %s %s %s %s", alias,
 				endPoint, cred.AccessKey, cred.SecretKey)
-			logStartupMessage(fmt.Sprintf(getFormatStr(len(mcMessage), 3), mcMessage))
+			logger.Info(fmt.Sprintf(getFormatStr(len(mcMessage), 3), mcMessage))
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -220,10 +220,7 @@ func getStorageInfoMsg(storageInfo StorageInfo) string {
 // Prints startup message of storage capacity and erasure information.
 func printStorageInfo(storageInfo StorageInfo) {
 	if msg := getStorageInfoMsg(storageInfo); msg != "" {
-		if globalCLIContext.Quiet {
-			logger.Info(msg)
-		}
-		logStartupMessage(msg)
+		logger.Info(msg)
 	}
 }
 
@@ -231,5 +228,5 @@ func printCacheStorageInfo(storageInfo CacheStorageInfo) {
 	msg := fmt.Sprintf("%s %s Free, %s Total", color.Blue("Cache Capacity:"),
 		humanize.IBytes(storageInfo.Free),
 		humanize.IBytes(storageInfo.Total))
-	logStartupMessage(msg)
+	logger.Info(msg)
 }
diff --git a/cmd/site-replication.go b/cmd/site-replication.go
index 57d9d84a4..1c69d4e14 100644
--- a/cmd/site-replication.go
+++ b/cmd/site-replication.go
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ func (c *SiteReplicationSys) Init(ctx context.Context, objAPI ObjectLayer) error
 	c.RLock()
 	defer c.RUnlock()
 	if c.enabled {
-		logger.Info("Cluster Replication initialized.")
+		logger.Info("Cluster replication initialized")
 	}
 
 	return err
diff --git a/cmd/update-notifier.go b/cmd/update-notifier.go
index cc726c546..fa5d59674 100644
--- a/cmd/update-notifier.go
+++ b/cmd/update-notifier.go
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ func prepareUpdateMessage(downloadURL string, older time.Duration) string {
 	t := time.Time{}
 	newerThan := humanize.RelTime(t, t.Add(older), "ago", "")
 
+	if globalCLIContext.JSON {
+		return fmt.Sprintf("You are running an older version of MinIO released %s, update: %s", newerThan, downloadURL)
+	}
+
 	// Return the nicely colored and formatted update message.
 	return colorizeUpdateMessage(downloadURL, newerThan)
 }
diff --git a/cmd/xl-storage-format-v2.go b/cmd/xl-storage-format-v2.go
index 6cbaa584b..b07005c24 100644
--- a/cmd/xl-storage-format-v2.go
+++ b/cmd/xl-storage-format-v2.go
@@ -880,7 +880,7 @@ func (x *xlMetaV2) loadIndexed(buf xlMetaBuf, data xlMetaInlineData) error {
 	x.metaV = metaV
 	if err = x.data.validate(); err != nil {
 		x.data.repair()
-		logger.Info("xlMetaV2.loadIndexed: data validation failed: %v. %d entries after repair", err, x.data.entries())
+		logger.LogIf(GlobalContext, fmt.Errorf("xlMetaV2.loadIndexed: data validation failed: %v. %d entries after repair", err, x.data.entries()))
 	}
 
 	return decodeVersions(buf, versions, func(i int, hdr, meta []byte) error {
@@ -929,7 +929,7 @@ func (x *xlMetaV2) loadLegacy(buf []byte) error {
 			x.data = buf
 			if err = x.data.validate(); err != nil {
 				x.data.repair()
-				logger.Info("xlMetaV2.Load: data validation failed: %v. %d entries after repair", err, x.data.entries())
+				logger.LogIf(GlobalContext, fmt.Errorf("xlMetaV2.Load: data validation failed: %v. %d entries after repair", err, x.data.entries()))
 			}
 		default:
 			return errors.New("unknown minor metadata version")
diff --git a/internal/logger/console.go b/internal/logger/console.go
index 12c816190..2e6c3de21 100644
--- a/internal/logger/console.go
+++ b/internal/logger/console.go
@@ -169,7 +169,6 @@ func (i infoMsg) json(msg string, args ...interface{}) {
 }
 
 func (i infoMsg) quiet(msg string, args ...interface{}) {
-	i.pretty(msg, args...)
 }
 
 func (i infoMsg) pretty(msg string, args ...interface{}) {
@@ -222,22 +221,3 @@ func Error(msg string, data ...interface{}) {
 func Info(msg string, data ...interface{}) {
 	consoleLog(info, msg, data...)
 }
-
-var startupMessage startUpMsg
-
-type startUpMsg struct{}
-
-func (s startUpMsg) json(msg string, args ...interface{}) {
-}
-
-func (s startUpMsg) quiet(msg string, args ...interface{}) {
-}
-
-func (s startUpMsg) pretty(msg string, args ...interface{}) {
-	c.Printf(msg, args...)
-}
-
-// StartupMessage :
-func StartupMessage(msg string, data ...interface{}) {
-	consoleLog(startupMessage, msg, data...)
-}