diff --git a/docs/how/updating-datahub.md b/docs/how/updating-datahub.md
index 16947d79d8..09f13624d6 100644
--- a/docs/how/updating-datahub.md
+++ b/docs/how/updating-datahub.md
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ This file documents any backwards-incompatible changes in DataHub and assists pe
 ### Deprecations
 
 ### Other notable Changes
+- #4961 Dropped profiling is not reported by default as that caused a lot of spurious logging in some cases. Set `profiling.report_dropped_profiles` to `True` if you want older behaviour.
 
 ## `v0.8.35`
 
diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/ge_profiling_config.py b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/ge_profiling_config.py
index 6d7e8ea80d..28a8e04413 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/ge_profiling_config.py
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/ge_profiling_config.py
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ class GEProfilingConfig(ConfigModel):
         default=None,
         description="Offset in documents to profile. By default, uses no offset.",
     )
+    report_dropped_profiles: bool = Field(
+        default=False,
+        description="If datasets which were not profiled are reported in source report or not. Set to `True` for debugging purposes.",
+    )
 
     # These settings will override the ones below.
     turn_off_expensive_profiling_metrics: bool = Field(
diff --git a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/sql/sql_common.py b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/sql/sql_common.py
index 8f540884ef..308a2f8556 100644
--- a/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/sql/sql_common.py
+++ b/metadata-ingestion/src/datahub/ingestion/source/sql/sql_common.py
@@ -1295,7 +1295,8 @@ class SQLAlchemySource(StatefulIngestionSourceBase):
                 schema=schema, entity=table, inspector=inspector
             )
             if not self.is_dataset_eligible_for_profiling(dataset_name, sql_config):
-                self.report.report_dropped(f"profile of {dataset_name}")
+                if self.config.profiling.report_dropped_profiles:
+                    self.report.report_dropped(f"profile of {dataset_name}")
                 continue
 
             dataset_name = self.normalise_dataset_name(dataset_name)