diff --git a/oak-blob-cloud-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/blob/cloud/azure/blobstorage/AzureBlobStoreBackend.java b/oak-blob-cloud-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/blob/cloud/azure/blobstorage/AzureBlobStoreBackend.java
index 0534aaef3d..8f481274a5 100644
--- a/oak-blob-cloud-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/blob/cloud/azure/blobstorage/AzureBlobStoreBackend.java
+++ b/oak-blob-cloud-azure/src/main/java/org/apache/jackrabbit/oak/blob/cloud/azure/blobstorage/AzureBlobStoreBackend.java
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ public class AzureBlobStoreBackend extends AbstractSharedBackend {
 
     private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(AzureBlobStoreBackend.class);
 
+    private static final Logger LOG_STREAMS = LoggerFactory.getLogger("oak.datastore.download.streams");
+
     private static final String META_DIR_NAME = "META";
     private static final String META_KEY_PREFIX = META_DIR_NAME + "/";
 
@@ -217,6 +219,10 @@ public class AzureBlobStoreBackend extends AbstractSharedBackend {
 
             InputStream is = blob.openInputStream();
             LOG.debug("Got input stream for blob. identifier={} duration={}", key, (System.currentTimeMillis() - start));
+            if (LOG_STREAMS.isDebugEnabled()) {
+                // Log message, with exception so we can get a trace to see where the call came from
+                LOG_STREAMS.debug("binary downloaded from Azure Blob Storage: " + identifier, new Exception());
+            }
             return is;
         }
         catch (StorageException e) {
@@ -1184,11 +1190,9 @@ public class AzureBlobStoreBackend extends AbstractSharedBackend {
             if (isMeta) {
                 id = addMetaKeyPrefix(getIdentifier().toString());
             }
-            if (LOG.isDebugEnabled()) {
-                // Log message, with exception so we can get a trace to see where the call
-                // came from
-                LOG.debug("binary downloaded from Azure Blob Storage: " + getIdentifier(),
-                        new Exception());
+            if (LOG_STREAMS.isDebugEnabled()) {
+                // Log message, with exception so we can get a trace to see where the call came from
+                LOG_STREAMS.debug("binary downloaded from Azure Blob Storage: " + getIdentifier(), new Exception());
             }
             try {
                 return container.getBlockBlobReference(id).openInputStream();