diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/tool/profiling/DriverLogProcessor.scala b/core/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/tool/profiling/DriverLogProcessor.scala
index 6ead13466..b10e19741 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/tool/profiling/DriverLogProcessor.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/tool/profiling/DriverLogProcessor.scala
@@ -16,21 +16,26 @@
 
 package com.nvidia.spark.rapids.tool.profiling
 
-import scala.io.Source
+import java.io.{BufferedReader, InputStreamReader}
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.{FileSystem, FSDataInputStream, Path}
 
 import org.apache.spark.internal.Logging
 
 class DriverLogProcessor(driverlogPath: String) extends Logging {
-  def processDriverLog(): Seq[DriverLogUnsupportedOperators] = {
-    val source = Source.fromFile(driverlogPath)
+  def processDriverLog(fs : FileSystem): Seq[DriverLogUnsupportedOperators] = {
+    var source : FSDataInputStream = null
     // Create a map to store the counts for each operator and reason
     var countsMap = Map[(String, String), Int]().withDefaultValue(0)
     try {
+      source = fs.open(new Path(driverlogPath))
+      val reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(source))
       // Process each line in the file
-      for (line <- source.getLines()) {
+      val lines = reader.lines()
+      lines.forEach { line =>
         // condition to check if the line contains unsupported operators
-        if (line.contains("cannot run on GPU") &&
-          !line.contains("not all expressions can be replaced")) {
+        if (line.mkString.contains("cannot run on GPU") &&
+          !line.mkString.contains("not all expressions can be replaced")) {
           val operatorName = line.split("<")(1).split(">")(0)
           val reason = line.split("because")(1).trim()
           val key = (operatorName, reason)
@@ -41,7 +46,9 @@ class DriverLogProcessor(driverlogPath: String) extends Logging {
       case e: Exception =>
         logError(s"Unexpected exception processing driver log: $driverlogPath", e)
     } finally {
-      source.close()
+      if (source != null) {
+        source.close()
+      }
     }
     countsMap.map(x => DriverLogUnsupportedOperators(x._1._1, x._2, x._1._2)).toSeq
   }
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/tool/profiling/ProfileMain.scala b/core/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/tool/profiling/ProfileMain.scala
index 71759a9ae..8bf0c6f76 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/tool/profiling/ProfileMain.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/tool/profiling/ProfileMain.scala
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 
 package com.nvidia.spark.rapids.tool.profiling
 
+import java.io.IOException
+
 import com.nvidia.spark.rapids.tool.EventLogPathProcessor
 
 import org.apache.spark.internal.Logging
@@ -78,7 +80,15 @@ object ProfileMain extends Logging {
 
     val profiler = new Profiler(hadoopConf, appArgs, enablePB)
     if (driverLog.nonEmpty) {
-      profiler.profileDriver(driverLog, eventLogFsFiltered.isEmpty)
+      val dLogPath = new org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path(driverLog)
+      try {
+        val fs = dLogPath.getFileSystem(hadoopConf)
+        profiler.profileDriver(driverLog, eventLogFsFiltered.isEmpty, fs)
+      } catch {
+        case e : IOException  =>
+          logError(s"Unexpected exception processing driver log: $driverLog," +
+            s" check the provided path", e)
+      }
     }
     profiler.profile(eventLogFsFiltered)
     (0, filteredLogs.size)
diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/tool/profiling/Profiler.scala b/core/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/tool/profiling/Profiler.scala
index 479d29784..d278893d6 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/tool/profiling/Profiler.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/com/nvidia/spark/rapids/tool/profiling/Profiler.scala
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import scala.util.control.NonFatal
 import com.nvidia.spark.rapids.ThreadFactoryBuilder
 import com.nvidia.spark.rapids.tool.{EventLogInfo, EventLogPathProcessor, PlatformFactory}
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration
+import org.apache.hadoop.fs.FileSystem
 
 import org.apache.spark.internal.Logging
 import org.apache.spark.sql.rapids.tool.profiling.ApplicationInfo
@@ -124,12 +125,12 @@ class Profiler(hadoopConf: Configuration, appArgs: ProfileArgs, enablePB: Boolea
     progressBar.foreach(_.finishAll())
   }
 
-  def profileDriver(driverLogInfos: String, eventLogsEmpty: Boolean): Unit = {
+  def profileDriver(driverLogInfos: String, eventLogsEmpty: Boolean, fs : FileSystem): Unit = {
     val profileOutputWriter = new ProfileOutputWriter(s"$outputDir/driver",
       Profiler.DRIVER_LOG_NAME, numOutputRows, true)
     try {
       val driverLogProcessor = new DriverLogProcessor(driverLogInfos)
-      val unsupportedDriverOperators = driverLogProcessor.processDriverLog()
+      val unsupportedDriverOperators = driverLogProcessor.processDriverLog(fs)
       profileOutputWriter.write(s"Unsupported operators in driver log",
         unsupportedDriverOperators)
       if (eventLogsEmpty && useAutoTuner) {