diff --git a/src/meta/src/barrier/recovery.rs b/src/meta/src/barrier/recovery.rs
index 1ff673d7da081..48496cf6b7271 100644
--- a/src/meta/src/barrier/recovery.rs
+++ b/src/meta/src/barrier/recovery.rs
@@ -192,6 +192,12 @@ impl GlobalBarrierManager {
                         .list_background_creating_jobs()
                         .await?;
 
+                    info!(
+                        "background streaming jobs: {:?} total {}",
+                        background_streaming_jobs,
+                        background_streaming_jobs.len()
+                    );
+
                     // Resolve actor info for recovery. If there's no actor to recover, most of the
                     // following steps will be no-op, while the compute nodes will still be reset.
                     // FIXME: Transactions should be used.
@@ -199,6 +205,7 @@ impl GlobalBarrierManager {
                     let mut info = if !self.env.opts.disable_automatic_parallelism_control
                         && background_streaming_jobs.is_empty()
                     {
+                        info!("trigger offline scaling");
                         self.context
                             .scale_actors(&active_streaming_nodes)
                             .await
@@ -210,6 +217,7 @@ impl GlobalBarrierManager {
                             warn!(error = %err.as_report(), "resolve actor info failed");
                         })?
                     } else {
+                        info!("trigger actor migration");
                         // Migrate actors in expired CN to newly joined one.
                         self.context
                             .migrate_actors(&mut active_streaming_nodes)
@@ -532,7 +540,7 @@ impl GlobalBarrierManagerContext {
 
         mgr.catalog_controller.migrate_actors(plan).await?;
 
-        debug!("migrate actors succeed.");
+        info!("migrate actors succeed.");
 
         self.resolve_graph_info().await
     }
@@ -603,6 +611,11 @@ impl GlobalBarrierManagerContext {
             result
         };
 
+        info!(
+            "target table parallelisms for offline scaling: {:?}",
+            table_parallelisms
+        );
+
         let schedulable_worker_ids = active_nodes
             .current()
             .values()
@@ -616,6 +629,11 @@ impl GlobalBarrierManagerContext {
             .map(|worker| worker.id as WorkerId)
             .collect();
 
+        info!(
+            "target worker ids for offline scaling: {:?}",
+            schedulable_worker_ids
+        );
+
         let plan = self
             .scale_controller
             .generate_table_resize_plan(TableResizePolicy {
@@ -653,6 +671,8 @@ impl GlobalBarrierManagerContext {
         // Because custom parallelism doesn't exist, this function won't result in a no-shuffle rewrite for table parallelisms.
         debug_assert_eq!(compared_table_parallelisms, table_parallelisms);
 
+        info!("post applying reschedule for offline scaling");
+
         if let Err(e) = self
             .scale_controller
             .post_apply_reschedule(&reschedule_fragment, &table_parallelisms)
@@ -666,7 +686,7 @@ impl GlobalBarrierManagerContext {
             return Err(e);
         }
 
-        debug!("scaling actors succeed.");
+        info!("scaling actors succeed.");
         Ok(())
     }