diff --git a/flink-connector-elasticsearch8/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/connector/elasticsearch/sink/Elasticsearch8AsyncWriter.java b/flink-connector-elasticsearch8/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/connector/elasticsearch/sink/Elasticsearch8AsyncWriter.java
index c94ae28b..8b202a7a 100644
--- a/flink-connector-elasticsearch8/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/connector/elasticsearch/sink/Elasticsearch8AsyncWriter.java
+++ b/flink-connector-elasticsearch8/src/main/java/org/apache/flink/connector/elasticsearch/sink/Elasticsearch8AsyncWriter.java
@@ -67,6 +67,8 @@ public class Elasticsearch8AsyncWriter<InputT> extends AsyncSinkWriter<InputT, O
      * retried by this writer.
      */
     private final Counter numRecordsSendPartialFailureCounter;
+    /** A counter to track the number of bulk requests that are sent to Elasticsearch. */
+    private final Counter numRequestSubmittedCounter;
 
     private static final FatalExceptionClassifier ELASTICSEARCH_FATAL_EXCEPTION_CLASSIFIER =
             FatalExceptionClassifier.createChain(
@@ -110,12 +112,19 @@ public Elasticsearch8AsyncWriter(
         this.numRecordsOutErrorsCounter = metricGroup.getNumRecordsOutErrorsCounter();
         this.numRecordsSendPartialFailureCounter =
                 metricGroup.counter("numRecordsSendPartialFailure");
+        this.numRequestSubmittedCounter = metricGroup.counter("numRequestSubmitted");
     }
 
     @Override
     protected void submitRequestEntries(
             List<Operation> requestEntries, Consumer<List<Operation>> requestResult) {
-        LOG.info("submitRequestEntries with {} items", requestEntries.size());
+        numRequestSubmittedCounter.inc();
+        // log progress message at INFO level every 100 requests to avoid too many log messages.
+        if (numRequestSubmittedCounter.getCount() % 100 == 0) {
+            LOG.info("Submitted {} requests", numRequestSubmittedCounter.getCount());
+        }
+
+        LOG.debug("submitRequestEntries with {} items", requestEntries.size());
 
         BulkRequest.Builder br = new BulkRequest.Builder();
         for (Operation operation : requestEntries) {
@@ -176,7 +185,7 @@ private void handlePartiallyFailedRequest(
 
     private void handleSuccessfulRequest(
             Consumer<List<Operation>> requestResult, BulkResponse response) {
-        LOG.info(
+        LOG.debug(
                 "The BulkRequest of {} operation(s) completed successfully. It took {}ms",
                 response.items().size(),
                 response.took());