diff --git a/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/NetworkClient.java b/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/NetworkClient.java
index b7ae595f2cc..435fbb5116e 100644
--- a/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/NetworkClient.java
+++ b/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/clients/NetworkClient.java
@@ -391,6 +391,10 @@ public class NetworkClient implements KafkaClient {
         this.metadataFetchInProgress = false;
         MetadataResponse response = new MetadataResponse(body);
         Cluster cluster = response.cluster();
+        // check if any topics metadata failed to get updated
+        if (response.errors().size() > 0) {
+            log.warn("Error while fetching metadata with correlation id {} : {}", header.correlationId(), response.errors());
+        }
         // don't update the cluster if there are no valid nodes...the topic we want may still be in the process of being
         // created which means we will get errors and no nodes until it exists
         if (cluster.nodes().size() > 0) {