diff --git a/.changeset/friendly-frogs-drop.md b/.changeset/friendly-frogs-drop.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..682f1dbabb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/friendly-frogs-drop.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend': patch
+---
+
+Change orphan cleanup task to only log a message if it deleted entities.
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/DefaultCatalogProcessingEngine.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/DefaultCatalogProcessingEngine.ts
index e89d53f79f..8e2f8b2f6f 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/DefaultCatalogProcessingEngine.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/processing/DefaultCatalogProcessingEngine.ts
@@ -317,7 +317,9 @@ export class DefaultCatalogProcessingEngine implements CatalogProcessingEngine {
       try {
         await this.processingDatabase.transaction(async tx => {
           const n = await this.processingDatabase.deleteOrphanedEntities(tx);
-          this.logger.info(`Deleted ${n} orphaned entities`);
+          if (n > 0) {
+            this.logger.info(`Deleted ${n} orphaned entities`);
+          }
         });
       } catch (error) {
         this.logger.warn(`Failed to delete orphaned entities`, error);