diff --git a/vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/layer.py b/vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/layer.py
index 499c4573cacd5..9b117f3b5d418 100644
--- a/vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/layer.py
+++ b/vllm/model_executor/layers/fused_moe/layer.py
@@ -1137,7 +1137,7 @@ class FusedMoE(CustomOp):
             )
             self.local_num_experts = local_num_experts
             self.register_buffer("expert_map", expert_map)
-            logger.debug_once(
+            logger.info_once(
                 "[EP Rank %s/%s] Expert parallelism is enabled. Expert "
                 "placement strategy: %s. Local/global"
                 " number of experts: %s/%s. Experts local to global index map:"
diff --git a/vllm/v1/engine/core.py b/vllm/v1/engine/core.py
index 23a3fd50d2312..fc64a7a93aa58 100644
--- a/vllm/v1/engine/core.py
+++ b/vllm/v1/engine/core.py
@@ -725,6 +725,7 @@ class EngineCoreProc(EngineCore):
         )
 
         # Receive initialization message.
+        logger.debug("Waiting for init message from front-end.")
         if not handshake_socket.poll(timeout=HANDSHAKE_TIMEOUT_MINS * 60_000):
             raise RuntimeError(
                 "Did not receive response from front-end "