diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/AbstractHoodieWriteClient.java b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/AbstractHoodieWriteClient.java
index 5c2bee1de..358e30716 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/AbstractHoodieWriteClient.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/AbstractHoodieWriteClient.java
@@ -265,6 +265,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractHoodieWriteClient<T extends HoodieRecordPayload, I
    * @param metadata instance of {@link HoodieCommitMetadata}.
    */
   protected void writeTableMetadata(HoodieTable table, String instantTime, String actionType, HoodieCommitMetadata metadata) {
+    context.setJobStatus(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "Committing to metadata table");
     table.getMetadataWriter(instantTime).ifPresent(w -> ((HoodieTableMetadataWriter) w).update(metadata, instantTime,
         table.isTableServiceAction(actionType)));
   }
diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/metadata/HoodieBackedTableMetadataWriter.java b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/metadata/HoodieBackedTableMetadataWriter.java
index eb4b24a34..8a59e2c11 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/metadata/HoodieBackedTableMetadataWriter.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/metadata/HoodieBackedTableMetadataWriter.java
@@ -464,6 +464,7 @@ public abstract class HoodieBackedTableMetadataWriter implements HoodieTableMeta
 
     // List all partitions in the basePath of the containing dataset
     LOG.info("Initializing metadata table by using file listings in " + dataWriteConfig.getBasePath());
+    engineContext.setJobStatus(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "Bootstrap: initializing metadata table by listing files and partitions");
     List<DirectoryInfo> dirInfoList = listAllPartitions(dataMetaClient);
 
     // During bootstrap, the list of files to be committed can be huge. So creating a HoodieCommitMetadata out of these
diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/clean/CleanPlanActionExecutor.java b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/clean/CleanPlanActionExecutor.java
index 9b95bd718..a64cb8845 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/clean/CleanPlanActionExecutor.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/clean/CleanPlanActionExecutor.java
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ public class CleanPlanActionExecutor<T extends HoodieRecordPayload, I, K, O> ext
     try {
       CleanPlanner<T, I, K, O> planner = new CleanPlanner<>(context, table, config);
       Option<HoodieInstant> earliestInstant = planner.getEarliestCommitToRetain();
+      context.setJobStatus(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "Obtaining list of partitions to be cleaned");
       List<String> partitionsToClean = planner.getPartitionPathsToClean(earliestInstant);
 
       if (partitionsToClean.isEmpty()) {
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@ public class CleanPlanActionExecutor<T extends HoodieRecordPayload, I, K, O> ext
       int cleanerParallelism = Math.min(partitionsToClean.size(), config.getCleanerParallelism());
       LOG.info("Using cleanerParallelism: " + cleanerParallelism);
 
-      context.setJobStatus(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "Generates list of file slices to be cleaned");
+      context.setJobStatus(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "Generating list of file slices to be cleaned");
 
       Map<String, List<HoodieCleanFileInfo>> cleanOps = context
           .map(partitionsToClean, partitionPathToClean -> Pair.of(partitionPathToClean, planner.getDeletePaths(partitionPathToClean)), cleanerParallelism)
diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/commit/AbstractWriteHelper.java b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/commit/AbstractWriteHelper.java
index 0d9cdc0aa..47cb34fa3 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/commit/AbstractWriteHelper.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/commit/AbstractWriteHelper.java
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractWriteHelper<T extends HoodieRecordPayload, I, K, O
       I taggedRecords = dedupedRecords;
       if (performTagging) {
         // perform index loop up to get existing location of records
+        context.setJobStatus(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "Tagging");
         taggedRecords = tag(dedupedRecords, context, table);
       }
       Duration indexLookupDuration = Duration.between(lookupBegin, Instant.now());
diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/compact/ScheduleCompactionActionExecutor.java b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/compact/ScheduleCompactionActionExecutor.java
index 5adaf5ae3..2627454fc 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/compact/ScheduleCompactionActionExecutor.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/compact/ScheduleCompactionActionExecutor.java
@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ public class ScheduleCompactionActionExecutor<T extends HoodieRecordPayload, I,
             .collect(Collectors.toSet());
         // exclude files in pending clustering from compaction.
         fgInPendingCompactionAndClustering.addAll(fileSystemView.getFileGroupsInPendingClustering().map(Pair::getLeft).collect(Collectors.toSet()));
+        context.setJobStatus(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "Compaction: generating compaction plan");
         return compactor.generateCompactionPlan(context, table, config, instantTime, fgInPendingCompactionAndClustering);
       } catch (IOException e) {
         throw new HoodieCompactionException("Could not schedule compaction " + config.getBasePath(), e);
diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/marker/WriteMarkers.java b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/marker/WriteMarkers.java
index c243b9b7c..5cc0f80c2 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/marker/WriteMarkers.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-client-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/marker/WriteMarkers.java
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ public abstract class WriteMarkers implements Serializable {
    */
   public void quietDeleteMarkerDir(HoodieEngineContext context, int parallelism) {
     try {
+      context.setJobStatus(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "Deleting marker directory");
       deleteMarkerDir(context, parallelism);
     } catch (HoodieIOException ioe) {
       LOG.warn("Error deleting marker directory for instant " + instantTime, ioe);
diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/SparkRDDWriteClient.java b/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/SparkRDDWriteClient.java
index 6de20b582..dcd241618 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/SparkRDDWriteClient.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/client/SparkRDDWriteClient.java
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ public class SparkRDDWriteClient<T extends HoodieRecordPayload> extends
   @Override
   public boolean commit(String instantTime, JavaRDD<WriteStatus> writeStatuses, Option<Map<String, String>> extraMetadata,
                         String commitActionType, Map<String, List<String>> partitionToReplacedFileIds) {
+    context.setJobStatus(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "Committing stats");
     List<HoodieWriteStat> writeStats = writeStatuses.map(WriteStatus::getStat).collect();
     return commitStats(instantTime, writeStats, extraMetadata, commitActionType, partitionToReplacedFileIds);
   }
diff --git a/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/commit/BaseSparkCommitActionExecutor.java b/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/commit/BaseSparkCommitActionExecutor.java
index 6a01c4aa2..a44172f37 100644
--- a/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/commit/BaseSparkCommitActionExecutor.java
+++ b/hudi-client/hudi-spark-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/table/action/commit/BaseSparkCommitActionExecutor.java
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ public abstract class BaseSparkCommitActionExecutor<T extends HoodieRecordPayloa
   }
 
   private JavaRDD<HoodieRecord<T>> clusteringHandleUpdate(JavaRDD<HoodieRecord<T>> inputRecordsRDD) {
+    context.setJobStatus(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "Handling updates which are under clustering");
     Set<HoodieFileGroupId> fileGroupsInPendingClustering =
         table.getFileSystemView().getFileGroupsInPendingClustering().map(entry -> entry.getKey()).collect(Collectors.toSet());
     UpdateStrategy updateStrategy = (UpdateStrategy) ReflectionUtils
@@ -166,6 +167,7 @@ public abstract class BaseSparkCommitActionExecutor<T extends HoodieRecordPayloa
 
     // partition using the insert partitioner
     final Partitioner partitioner = getPartitioner(profile);
+    context.setJobStatus(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "Doing partition and writing data");
     JavaRDD<HoodieRecord<T>> partitionedRecords = partition(inputRecordsRDDWithClusteringUpdate, partitioner);
     JavaRDD<WriteStatus> writeStatusRDD = partitionedRecords.mapPartitionsWithIndex((partition, recordItr) -> {
       if (WriteOperationType.isChangingRecords(operationType)) {
@@ -276,7 +278,7 @@ public abstract class BaseSparkCommitActionExecutor<T extends HoodieRecordPayloa
 
   protected void commit(Option<Map<String, String>> extraMetadata, HoodieWriteMetadata<JavaRDD<WriteStatus>> result, List<HoodieWriteStat> writeStats) {
     String actionType = getCommitActionType();
-    LOG.info("Committing " + instantTime + ", action Type " + actionType);
+    LOG.info("Committing " + instantTime + ", action Type " + actionType + ", operation Type " + operationType);
     result.setCommitted(true);
     result.setWriteStats(writeStats);
     // Finalize write
diff --git a/hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/deltastreamer/DeltaSync.java b/hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/deltastreamer/DeltaSync.java
index eb553c94e..96a7c25de 100644
--- a/hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/deltastreamer/DeltaSync.java
+++ b/hudi-utilities/src/main/java/org/apache/hudi/utilities/deltastreamer/DeltaSync.java
@@ -441,6 +441,7 @@ public class DeltaSync implements Serializable {
       return null;
     }
 
+    jssc.setJobGroup(this.getClass().getSimpleName(), "Checking if input is empty");
     if ((!avroRDDOptional.isPresent()) || (avroRDDOptional.get().isEmpty())) {
       LOG.info("No new data, perform empty commit.");
       return Pair.of(schemaProvider, Pair.of(checkpointStr, jssc.emptyRDD()));