diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 87b4384bdd..5609a9834d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [2.6.3] = 2018-04-10
+
+### Fixed
+- Do not log a complete stack trace when a user tries to publish to a non-existing event type
+
 ## [2.6.2] - 2018-04-05
 
 ### Changed
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/zalando/nakadi/controller/EventPublishingController.java b/src/main/java/org/zalando/nakadi/controller/EventPublishingController.java
index d5ed1d9ee4..e8e8a7fddf 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/zalando/nakadi/controller/EventPublishingController.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/zalando/nakadi/controller/EventPublishingController.java
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ private ResponseEntity postEventInternal(final String eventTypeName,
             LOG.debug("Problem parsing event", e);
             return processJSONException(e, nativeWebRequest);
         } catch (final NoSuchEventTypeException e) {
-            LOG.debug("Event type not found.", e);
+            LOG.debug("Event type not found.", e.getMessage());
             return create(e.asProblem(), nativeWebRequest);
         } catch (final NakadiException e) {
             LOG.debug("Failed to publish batch", e);
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/zalando/nakadi/repository/db/EventTypeDbRepository.java b/src/main/java/org/zalando/nakadi/repository/db/EventTypeDbRepository.java
index 3a871f59be..1707a118d1 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/zalando/nakadi/repository/db/EventTypeDbRepository.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/zalando/nakadi/repository/db/EventTypeDbRepository.java
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ public EventType findByName(final String name) throws NoSuchEventTypeException {
         try {
             return jdbcTemplate.queryForObject(sql, new Object[]{name}, new EventTypeMapper());
         } catch (EmptyResultDataAccessException e) {
-            throw new NoSuchEventTypeException("EventType \"" + name + "\" does not exist.", e);
+            throw new NoSuchEventTypeException("EventType \"" + name + "\" does not exist.");
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/zalando/nakadi/service/timeline/TimelineService.java b/src/main/java/org/zalando/nakadi/service/timeline/TimelineService.java
index 017cfd167e..e67fc3c9e6 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/zalando/nakadi/service/timeline/TimelineService.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/zalando/nakadi/service/timeline/TimelineService.java
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ public void createTimeline(final String eventTypeName, final String storageId)
         } catch (final TopicCreationException | ServiceUnavailableException | InternalNakadiException e) {
             throw new TimelineException("Internal service error", e);
         } catch (final NoSuchEventTypeException e) {
-            throw new NotFoundException("EventType \"" + eventTypeName + "\" does not exist", e);
+            throw new NotFoundException("EventType \"" + eventTypeName + "\" does not exist");
         }
     }
 
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ public List<Timeline> getTimelines(final String eventTypeName)
             final EventType eventType = eventTypeCache.getEventType(eventTypeName);
             return timelineDbRepository.listTimelinesOrdered(eventType.getName());
         } catch (final NoSuchEventTypeException e) {
-            throw new NotFoundException("EventType \"" + eventTypeName + "\" does not exist", e);
+            throw new NotFoundException("EventType \"" + eventTypeName + "\" does not exist");
         } catch (final InternalNakadiException e) {
             throw new TimelineException("Could not get event type: " + eventTypeName, e);
         }