diff --git a/hack/lib/etcd.sh b/hack/lib/etcd.sh
index 756e342499c..4df9c3fc442 100755
--- a/hack/lib/etcd.sh
+++ b/hack/lib/etcd.sh
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@
 ETCD_VERSION=${ETCD_VERSION:-3.5.1}
 ETCD_HOST=${ETCD_HOST:-127.0.0.1}
 ETCD_PORT=${ETCD_PORT:-2379}
+# This is intentionally not called ETCD_LOG_LEVEL:
+# etcd checks that and compains when it is set in addition
+# to the command line argument, even when both have the same value.
+ETCD_LOGLEVEL=${ETCD_LOGLEVEL:-debug}
 export KUBE_INTEGRATION_ETCD_URL="http://${ETCD_HOST}:${ETCD_PORT}"
 
 kube::etcd::validate() {
@@ -82,8 +86,8 @@ kube::etcd::start() {
   else
     ETCD_LOGFILE=${ETCD_LOGFILE:-"/dev/null"}
   fi
-  kube::log::info "etcd --advertise-client-urls ${KUBE_INTEGRATION_ETCD_URL} --data-dir ${ETCD_DIR} --listen-client-urls http://${ETCD_HOST}:${ETCD_PORT} --log-level=debug > \"${ETCD_LOGFILE}\" 2>/dev/null"
-  etcd --advertise-client-urls "${KUBE_INTEGRATION_ETCD_URL}" --data-dir "${ETCD_DIR}" --listen-client-urls "${KUBE_INTEGRATION_ETCD_URL}" --log-level=debug 2> "${ETCD_LOGFILE}" >/dev/null &
+  kube::log::info "etcd --advertise-client-urls ${KUBE_INTEGRATION_ETCD_URL} --data-dir ${ETCD_DIR} --listen-client-urls http://${ETCD_HOST}:${ETCD_PORT} --log-level=${ETCD_LOGLEVEL} 2> \"${ETCD_LOGFILE}\" >/dev/null"
+  etcd --advertise-client-urls "${KUBE_INTEGRATION_ETCD_URL}" --data-dir "${ETCD_DIR}" --listen-client-urls "${KUBE_INTEGRATION_ETCD_URL}" --log-level="${ETCD_LOGLEVEL}" 2> "${ETCD_LOGFILE}" >/dev/null &
   ETCD_PID=$!
 
   echo "Waiting for etcd to come up."
diff --git a/pkg/scheduler/framework/plugins/interpodaffinity/plugin.go b/pkg/scheduler/framework/plugins/interpodaffinity/plugin.go
index da6b35b5e68..d9d3e5a94da 100644
--- a/pkg/scheduler/framework/plugins/interpodaffinity/plugin.go
+++ b/pkg/scheduler/framework/plugins/interpodaffinity/plugin.go
@@ -135,6 +135,6 @@ func GetNamespaceLabelsSnapshot(ns string, nsLister listersv1.NamespaceLister) (
 		// Create and return snapshot of the labels.
 		return labels.Merge(podNS.Labels, nil)
 	}
-	klog.ErrorS(err, "getting namespace, assuming empty set of namespace labels", "namespace", ns)
+	klog.V(3).InfoS("getting namespace, assuming empty set of namespace labels", "namespace", ns, "err", err)
 	return
 }
diff --git a/test/integration/framework/controlplane_utils.go b/test/integration/framework/controlplane_utils.go
index 9513a9fa4e1..d0dfcdea032 100644
--- a/test/integration/framework/controlplane_utils.go
+++ b/test/integration/framework/controlplane_utils.go
@@ -65,6 +65,13 @@ const (
 	UnprivilegedUserToken = "unprivileged-user"
 )
 
+// MinVerbosity determines the minimum klog verbosity when running tests that
+// involve the apiserver.  This overrides the -v value from the command line,
+// i.e. -v=0 has no effect when MinVerbosity is 4 (the default).  Tests can opt
+// out of this by setting MinVerbosity to zero before starting the control
+// plane or choose some different minimum verbosity.
+var MinVerbosity = 4
+
 // Config is a struct of configuration directives for NewControlPlaneComponents.
 type Config struct {
 	// If nil, a default is used, partially filled configs will not get populated.
@@ -139,11 +146,11 @@ func startAPIServerOrDie(controlPlaneConfig *controlplane.Config, incomingServer
 	var m *controlplane.Instance
 	var s *httptest.Server
 
-	// Ensure we log at least level 4
+	// Ensure we log at least at the desired level
 	v := flag.Lookup("v").Value
 	level, _ := strconv.Atoi(v.String())
-	if level < 4 {
-		v.Set("4")
+	if level < MinVerbosity {
+		v.Set(strconv.Itoa(MinVerbosity))
 	}
 
 	if incomingServer != nil {
diff --git a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/README.md b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/README.md
index 536ce951354..5a6ea8d10ef 100644
--- a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/README.md
+++ b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/README.md
@@ -36,14 +36,14 @@ How To Run
 
 ```shell
 # In Kubernetes root path
-make test-integration WHAT=./test/integration/scheduler_perf KUBE_TEST_VMODULE="''" KUBE_TEST_ARGS="-alsologtostderr=true -logtostderr=true -run=." KUBE_TIMEOUT="--timeout=60m" SHORT="--short=false"
+make test-integration WHAT=./test/integration/scheduler_perf ETCD_LOGLEVEL=warn KUBE_TEST_VMODULE="''" KUBE_TEST_ARGS="-alsologtostderr=true -logtostderr=true -run=." KUBE_TIMEOUT="--timeout=60m" SHORT="--short=false"
 ```
 
 ## Benchmark tests
 
 ```shell
 # In Kubernetes root path
-make test-integration WHAT=./test/integration/scheduler_perf KUBE_TEST_VMODULE="''" KUBE_TEST_ARGS="-alsologtostderr=false -logtostderr=false -run=^$$ -benchtime=1ns -bench=BenchmarkPerfScheduling"
+make test-integration WHAT=./test/integration/scheduler_perf ETCD_LOGLEVEL=warn KUBE_TEST_VMODULE="''" KUBE_TEST_ARGS="-alsologtostderr=false -logtostderr=false -run=^$$ -benchtime=1ns -bench=BenchmarkPerfScheduling"
 ```
 
 The benchmark suite runs all the tests specified under config/performance-config.yaml.
@@ -58,14 +58,14 @@ Otherwise, the golang benchmark framework will try to run a test more than once
 
 ```shell
 # In Kubernetes root path
-make test-integration WHAT=./test/integration/scheduler_perf KUBE_TEST_VMODULE="''" KUBE_TEST_ARGS="-alsologtostderr=false -logtostderr=false -run=^$$ -benchtime=1ns -bench=BenchmarkPerfScheduling/SchedulingBasic/5000Nodes/5000InitPods/1000PodsToSchedule"
+make test-integration WHAT=./test/integration/scheduler_perf ETCD_LOGLEVEL=warn KUBE_TEST_VMODULE="''" KUBE_TEST_ARGS="-alsologtostderr=false -logtostderr=false -run=^$$ -benchtime=1ns -bench=BenchmarkPerfScheduling/SchedulingBasic/5000Nodes/5000InitPods/1000PodsToSchedule"
 ```
 
 To produce a cpu profile:
 
 ```shell
 # In Kubernetes root path
-make test-integration WHAT=./test/integration/scheduler_perf KUBE_TIMEOUT="-timeout=3600s" KUBE_TEST_VMODULE="''" KUBE_TEST_ARGS="-alsologtostderr=false -logtostderr=false -run=^$$ -benchtime=1ns -bench=BenchmarkPerfScheduling -cpuprofile ~/cpu-profile.out"
+make test-integration WHAT=./test/integration/scheduler_perf KUBE_TIMEOUT="-timeout=3600s" ETCD_LOGLEVEL=warn KUBE_TEST_VMODULE="''" KUBE_TEST_ARGS="-alsologtostderr=false -logtostderr=false -run=^$$ -benchtime=1ns -bench=BenchmarkPerfScheduling -cpuprofile ~/cpu-profile.out"
 ```
 
 ### How to configure benchmark tests
diff --git a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/config/performance-config.yaml b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/config/performance-config.yaml
index 20d79dcaeb4..ff75a1b3107 100644
--- a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/config/performance-config.yaml
+++ b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/config/performance-config.yaml
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@
       initPods: 2000
       measurePods: 1000
 
-- name: Preemption
+- name: PreemptionBasic
   workloadTemplate:
   - opcode: createNodes
     countParam: $initNodes
diff --git a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/scheduler_perf_test.go b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/scheduler_perf_test.go
index fbb7fb0134f..8cfa75f7b45 100644
--- a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/scheduler_perf_test.go
+++ b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/scheduler_perf_test.go
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ func BenchmarkPerfScheduling(b *testing.B) {
 		})
 	}
 	if err := dataItems2JSONFile(dataItems, b.Name()); err != nil {
-		klog.Fatalf("%v: unable to write measured data: %v", b.Name(), err)
+		klog.Fatalf("%v: unable to write measured data %+v: %v", b.Name(), dataItems, err)
 	}
 }
 
diff --git a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/util.go b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/util.go
index 5d9b809707a..6e84213788f 100644
--- a/test/integration/scheduler_perf/util.go
+++ b/test/integration/scheduler_perf/util.go
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ import (
 	"k8s.io/kube-scheduler/config/v1beta2"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/scheduler/apis/config"
 	kubeschedulerscheme "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/scheduler/apis/config/scheme"
+	"k8s.io/kubernetes/test/integration/framework"
 	"k8s.io/kubernetes/test/integration/util"
 	testutils "k8s.io/kubernetes/test/utils"
 )
@@ -74,6 +75,8 @@ func newDefaultComponentConfig() (*config.KubeSchedulerConfiguration, error) {
 // Notes on rate limiter:
 //   - client rate limit is set to 5000.
 func mustSetupScheduler(config *config.KubeSchedulerConfiguration) (util.ShutdownFunc, coreinformers.PodInformer, clientset.Interface, dynamic.Interface) {
+	// Run API server with minimimal logging by default. Can be raised with -v.
+	framework.MinVerbosity = 0
 	apiURL, apiShutdown := util.StartApiserver()
 	var err error