diff --git a/src/sentinel.c b/src/sentinel.c
index 4f2c6c0f..027817d1 100644
--- a/src/sentinel.c
+++ b/src/sentinel.c
@@ -183,6 +183,8 @@ typedef struct sentinelRedisInstance {
     mstime_t failover_state_change_time;
     mstime_t failover_start_time;   /* Last failover attempt start time. */
     mstime_t failover_timeout;      /* Max time to refresh failover state. */
+    mstime_t failover_delay_logged; /* For what failover_start_time value we
+                                       logged the failover delay. */
     struct sentinelRedisInstance *promoted_slave; /* Promoted slave instance. */
     /* Scripts executed to notify admin or reconfigure clients: when they
      * are set to NULL no script is executed. */
@@ -967,6 +969,7 @@ sentinelRedisInstance *createSentinelRedisInstance(char *name, int flags, char *
     ri->failover_state_change_time = 0;
     ri->failover_start_time = 0;
     ri->failover_timeout = SENTINEL_DEFAULT_FAILOVER_TIMEOUT;
+    ri->failover_delay_logged = 0;
     ri->promoted_slave = NULL;
     ri->notification_script = NULL;
     ri->client_reconfig_script = NULL;
@@ -3252,7 +3255,22 @@ int sentinelStartFailoverIfNeeded(sentinelRedisInstance *master) {
 
     /* Last failover attempt started too little time ago? */
     if (mstime() - master->failover_start_time <
-        master->failover_timeout*2) return 0;
+        master->failover_timeout*2)
+    {
+        if (master->failover_delay_logged != master->failover_start_time) {
+            time_t clock = (master->failover_start_time +
+                            master->failover_timeout*2) / 1000;
+            char ctimebuf[26];
+
+            ctime_r(&clock,ctimebuf);
+            ctimebuf[24] = '\0'; /* Remove newline. */
+            master->failover_delay_logged = master->failover_start_time;
+            redisLog(REDIS_WARNING,
+                "Next failover delay: I will not start a failover before %s",
+                ctimebuf);
+        }
+        return 0;
+    }
 
     sentinelStartFailover(master);
     return 1;