diff --git a/dd-java-agent/agent-debugger/src/main/java/com/datadog/debugger/agent/DebuggerTransformer.java b/dd-java-agent/agent-debugger/src/main/java/com/datadog/debugger/agent/DebuggerTransformer.java
index 18f9adf76f1..ffcb5a006f0 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/agent-debugger/src/main/java/com/datadog/debugger/agent/DebuggerTransformer.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/agent-debugger/src/main/java/com/datadog/debugger/agent/DebuggerTransformer.java
@@ -275,7 +275,9 @@ public byte[] transform(
         return null;
       }
       ClassNode classNode = parseClassFile(classFilePath, classfileBuffer);
-      checkMethodParameters(classNode);
+      if (!checkMethodParameters(classNode, definitions, fullyQualifiedClassName)) {
+        return null;
+      }
       if (!checkRecordTypeAnnotation(classNode, definitions, fullyQualifiedClassName)) {
         return null;
       }
@@ -306,10 +308,11 @@ public byte[] transform(
    * instrumented the class, we will retransform for removing the instrumentation and then the
    * attribute is stripped. That's why we are preventing it even at load time.
    */
-  private void checkMethodParameters(ClassNode classNode) {
+  private boolean checkMethodParameters(
+      ClassNode classNode, List<ProbeDefinition> definitions, String fullyQualifiedClassName) {
     if (JAVA_AT_LEAST_19) {
       // bug is fixed since JDK19, no need to perform check
-      return;
+      return true;
     }
     boolean isRecord = ASMHelper.isRecord(classNode);
     // capping scanning of methods to 100 to avoid generated class with thousand of methods
@@ -328,13 +331,17 @@ private void checkMethodParameters(ClassNode classNode) {
       if (methodNode.parameters != null
           && !methodNode.parameters.isEmpty()
           && SpringHelper.isSpringUsingOnlyMethodParameters(DebuggerAgent.getInstrumentation())) {
-        throw new RuntimeException(
+        reportInstrumentationFails(
+            definitions,
+            fullyQualifiedClassName,
             "Method Parameters attribute detected, instrumentation not supported");
+        return false;
       } else {
         // we found at leat a method with one parameter if name is not present we can stop there
         break;
       }
     }
+    return true;
   }
 
   /*
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/agent-debugger/src/main/java/com/datadog/debugger/sink/DebuggerSink.java b/dd-java-agent/agent-debugger/src/main/java/com/datadog/debugger/sink/DebuggerSink.java
index 3c4e063c184..5c91e110acb 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/agent-debugger/src/main/java/com/datadog/debugger/sink/DebuggerSink.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/agent-debugger/src/main/java/com/datadog/debugger/sink/DebuggerSink.java
@@ -220,13 +220,11 @@ public void addDiagnostics(ProbeId probeId, List<DiagnosticMessage> messages) {
     for (DiagnosticMessage msg : messages) {
       switch (msg.getKind()) {
         case INFO:
-          LOGGER.info(msg.getMessage());
-          break;
         case WARN:
-          LOGGER.warn(msg.getMessage());
+          LOGGER.debug(msg.getMessage());
           break;
         case ERROR:
-          LOGGER.error(msg.getMessage());
+          LOGGER.debug(msg.getMessage());
           reportError(probeId, msg);
           break;
       }
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/agent-debugger/src/test/java/com/datadog/debugger/agent/CapturedSnapshotTest.java b/dd-java-agent/agent-debugger/src/test/java/com/datadog/debugger/agent/CapturedSnapshotTest.java
index fab74757970..a63114c2516 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/agent-debugger/src/test/java/com/datadog/debugger/agent/CapturedSnapshotTest.java
+++ b/dd-java-agent/agent-debugger/src/test/java/com/datadog/debugger/agent/CapturedSnapshotTest.java
@@ -3059,7 +3059,7 @@ public void methodParametersAttribute() throws Exception {
       verify(probeStatusSink, times(1)).addError(probeIdCaptor.capture(), strCaptor.capture());
       assertEquals(PROBE_ID.getId(), probeIdCaptor.getAllValues().get(0).getId());
       assertEquals(
-          "Instrumentation failed for CapturedSnapshot01: java.lang.RuntimeException: Method Parameters attribute detected, instrumentation not supported",
+          "Instrumentation failed for CapturedSnapshot01: Method Parameters attribute detected, instrumentation not supported",
           strCaptor.getAllValues().get(0));
     } else {
       Snapshot snapshot = assertOneSnapshot(listener);
@@ -3069,9 +3069,17 @@ public void methodParametersAttribute() throws Exception {
 
   @Test
   @EnabledForJreRange(min = JRE.JAVA_17)
-  public void methodParametersAttributeRecord() throws IOException, URISyntaxException {
+  public void methodParametersAttributeRecord() throws Exception {
     final String CLASS_NAME = "com.datadog.debugger.CapturedSnapshot29";
     final String RECORD_NAME = "com.datadog.debugger.MyRecord1";
+    Config config = mock(Config.class);
+    when(config.isDebuggerCodeOriginEnabled()).thenReturn(false);
+    when(config.isDebuggerExceptionEnabled()).thenReturn(false);
+    when(config.isDynamicInstrumentationEnabled()).thenReturn(false);
+    Instrumentation inst = mock(Instrumentation.class);
+    Class<?> springClass = Class.forName("org.springframework.core.SpringVersion");
+    when(inst.getAllLoadedClasses()).thenReturn(new Class[] {springClass});
+    DebuggerAgent.run(config, inst, null);
     TestSnapshotListener listener = installMethodProbeAtExit(RECORD_NAME, "<init>", null);
     Map<String, byte[]> buffers =
         compile(CLASS_NAME, SourceCompiler.DebugInfo.ALL, "17", Arrays.asList("-parameters"));
@@ -3089,7 +3097,7 @@ public void methodParametersAttributeRecord() throws IOException, URISyntaxExcep
       verify(probeStatusSink, times(1)).addError(probeIdCaptor.capture(), strCaptor.capture());
       assertEquals(PROBE_ID.getId(), probeIdCaptor.getAllValues().get(0).getId());
       assertEquals(
-          "Instrumentation failed for com.datadog.debugger.MyRecord1: java.lang.RuntimeException: Method Parameters attribute detected, instrumentation not supported",
+          "Instrumentation failed for com.datadog.debugger.MyRecord1: Method Parameters attribute detected, instrumentation not supported",
           strCaptor.getAllValues().get(0));
     }
   }