diff --git a/ingestion/src/metadata/profiler/orm/types/custom_hex_byte_string.py b/ingestion/src/metadata/profiler/orm/types/custom_hex_byte_string.py
index 1e27adb3ce33..e87afd234e88 100644
--- a/ingestion/src/metadata/profiler/orm/types/custom_hex_byte_string.py
+++ b/ingestion/src/metadata/profiler/orm/types/custom_hex_byte_string.py
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ def validate(value: bytes):
                 f"HexByteString columns support only bytes values. Received {type(value).__name__}."
             )
 
-    def process_result_value(self, value: str, dialect) -> Optional[str]:
+    def process_result_value(self, value: Optional[bytes], dialect) -> Optional[str]:
         """This is executed during result retrieval
 
         Args:
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ def process_result_value(self, value: str, dialect) -> Optional[str]:
                 value = bytes_value.decode(encoding=detected_encoding)
                 return value
             except Exception as exc:
+                logger.debug("Failed to parse bytes valud as string: %s", exc)
                 logger.debug(traceback.format_exc())
-                logger.error(exc)
 
         return value.hex()