diff --git a/src/main/java/net/snowflake/ingest/streaming/internal/StreamingIngestStage.java b/src/main/java/net/snowflake/ingest/streaming/internal/StreamingIngestStage.java
index e8e56f383..ed73e3774 100644
--- a/src/main/java/net/snowflake/ingest/streaming/internal/StreamingIngestStage.java
+++ b/src/main/java/net/snowflake/ingest/streaming/internal/StreamingIngestStage.java
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.nio.file.Paths;
+import java.time.Duration;
+import java.time.Instant;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Optional;
@@ -47,6 +49,11 @@ class StreamingIngestStage {
   private static final long REFRESH_THRESHOLD_IN_MS =
       TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.convert(1, TimeUnit.MINUTES);
 
+  // Stage credential refresh interval, currently the token will expire in 1hr for GCS and 2hr for
+  // AWS/Azure, so set it a bit smaller than 1hr
+  private static final Duration refreshDuration = Duration.ofMinutes(58);
+  private static Instant prevRefresh = Instant.EPOCH;
+
   private static final Logging logger = new Logging(StreamingIngestStage.class);
 
   /**
@@ -180,6 +187,12 @@ private void putRemote(String fullFilePath, byte[] data, int retryCount)
     InputStream inStream = new ByteArrayInputStream(data);
 
     try {
+      // Proactively refresh the credential if it's going to expire, to avoid the token expiration
+      // error from JDBC which confuses customer
+      if (Instant.now().isAfter(prevRefresh.plus(refreshDuration))) {
+        refreshSnowflakeMetadata();
+      }
+
       SnowflakeFileTransferAgent.uploadWithoutConnection(
           SnowflakeFileTransferConfig.Builder.newInstance()
               .setSnowflakeFileTransferMetadata(fileTransferMetadataCopy)
@@ -194,9 +207,6 @@ private void putRemote(String fullFilePath, byte[] data, int retryCount)
     } catch (Exception e) {
       if (retryCount == 0) {
         // for the first exception, we always perform a metadata refresh.
-        logger.logInfo(
-            "Stage metadata need to be refreshed due to upload error: {} on first retry attempt",
-            e.getMessage());
         this.refreshSnowflakeMetadata();
       }
       if (retryCount >= maxUploadRetries) {
@@ -281,6 +291,8 @@ synchronized SnowflakeFileTransferMetadataWithAge refreshSnowflakeMetadata(boole
                   SnowflakeFileTransferAgent.getFileTransferMetadatas(responseNode).get(0),
               Optional.of(System.currentTimeMillis()));
     }
+
+    prevRefresh = Instant.now();
     return this.fileTransferMetadataWithAge;
   }