diff --git a/OpenSim/Framework/Communications/Cache/AssetServerBase.cs b/OpenSim/Framework/Communications/Cache/AssetServerBase.cs
index 053cb0f8d5..74b19762a9 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Framework/Communications/Cache/AssetServerBase.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Framework/Communications/Cache/AssetServerBase.cs
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ using System.Threading;
 using libsecondlife;
 using log4net;
 using OpenSim.Framework.AssetLoader.Filesystem;
+using OpenSim.Framework.Statistics;
 
 namespace OpenSim.Framework.Communications.Cache
 {
@@ -80,6 +81,9 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Communications.Cache
             {
                 m_log.ErrorFormat("[ASSET]: Asset request for {0} threw exception {1}", req.AssetID, e);
                 
+                if (StatsManager.SimExtraStats != null)
+                    StatsManager.SimExtraStats.AddAssetServiceRequestFailure();
+                
                 m_receiver.AssetNotFound(req.AssetID, req.IsTexture);
                 
                 return;
@@ -87,13 +91,13 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Communications.Cache
 
             if (asset != null)
             {
-                m_log.DebugFormat("[ASSET]: Asset {0} received from asset server", req.AssetID);
+                //m_log.DebugFormat("[ASSET]: Asset {0} received from asset server", req.AssetID);
 
                 m_receiver.AssetReceived(asset, req.IsTexture);
             }
             else
             {
-                m_log.WarnFormat("[ASSET]: Asset {0} not found by asset server", req.AssetID);
+                //m_log.WarnFormat("[ASSET]: Asset {0} not found by asset server", req.AssetID);
 
                 m_receiver.AssetNotFound(req.AssetID, req.IsTexture);
             }
diff --git a/OpenSim/Framework/Statistics/SimExtraStatsCollector.cs b/OpenSim/Framework/Statistics/SimExtraStatsCollector.cs
index 6c67c9e6e5..968ed3f818 100644
--- a/OpenSim/Framework/Statistics/SimExtraStatsCollector.cs
+++ b/OpenSim/Framework/Statistics/SimExtraStatsCollector.cs
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Statistics
         private long textureCacheMemoryUsage;
         private long blockedMissingTextureRequests;
 
+        private long assetServiceRequestFailures;
         private long inventoryServiceRetrievalFailures;
         
         /// <summary>
@@ -71,6 +72,13 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Statistics
         /// </summary>
         public long BlockedMissingTextureRequests { get { return blockedMissingTextureRequests; } }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Record the number of times that an asset request has failed.  Failures are effectively exceptions, such as
+        /// request timeouts.  If an asset service replies that a particular asset cannot be found, this is not counted
+        /// as a failure
+        /// </summary>
+        public long AssetServiceRequestFailures { get { return assetServiceRequestFailures; } }
+        
         /// <summary>
         /// Number of known failures to retrieve avatar inventory from the inventory service.  This does not
         /// cover situations where the inventory service accepts the request but never returns any data, since
@@ -122,6 +130,11 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Statistics
             blockedMissingTextureRequests++;
         }
 
+        public void AddAssetServiceRequestFailure()
+        {
+            assetServiceRequestFailures++;
+        }
+        
         public void AddInventoryServiceRetrievalFailure()
         {
             inventoryServiceRetrievalFailures++;
@@ -163,18 +176,14 @@ namespace OpenSim.Framework.Statistics
             sb.Append(Environment.NewLine);
             sb.Append(
                 string.Format(
-@"Asset   cache contains {0,6} assets   using {1,10} K" + Environment.NewLine,
-                    AssetsInCache, Math.Round(AssetCacheMemoryUsage / 1024.0)));
-
-            sb.Append(Environment.NewLine);
-            sb.Append("TEXTURE STATISTICS");
-            sb.Append(Environment.NewLine);
-            sb.Append(
-                string.Format(
-@"Texture cache contains {0,6} textures using {1,10} K
-Blocked requests for missing textures: {2}" + Environment.NewLine,
-                    TexturesInCache, Math.Round(TextureCacheMemoryUsage / 1024.0),
-                    BlockedMissingTextureRequests));
+@"Asset cache contains   {0,6} non-texture assets using {1,10} K
+Texture cache contains {2,6} texture     assets using {3,10} K
+Blocked client requests for missing textures: {4}
+Asset service request failures: {5}"+ Environment.NewLine,
+                    AssetsInCache, Math.Round(AssetCacheMemoryUsage / 1024.0),
+                    TexturesInCache, Math.Round(TextureCacheMemoryUsage / 1024.0), 
+                    BlockedMissingTextureRequests,
+                    AssetServiceRequestFailures));
             
             sb.Append(Environment.NewLine);
             sb.Append("CONNECTION STATISTICS");