diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/dev-support/checks/findbugs.sh b/hadoop-ozone/dev-support/checks/findbugs.sh
index eaf8ec569d12..a665e359b891 100755
--- a/hadoop-ozone/dev-support/checks/findbugs.sh
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/dev-support/checks/findbugs.sh
@@ -20,12 +20,13 @@ MAVEN_OPTIONS='-B -fae -Dskip.npx -Dskip.installnpx'
 
 if ! type unionBugs >/dev/null 2>&1 || ! type convertXmlToText >/dev/null 2>&1; then
   #shellcheck disable=SC2086
-  mvn ${MAVEN_OPTIONS} compile spotbugs:check
+  mvn ${MAVEN_OPTIONS} test-compile spotbugs:check
   exit $?
 fi
 
 #shellcheck disable=SC2086
-mvn ${MAVEN_OPTIONS} compile spotbugs:spotbugs
+mvn ${MAVEN_OPTIONS} test-compile spotbugs:spotbugs
+rc=$?
 
 REPORT_DIR=${OUTPUT_DIR:-"$DIR/../../../target/findbugs"}
 mkdir -p "$REPORT_DIR"
@@ -42,3 +43,5 @@ wc -l "$REPORT_FILE" | awk '{print $1}'> "$REPORT_DIR/failures"
 if [[ -s "${REPORT_FILE}" ]]; then
    exit 1
 fi
+
+exit ${rc}
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/interface-storage/dev-support/findbugsExcludeFile.xml b/hadoop-ozone/interface-storage/dev-support/findbugsExcludeFile.xml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9492f9c5d481
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/interface-storage/dev-support/findbugsExcludeFile.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+<!--
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+-->
+<FindBugsFilter>
+  <Match>
+    <Package name="org.apache.hadoop.ozone.storage.proto"/>
+  </Match>
+</FindBugsFilter>
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/interface-storage/pom.xml b/hadoop-ozone/interface-storage/pom.xml
index 9f000bf8a7a1..5c9ae432baad 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/interface-storage/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/interface-storage/pom.xml
@@ -91,6 +91,13 @@
           </execution>
         </executions>
       </plugin>
+      <plugin>
+        <groupId>com.github.spotbugs</groupId>
+        <artifactId>spotbugs-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+        <configuration>
+          <excludeFilterFile>${basedir}/dev-support/findbugsExcludeFile.xml</excludeFilterFile>
+        </configuration>
+      </plugin>
     </plugins>
   </build>
-</project>
\ No newline at end of file
+</project>