diff --git a/src/jobservice/job/impl/gc/garbage_collection.go b/src/jobservice/job/impl/gc/garbage_collection.go
index a58b71ca493..c5fb8a8a157 100644
--- a/src/jobservice/job/impl/gc/garbage_collection.go
+++ b/src/jobservice/job/impl/gc/garbage_collection.go
@@ -241,6 +241,8 @@ func (gc *GarbageCollector) mark(ctx job.Context) error {
 func (gc *GarbageCollector) sweep(ctx job.Context) error {
 	gc.logger = ctx.GetLogger()
 	sweepSize := int64(0)
+	blobCnt := 0
+	mfCnt := 0
 	for _, blob := range gc.deleteSet {
 		// set the status firstly, if the blob is updated by any HEAD/PUT request, it should be fail and skip.
 		blob.Status = blobModels.StatusDeleting
@@ -255,6 +257,7 @@ func (gc *GarbageCollector) sweep(ctx job.Context) error {
 		}
 
 		// remove tags and revisions of a manifest
+		skippedBlob := false
 		if _, exist := gc.trashedArts[blob.Digest]; exist && blob.IsManifest() {
 			for _, art := range gc.trashedArts[blob.Digest] {
 				// Harbor cannot know the existing tags in the backend from its database, so let the v2 DELETE manifest to remove all of them.
@@ -265,9 +268,11 @@ func (gc *GarbageCollector) sweep(ctx job.Context) error {
 					if err := ignoreNotFound(func() error {
 						return gc.markDeleteFailed(ctx, blob)
 					}); err != nil {
+						gc.logger.Errorf("failed to call gc.markDeleteFailed() after v2DeleteManifest() error out: %s, %v", blob.Digest, err)
 						return err
 					}
-					return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to delete manifest with v2 API: %s, %s", art.RepositoryName, blob.Digest)
+					skippedBlob = true
+					continue
 				}
 				// for manifest, it has to delete the revisions folder of each repository
 				gc.logger.Infof("delete manifest from storage: %s", blob.Digest)
@@ -278,23 +283,32 @@ func (gc *GarbageCollector) sweep(ctx job.Context) error {
 				}, retry.Callback(func(err error, sleep time.Duration) {
 					gc.logger.Infof("failed to exec DeleteManifest, error: %v, will retry again after: %s", err, sleep)
 				})); err != nil {
+					gc.logger.Errorf("failed to remove manifest from storage: %s, %s, errMsg=%v", art.RepositoryName, blob.Digest, err)
 					if err := ignoreNotFound(func() error {
 						return gc.markDeleteFailed(ctx, blob)
 					}); err != nil {
+						gc.logger.Errorf("failed to call gc.markDeleteFailed() after gc.registryCtlClient.DeleteManifest() error out: %s, %s, %v", art.RepositoryName, blob.Digest, err)
 						return err
 					}
-					return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to remove manifest from storage: %s, %s", art.RepositoryName, blob.Digest)
+					skippedBlob = true
+					continue
 				}
 
 				gc.logger.Infof("delete artifact trash record from database: %d, %s, %s", art.ID, art.RepositoryName, art.Digest)
 				if err := ignoreNotFound(func() error {
 					return gc.artrashMgr.Delete(ctx.SystemContext(), art.ID)
 				}); err != nil {
+					gc.logger.Errorf("failed to call gc.artrashMgr.Delete(): %v, errMsg=%v", art.ID, err)
 					return err
 				}
 			}
 		}
 
+		// skip deleting the blob if the manifest's tag/revision is not deleted
+		if skippedBlob {
+			continue
+		}
+
 		// delete all of blobs, which include config, layer and manifest
 		// for the foreign layer, as it's not stored in the storage, no need to call the delete api and count size, but still have to delete the DB record.
 		if !blob.IsForeignLayer() {
@@ -306,12 +320,14 @@ func (gc *GarbageCollector) sweep(ctx job.Context) error {
 			}, retry.Callback(func(err error, sleep time.Duration) {
 				gc.logger.Infof("failed to exec DeleteBlob, error: %v, will retry again after: %s", err, sleep)
 			})); err != nil {
+				gc.logger.Errorf("failed to delete blob from storage: %s, %s, errMsg=%v", blob.Digest, blob.Status, err)
 				if err := ignoreNotFound(func() error {
 					return gc.markDeleteFailed(ctx, blob)
 				}); err != nil {
+					gc.logger.Errorf("failed to call gc.markDeleteFailed() after gc.registryCtlClient.DeleteBlob() error out: %s, %v", blob.Digest, err)
 					return err
 				}
-				return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to delete blob from storage: %s, %s", blob.Digest, blob.Status)
+				continue
 			}
 			sweepSize = sweepSize + blob.Size
 		}
@@ -320,14 +336,22 @@ func (gc *GarbageCollector) sweep(ctx job.Context) error {
 		if err := ignoreNotFound(func() error {
 			return gc.blobMgr.Delete(ctx.SystemContext(), blob.ID)
 		}); err != nil {
+			gc.logger.Errorf("failed to delete blob from database: %s, %s, errMsg=%v", blob.Digest, blob.Status, err)
 			if err := ignoreNotFound(func() error {
 				return gc.markDeleteFailed(ctx, blob)
 			}); err != nil {
+				gc.logger.Errorf("failed to call gc.markDeleteFailed() after gc.blobMgr.Delete() error out, %d, %s %v", blob.ID, blob.Digest, err)
 				return err
 			}
-			return errors.Wrapf(err, "failed to delete blob from database: %s, %s", blob.Digest, blob.Status)
+			return err
+		}
+		if blob.IsManifest() {
+			mfCnt++
+		} else {
+			blobCnt++
 		}
 	}
+	gc.logger.Infof("%d blobs and %d manifests are actually deleted", blobCnt, mfCnt)
 	gc.logger.Infof("The GC job actual frees up %d MB space.", sweepSize/1024/1024)
 	return nil
 }