diff --git a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/DetermineHashedPartitionsJob.java b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/DetermineHashedPartitionsJob.java
index 6fb8a81bf128..0716e162feeb 100644
--- a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/DetermineHashedPartitionsJob.java
+++ b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/DetermineHashedPartitionsJob.java
@@ -284,8 +284,7 @@ protected void setup(Context context)
     @Override
     protected void innerMap(
         InputRow inputRow,
-        Context context,
-        boolean reportParseExceptions
+        Context context
     ) throws IOException
     {
 
diff --git a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/DeterminePartitionsJob.java b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/DeterminePartitionsJob.java
index ec1039dde39d..274861291103 100644
--- a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/DeterminePartitionsJob.java
+++ b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/DeterminePartitionsJob.java
@@ -313,8 +313,7 @@ protected void setup(Context context)
     @Override
     protected void innerMap(
         InputRow inputRow,
-        Context context,
-        boolean reportParseExceptions
+        Context context
     ) throws IOException, InterruptedException
     {
       final List<Object> groupKey = Rows.toGroupKey(
@@ -395,8 +394,7 @@ protected void setup(Context context)
     @Override
     protected void innerMap(
         InputRow inputRow,
-        Context context,
-        boolean reportParseExceptions
+        Context context
     ) throws IOException, InterruptedException
     {
       final Map<String, Iterable<String>> dims = Maps.newHashMap();
diff --git a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopDruidIndexerConfig.java b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopDruidIndexerConfig.java
index 2c41a3fc07e9..b1b2f7fc894c 100644
--- a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopDruidIndexerConfig.java
+++ b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopDruidIndexerConfig.java
@@ -308,11 +308,6 @@ public boolean isOverwriteFiles()
     return schema.getTuningConfig().isOverwriteFiles();
   }
 
-  public boolean isIgnoreInvalidRows()
-  {
-    return schema.getTuningConfig().isIgnoreInvalidRows();
-  }
-
   public void setShardSpecs(Map<Long, List<HadoopyShardSpec>> shardSpecs)
   {
     this.schema = schema.withTuningConfig(schema.getTuningConfig().withShardSpecs(shardSpecs));
diff --git a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopDruidIndexerMapper.java b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopDruidIndexerMapper.java
index 48f6b1da4e09..02ced6cf10c6 100644
--- a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopDruidIndexerMapper.java
+++ b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopDruidIndexerMapper.java
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ public abstract class HadoopDruidIndexerMapper<KEYOUT, VALUEOUT> extends Mapper<
   protected HadoopDruidIndexerConfig config;
   private InputRowParser parser;
   protected GranularitySpec granularitySpec;
-  private boolean reportParseExceptions;
 
   @Override
   protected void setup(Context context)
@@ -54,7 +53,6 @@ protected void setup(Context context)
     config = HadoopDruidIndexerConfig.fromConfiguration(context.getConfiguration());
     parser = config.getParser();
     granularitySpec = config.getGranularitySpec();
-    reportParseExceptions = !config.isIgnoreInvalidRows();
   }
 
   public HadoopDruidIndexerConfig getConfig()
@@ -88,7 +86,7 @@ protected void map(Object key, Object value, Context context) throws IOException
           if (!granularitySpec.bucketIntervals().isPresent()
               || granularitySpec.bucketInterval(DateTimes.utc(inputRow.getTimestampFromEpoch()))
                                 .isPresent()) {
-            innerMap(inputRow, context, reportParseExceptions);
+            innerMap(inputRow, context);
           } else {
             context.getCounter(HadoopDruidIndexerConfig.IndexJobCounters.ROWS_THROWN_AWAY_COUNTER).increment(1);
           }
@@ -147,7 +145,7 @@ private static List<InputRow> parseInputRow(Object value, InputRowParser parser)
     }
   }
 
-  protected abstract void innerMap(InputRow inputRow, Context context, boolean reportParseExceptions)
+  protected abstract void innerMap(InputRow inputRow, Context context)
       throws IOException, InterruptedException;
 
 }
diff --git a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopTuningConfig.java b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopTuningConfig.java
index 1f17fb89fe86..502066ce1de5 100644
--- a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopTuningConfig.java
+++ b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopTuningConfig.java
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ public static HadoopTuningConfig makeDefaultTuningConfig()
   private final boolean leaveIntermediate;
   private final Boolean cleanupOnFailure;
   private final boolean overwriteFiles;
-  private final boolean ignoreInvalidRows;
+  private final Boolean ignoreInvalidRows;
   private final Map<String, String> jobProperties;
   private final boolean combineText;
   private final boolean useCombiner;
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ public HadoopTuningConfig(
       final @JsonProperty("leaveIntermediate") boolean leaveIntermediate,
       final @JsonProperty("cleanupOnFailure") Boolean cleanupOnFailure,
       final @JsonProperty("overwriteFiles") boolean overwriteFiles,
-      final @Deprecated @JsonProperty("ignoreInvalidRows") boolean ignoreInvalidRows,
+      final @Deprecated @JsonProperty("ignoreInvalidRows") Boolean ignoreInvalidRows,
       final @JsonProperty("jobProperties") Map<String, String> jobProperties,
       final @JsonProperty("combineText") boolean combineText,
       final @JsonProperty("useCombiner") Boolean useCombiner,
@@ -138,7 +138,6 @@ public HadoopTuningConfig(
     this.leaveIntermediate = leaveIntermediate;
     this.cleanupOnFailure = cleanupOnFailure == null ? true : cleanupOnFailure;
     this.overwriteFiles = overwriteFiles;
-    this.ignoreInvalidRows = ignoreInvalidRows;
     this.jobProperties = (jobProperties == null
                           ? ImmutableMap.of()
                           : ImmutableMap.copyOf(jobProperties));
@@ -152,10 +151,16 @@ public HadoopTuningConfig(
     this.useExplicitVersion = useExplicitVersion;
     this.allowedHadoopPrefix = allowedHadoopPrefix == null ? ImmutableList.of() : allowedHadoopPrefix;
 
-    if (!this.ignoreInvalidRows) {
-      this.maxParseExceptions = 0;
+
+    this.ignoreInvalidRows = ignoreInvalidRows;
+    if (maxParseExceptions != null) {
+      this.maxParseExceptions = maxParseExceptions;
     } else {
-      this.maxParseExceptions = maxParseExceptions == null ? TuningConfig.DEFAULT_MAX_PARSE_EXCEPTIONS : maxParseExceptions;
+      if (ignoreInvalidRows == null || !ignoreInvalidRows) {
+        this.maxParseExceptions = 0;
+      } else {
+        this.maxParseExceptions = TuningConfig.DEFAULT_MAX_PARSE_EXCEPTIONS;
+      }
     }
     this.logParseExceptions = logParseExceptions == null ? TuningConfig.DEFAULT_LOG_PARSE_EXCEPTIONS : logParseExceptions;
   }
@@ -221,7 +226,7 @@ public boolean isOverwriteFiles()
   }
 
   @JsonProperty
-  public boolean isIgnoreInvalidRows()
+  public Boolean isIgnoreInvalidRows()
   {
     return ignoreInvalidRows;
   }
diff --git a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/IndexGeneratorJob.java b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/IndexGeneratorJob.java
index ac34c755ae95..6bf786be5a66 100644
--- a/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/IndexGeneratorJob.java
+++ b/indexing-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/IndexGeneratorJob.java
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ private static IncrementalIndex makeIncrementalIndex(
 
     IncrementalIndex newIndex = new IncrementalIndex.Builder()
         .setIndexSchema(indexSchema)
-        .setReportParseExceptions(!tuningConfig.isIgnoreInvalidRows())
+        .setReportParseExceptions(!tuningConfig.isIgnoreInvalidRows()) // only used by OffHeapIncrementalIndex
         .setMaxRowCount(tuningConfig.getRowFlushBoundary())
         .setMaxBytesInMemory(TuningConfigs.getMaxBytesInMemoryOrDefault(tuningConfig.getMaxBytesInMemory()))
         .buildOnheap();
@@ -334,8 +334,7 @@ protected void setup(Context context)
     @Override
     protected void innerMap(
         InputRow inputRow,
-        Context context,
-        boolean reportParseExceptions
+        Context context
     ) throws IOException, InterruptedException
     {
       // Group by bucket, sort by timestamp
diff --git a/indexing-hadoop/src/test/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopDruidIndexerMapperTest.java b/indexing-hadoop/src/test/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopDruidIndexerMapperTest.java
index 8630d13bdcac..43ca77d6217b 100644
--- a/indexing-hadoop/src/test/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopDruidIndexerMapperTest.java
+++ b/indexing-hadoop/src/test/java/org/apache/druid/indexer/HadoopDruidIndexerMapperTest.java
@@ -262,8 +262,7 @@ public static class MyMapper extends HadoopDruidIndexerMapper
     @Override
     protected void innerMap(
         final InputRow inputRow,
-        final Context context,
-        final boolean reportParseExceptions
+        final Context context
     )
     {
       rows.add(inputRow);
diff --git a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/incremental/IncrementalIndex.java b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/incremental/IncrementalIndex.java
index c496d0237144..f95fba867133 100644
--- a/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/incremental/IncrementalIndex.java
+++ b/processing/src/main/java/org/apache/druid/segment/incremental/IncrementalIndex.java
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ public ColumnCapabilities getColumnCapabilities(String columnName)
   private final AggregatorFactory[] metrics;
   private final AggregatorType[] aggs;
   private final boolean deserializeComplexMetrics;
-  private final boolean reportParseExceptions;
+  private final boolean reportParseExceptions; // only used by OffHeapIncrementalIndex
   private final Metadata metadata;
 
   private final Map<String, MetricDesc> metricDescs;