diff --git a/core/src/main/scala/kafka/log/LogCleaner.scala b/core/src/main/scala/kafka/log/LogCleaner.scala
index 254720c1173b8..218c2f36340d9 100644
--- a/core/src/main/scala/kafka/log/LogCleaner.scala
+++ b/core/src/main/scala/kafka/log/LogCleaner.scala
@@ -115,12 +115,11 @@ class LogCleaner(initialConfig: CleanerConfig,
   private[log] val cleaners = mutable.ArrayBuffer[CleanerThread]()
 
   /**
-   * scala 2.12 does not support maxOption so we handle the empty manually.
    * @param f to compute the result
-   * @return the max value (int value) or 0 if there is no cleaner
+   * @return the max value or 0 if there is no cleaner
    */
-  private def maxOverCleanerThreads(f: CleanerThread => Double): Double =
-    cleaners.foldLeft(0.0d)((max: Double, thread: CleanerThread) => math.max(max, f(thread)))
+  private[log] def maxOverCleanerThreads(f: CleanerThread => Double): Double =
+    cleaners.map(f).maxOption.getOrElse(0.0d)
 
   /* a metric to track the maximum utilization of any thread's buffer in the last cleaning */
   metricsGroup.newGauge(MaxBufferUtilizationPercentMetricName,
diff --git a/core/src/test/scala/unit/kafka/log/LogCleanerTest.scala b/core/src/test/scala/unit/kafka/log/LogCleanerTest.scala
index f7746c7a69b94..b07bc48755adc 100644
--- a/core/src/test/scala/unit/kafka/log/LogCleanerTest.scala
+++ b/core/src/test/scala/unit/kafka/log/LogCleanerTest.scala
@@ -2045,6 +2045,34 @@ class LogCleanerTest extends Logging {
     }
   }
 
+  @Test
+  def testMaxOverCleanerThreads(): Unit = {
+    val logCleaner =  new LogCleaner(new CleanerConfig(true),
+      logDirs = Array(TestUtils.tempDir(), TestUtils.tempDir()),
+      logs = new Pool[TopicPartition, UnifiedLog](),
+      logDirFailureChannel = new LogDirFailureChannel(1),
+      time = time)
+
+    val cleaners = logCleaner.cleaners
+
+    val cleaner1 = new logCleaner.CleanerThread(1)
+    cleaner1.lastStats = new CleanerStats(time)
+    cleaner1.lastStats.bufferUtilization = 0.75
+    cleaners += cleaner1
+
+    val cleaner2 = new logCleaner.CleanerThread(2)
+    cleaner2.lastStats = new CleanerStats(time)
+    cleaner2.lastStats.bufferUtilization = 0.85
+    cleaners += cleaner2
+
+    val cleaner3 = new logCleaner.CleanerThread(3)
+    cleaner3.lastStats = new CleanerStats(time)
+    cleaner3.lastStats.bufferUtilization = 0.65
+    cleaners += cleaner3
+
+    assertEquals(0.85, logCleaner.maxOverCleanerThreads(_.lastStats.bufferUtilization))
+  }
+
   private def writeToLog(log: UnifiedLog, keysAndValues: Iterable[(Int, Int)], offsetSeq: Iterable[Long]): Iterable[Long] = {
     for (((key, value), offset) <- keysAndValues.zip(offsetSeq))
       yield log.appendAsFollower(messageWithOffset(key, value, offset)).lastOffset