diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index b0f2610b7..0016cc00e 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -787,7 +787,7 @@ kibana_backport_streams_index_template() {
     current_template=$(so-elasticsearch-query "_index_template/.kibana_streams" --retry 3 --retry-delay 5 --fail)
 
     if [[ -z "$current_template" ]]; then
-        echo "Unable to retrieve current .kibana_streams index template, skipping backport."
+        echo "Index template .kibana_streams does not exist, skipping backport."
         return 0
     fi