diff --git a/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-common b/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-common
index fcd9c08f2..66c91aa7b 100755
--- a/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-common
+++ b/salt/common/tools/sbin/so-common
@@ -311,12 +311,19 @@ retry() {
                         if [[ "$output" =~ "$expectedOutput" ]]; then
                                 return $exitcode
                         else
-                                echo "Expected '$expectedOutput' but got '$output'"
+                                echo "Did not find expectedOutput: '$expectedOutput' in the output below from running the command: '$cmd'"
+								echo "<Start of output>"
+								echo "$output"
+								echo "<End of output>"
                         fi
                 elif [ -n "$failedOutput" ]; then
                         if [[ "$output" =~ "$failedOutput" ]]; then
-                                echo "Found failed output '$failedOutput' in '$output'. Setting exitcode to 1."
+                                echo "Found failedOutput: '$failedOutput' in the output below from running the command: '$cmd'"
+								echo "<Start of output>"
+								echo "$output"
+								echo "<End of output>"
 								if [[ $exitcode -eq 0 ]]; then
+									echo "The exitcode was 0, but we are setting to 1 since we found $failedOutput in the output."
 									exitcode=1
 								fi
                         else