diff --git a/roles/ceph-common/templates/restart_osd_daemon.sh.j2 b/roles/ceph-common/templates/restart_osd_daemon.sh.j2
index 0f8411161..cb420aef6 100644
--- a/roles/ceph-common/templates/restart_osd_daemon.sh.j2
+++ b/roles/ceph-common/templates/restart_osd_daemon.sh.j2
@@ -13,7 +13,10 @@ check_pgs() {
     let RETRIES=RETRIES-1
   done
   # PGs not clean, exiting with return code 1
-  echo "Error with PGs, check config"
+  echo "Error while running 'ceph $CEPH_CLI -s', PGs were not reported as active+clean"
+  echo "It is possible that the cluster has less OSDs than the replica configuration"
+  echo "Will refuse to continue"
+  ceph $CEPH_CLI -s
   exit 1
 }