diff --git a/test/integration/translation_failures_test.go b/test/integration/translation_failures_test.go
index 4459c9ecd8..f03ee07e3c 100644
--- a/test/integration/translation_failures_test.go
+++ b/test/integration/translation_failures_test.go
@@ -127,7 +127,8 @@ func TestTranslationFailures(t *testing.T) {
 				return expectedTranslationFailure{
 					// expect event for service2 as it doesn't have annotations that service1 has
 					causingObjects: []client.Object{service2},
-					reasonContains: "when multiple services comprise a backend all kong annotations between them must be set to the same value",
+					reasonContains: "All Services in a multi-Service backend must have matching Kong annotations. " +
+						"Review the associated route resource and align annotations in its multi-Service backends.",
 				}
 			},
 		},