diff --git a/server/src/main/java/io/druid/client/ServerInventoryView.java b/server/src/main/java/io/druid/client/ServerInventoryView.java
index 2481c29b55c..b95dda08c91 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/io/druid/client/ServerInventoryView.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/io/druid/client/ServerInventoryView.java
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ package io.druid.client;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.type.TypeReference;
 import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.google.common.base.Charsets;
 import com.google.common.base.Function;
 import com.google.common.base.Throwables;
 import com.google.common.collect.MapMaker;
@@ -36,6 +37,8 @@ import io.druid.timeline.DataSegment;
 import org.apache.curator.framework.CuratorFramework;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+import java.nio.CharBuffer;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;
 import java.util.concurrent.Executor;
@@ -111,6 +114,8 @@ public abstract class ServerInventoryView<InventoryType> implements ServerView,
               return jsonMapper.readValue(bytes, typeReference);
             }
             catch (IOException e) {
+              CharBuffer charBuffer = Charsets.UTF_8.decode(ByteBuffer.wrap(bytes));
+              log.error(e, "Could not parse json: %s", charBuffer.toString());
               throw Throwables.propagate(e);
             }
           }