diff --git a/validate/launcher/baseclasses.py b/validate/launcher/baseclasses.py
index 7a9e586cc2..6f94da7a6d 100644
--- a/validate/launcher/baseclasses.py
+++ b/validate/launcher/baseclasses.py
@@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ class GstValidateListener(socketserver.BaseRequestHandler, Loggable):
 
             try:
                 obj = json.loads(msg)
-            except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError:
+            except json.decoder.JSONDecodeError as e:
                 self.error("Could not deserialize: %s - %s" % (msg, e))
                 continue