diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/reporting/common/errors/index.ts b/x-pack/plugins/reporting/common/errors/index.ts
index 9da4173aef91f..3a027ce8d29a0 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/reporting/common/errors/index.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/reporting/common/errors/index.ts
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@
 /* eslint-disable max-classes-per-file */
 import { i18n } from '@kbn/i18n';
 
+export interface ReportingError {
+  /**
+   * Return a message describing the error that is human friendly
+   */
+  humanFriendlyMessage?(): string;
+}
 export abstract class ReportingError extends Error {
   /**
    * A string that uniquely brands an error type. This is used to power telemetry
@@ -87,17 +93,10 @@ export class PdfWorkerOutOfMemoryError extends ReportingError {
     return PdfWorkerOutOfMemoryError.code;
   }
 
-  details = i18n.translate('xpack.reporting.common.pdfWorkerOutOfMemoryErrorMessage', {
-    defaultMessage:
-      'Cannot generate PDF due to low memory. Consider making a smaller PDF before retrying this report.',
-  });
-
-  /**
-   * No need to provide extra details, we know exactly what happened and can provide
-   * a nicely formatted message
-   */
-  public override get message(): string {
-    return this.details;
+  public humanFriendlyMessage() {
+    return i18n.translate('xpack.reporting.common.pdfWorkerOutOfMemoryErrorMessage', {
+      defaultMessage: `Can't generate a PDF due to insufficient memory. Try making a smaller PDF and retrying this report.`,
+    });
   }
 }
 
@@ -107,16 +106,10 @@ export class BrowserCouldNotLaunchError extends ReportingError {
     return BrowserCouldNotLaunchError.code;
   }
 
-  details = i18n.translate('xpack.reporting.common.browserCouldNotLaunchErrorMessage', {
-    defaultMessage: 'Cannot generate screenshots because the browser did not launch.',
-  });
-
-  /**
-   * For this error message we expect that users will use the diagnostics
-   * functionality in reporting to debug further.
-   */
-  public override get message() {
-    return this.details;
+  public humanFriendlyMessage() {
+    return i18n.translate('xpack.reporting.common.browserCouldNotLaunchErrorMessage', {
+      defaultMessage: `Can't generate screenshots because the browser did not launch. See the server logs for more information.`,
+    });
   }
 }
 
@@ -151,12 +144,9 @@ export class VisualReportingSoftDisabledError extends ReportingError {
     return VisualReportingSoftDisabledError.code;
   }
 
-  details = i18n.translate('xpack.reporting.common.cloud.insufficientSystemMemoryError', {
-    defaultMessage:
-      'This report cannot be generated because Kibana does not have sufficient memory.',
-  });
-
-  public override get message() {
-    return this.details;
+  humanFriendlyMessage() {
+    return i18n.translate('xpack.reporting.common.cloud.insufficientSystemMemoryError', {
+      defaultMessage: `Can't generate this report due to insufficient memory.`,
+    });
   }
 }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/reporting/server/lib/tasks/execute_report.ts b/x-pack/plugins/reporting/server/lib/tasks/execute_report.ts
index 73dc29801ac0d..ca3ba4445f940 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/reporting/server/lib/tasks/execute_report.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/reporting/server/lib/tasks/execute_report.ts
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ export class ExecuteReportTask implements ReportingTask {
       docOutput.error_code = output.error_code;
     } else {
       const defaultOutput = null;
-      docOutput.content = output.toString() || defaultOutput;
+      docOutput.content = output.humanFriendlyMessage?.() || output.toString() || defaultOutput;
       docOutput.content_type = unknownMime;
       docOutput.warnings = [output.toString()];
       docOutput.error_code = output.code;