diff --git a/src/core/server/saved_objects/serialization/serializer.test.ts b/src/core/server/saved_objects/serialization/serializer.test.ts
index 3fdeb4aa088e1..24eded55615c4 100644
--- a/src/core/server/saved_objects/serialization/serializer.test.ts
+++ b/src/core/server/saved_objects/serialization/serializer.test.ts
@@ -491,6 +491,52 @@ describe('#rawToSavedObject', () => {
       expect(actual).toHaveProperty('namespaces', ['baz']);
     });
   });
+
+  describe('throws if provided invalid type', () => {
+    expect(() =>
+      singleNamespaceSerializer.rawToSavedObject({
+        _id: 'foo:bar',
+        _source: {
+          // @ts-expect-error expects a string
+          // eslint-disable-next-line
+          type: new String('foo'),
+        },
+      })
+    ).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(
+      `"Expected saved object type to be a string but given [String] with [foo] value."`
+    );
+
+    expect(() =>
+      singleNamespaceSerializer.rawToSavedObject({
+        _id: 'foo:bar',
+        _source: {
+          // @ts-expect-error expects astring
+          type: {
+            toString() {
+              return 'foo';
+            },
+          },
+        },
+      })
+    ).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(
+      `"Expected saved object type to be a string but given [Object] with [foo] value."`
+    );
+  });
+
+  describe('throws if provided invalid id', () => {
+    expect(() =>
+      singleNamespaceSerializer.rawToSavedObject({
+        // @ts-expect-error expects a string
+        // eslint-disable-next-line
+        _id: new String('foo:bar'),
+        _source: {
+          type: 'foo',
+        },
+      })
+    ).toThrowErrorMatchingInlineSnapshot(
+      `"Expected document id to be a string but given [String] with [foo:bar] value."`
+    );
+  });
 });
 
 describe('#savedObjectToRaw', () => {
diff --git a/src/core/server/saved_objects/serialization/serializer.ts b/src/core/server/saved_objects/serialization/serializer.ts
index 5e27b3de24409..9d9d65e735866 100644
--- a/src/core/server/saved_objects/serialization/serializer.ts
+++ b/src/core/server/saved_objects/serialization/serializer.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
  * in compliance with, at your election, the Elastic License 2.0 or the Server
  * Side Public License, v 1.
  */
-
+import typeDetect from 'type-detect';
 import { LEGACY_URL_ALIAS_TYPE } from '../object_types';
 import { decodeVersion, encodeVersion } from '../version';
 import { ISavedObjectTypeRegistry } from '../saved_objects_type_registry';
@@ -236,6 +236,8 @@ function checkIdMatchesPrefix(id: string, prefix: string) {
 
 function assertNonEmptyString(value: string, name: string) {
   if (!value || typeof value !== 'string') {
-    throw new TypeError(`Expected "${value}" to be a ${name}`);
+    throw new TypeError(
+      `Expected ${name} to be a string but given [${typeDetect(value)}] with [${value}] value.`
+    );
   }
 }