diff --git a/engine-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/activityimpl/SimpleActivity.java b/engine-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/activityimpl/SimpleActivity.java
index 5378d4280..ac99ebee7 100644
--- a/engine-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/activityimpl/SimpleActivity.java
+++ b/engine-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/activityimpl/SimpleActivity.java
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ public class SimpleActivity implements Activity, ProgressCapable {
 
         if (stride>0 && (cycleCount % stride) != 0) {
             logger.warn("The stride does not evenly divide cycles. Only full strides will be executed," +
-                    "leaving some cycles unused.");
+                "leaving some cycles unused. (stride=" + stride + ", cycles=" + cycleCount + ")");
         }
 
         Optional<String> threadSpec = activityDef.getParams().getOptionalString("threads");
diff --git a/engine-api/src/test/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/util/SSLKsFactoryTest.java b/engine-api/src/test/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/util/SSLKsFactoryTest.java
index 7fcef152c..e21ea84a3 100644
--- a/engine-api/src/test/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/util/SSLKsFactoryTest.java
+++ b/engine-api/src/test/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/util/SSLKsFactoryTest.java
@@ -17,11 +17,10 @@
 
 package io.nosqlbench.engine.api.util;
 
-import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
-
+import io.nosqlbench.engine.api.activityimpl.ActivityDef;
 import org.junit.Test;
 
-import io.nosqlbench.engine.api.activityimpl.ActivityDef;
+import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
 
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
 import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatExceptionOfType;
@@ -141,8 +140,8 @@ public class SSLKsFactoryTest {
         };
         ActivityDef activityDef = ActivityDef.parseActivityDef(String.join(";", params));
         assertThatExceptionOfType(RuntimeException.class)
-                .isThrownBy(() -> SSLKsFactory.get().getContext(activityDef))
-                .withMessageMatching("Unable to init KeyManagerFactory. Please check.");
+            .isThrownBy(() -> SSLKsFactory.get().getContext(activityDef))
+            .withMessageMatching("Unable to init KeyManagerFactory. Please check.*");
     }
 
     @Test