diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index b3dca28f2b..015e7fd256 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ jobs:
           # temporarily sending to #cni-acceptance-tests channel
           channel: C03V3K0040G
           fail_only: true
-          failure_message: "Acceptance tests for CNI against AKS failed. Check the logs at: ${CIRCLE_BUILD_URL}"
+          failure_message: "AKS CNI acceptance tests failed. Check the logs at: ${CIRCLE_BUILD_URL}"
 
   acceptance-eks-1-19:
     parallelism: 6