diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index bac753cd..70f407f8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file
 automatically by Versionist. DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE MANUALLY!
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## v6.2.7 - 2017-09-01
+
+* Prefer err.message when reporting errors from dockerode, then err.json and err.reason #490 [Pablo Carranza Velez]
+
 ## v6.2.6 - 2017-08-29
 
 * Add a sync.js script to allow syncing a running supervisor container on a local device #494 [Pablo Carranza Velez]
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index ff2c5c15..56a0cdf3 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "resin-supervisor",
   "description": "This is resin.io's Supervisor, a program that runs on IoT devices and has the task of running user Apps (which are Docker containers), and updating them as Resin's API informs it to.",
-  "version": "6.2.6",
+  "version": "6.2.7",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",
diff --git a/src/application.coffee b/src/application.coffee
index de652be9..338f8732 100644
--- a/src/application.coffee
+++ b/src/application.coffee
@@ -130,11 +130,11 @@ logSystemEvent = (logType, app = {}, error) ->
 	message = "#{logType.humanName} '#{app.imageId}'"
 	if error?
 		# Report the message from the original cause to the user.
-		errMessage = error.json
+		errMessage = error.message
+		if _.isEmpty(errMessage)
+			errMessage = error.json
 		if _.isEmpty(errMessage)
 			errMessage = error.reason
-		if _.isEmpty(errMessage)
-			errMessage = error.message
 		if _.isEmpty(errMessage)
 			errMessage = 'Unknown cause'
 		message += " due to '#{errMessage}'"