diff --git a/doc/source/admin/special_topics/bug_reports.rst b/doc/source/admin/special_topics/bug_reports.rst
index ef5ef431bf6..f2a6f79fe78 100644
--- a/doc/source/admin/special_topics/bug_reports.rst
+++ b/doc/source/admin/special_topics/bug_reports.rst
@@ -65,3 +65,8 @@ Sentry
 This refactors the existing on-failure submit-to-sentry behaviour into a bug
 reporting plugin. Now, for example, you are able to disable the automatic
 submission to sentry and only run that whenever the user reports it.
+
+When ``verbose="true" user_submission="true"``, the plugin will inform the user
+that ``Submitted bug report to Sentry. Your guru meditation number is
+dc907d44ce294f78b267a56f68e5cd1a``, using the same phrasing that is common to
+users from Galaxy internal server errors.
diff --git a/lib/galaxy/tools/error_reports/sinks/sentry.py b/lib/galaxy/tools/error_reports/sinks/sentry.py
index 40864e45727..c770d1d195b 100644
--- a/lib/galaxy/tools/error_reports/sinks/sentry.py
+++ b/lib/galaxy/tools/error_reports/sinks/sentry.py
@@ -41,11 +41,12 @@ class SentryPlugin( ErrorSinkPlugin ):
             if 'message' in kwargs:
                 extra['message'] = kwargs['message']
 
-            self.app.sentry_client.capture(
+            response = self.app.sentry_client.capture(
                 'raven.events.Message',
                 message="Galaxy Job Error: %s  v.%s" % (job.tool_id, job.tool_version),
                 extra=extra,
             )
+            return ( 'Submitted bug report to Sentry. Your guru meditation number is %s' % response, 'done' )
 
 
 __all__ = ( 'SentryPlugin', )