diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5cb195e..dcd24a0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 ### Changed
 
 - Update syscall, arches, and audit msg type tables for Linux 5.16. [#96](https://github.com/elastic/go-libaudit/pull/96)
+- Fixed error messages from `AddRule()` in the audit client. [#103](https://github.com/elastic/go-libaudit/pull/103)
 
 ### Removed
 
diff --git a/audit.go b/audit.go
index 250676d..0b9c39b 100644
--- a/audit.go
+++ b/audit.go
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ func (c *AuditClient) GetRules() ([][]byte, error) {
 	for {
 		reply, err := c.getReply(seq)
 		if err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed receive rule data: %w", err)
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed receiving rule data: %w", err)
 		}
 
 		if reply.Header.Type == syscall.NLMSG_DONE {
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ func (c *AuditClient) DeleteRule(rule []byte) error {
 	// Send AUDIT_DEL_RULE message to the kernel.
 	seq, err := c.Netlink.Send(msg)
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed sending delete request: %w", err)
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed sending delete rule request: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	_, err = c.getReply(seq)
@@ -283,12 +283,12 @@ func (c *AuditClient) AddRule(rule []byte) error {
 	// Send AUDIT_ADD_RULE message to the kernel.
 	seq, err := c.Netlink.Send(msg)
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed sending delete request: %w", err)
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed sending add rule request: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	ack, err := c.getReply(seq)
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("failed to get ACK to rule delete request: %w", err)
+		return fmt.Errorf("failed to get ACK to add rule request: %w", err)
 	}
 
 	if ack.Header.Type != syscall.NLMSG_ERROR {