diff --git a/qa/workunits/cephtool/test.sh b/qa/workunits/cephtool/test.sh
index 2d28950d1626d..7dc2f5a891a37 100755
--- a/qa/workunits/cephtool/test.sh
+++ b/qa/workunits/cephtool/test.sh
@@ -1530,6 +1530,31 @@ function test_mon_osd()
   ceph osd dump | grep 'osd.0.*in'
   ceph osd find 0
 
+  ceph osd info 0
+  ceph osd info osd.0
+  expect_false ceph osd info osd.xyz
+  expect_false ceph osd info xyz
+  expect_false ceph osd info 42
+  expect_false ceph osd info osd.42
+
+  ceph osd info
+  info_json=$(ceph osd info --format=json | jq -cM '.')
+  dump_json=$(ceph osd dump --format=json | jq -cM '.osds')
+  [[ "${info_json}" == "${dump_json}" ]]
+
+  info_json=$(ceph osd info 0 --format=json | jq -cM '.')
+  dump_json=$(ceph osd dump --format=json | \
+	  jq -cM '.osds[] | select(.osd == 0)')
+  [[ "${info_json}" == "${dump_json}" ]]
+  
+  info_plain="$(ceph osd info)"
+  dump_plain="$(ceph osd dump | grep '^osd')"
+  [[ "${info_plain}" == "${dump_plain}" ]]
+
+  info_plain="$(ceph osd info 0)"
+  dump_plain="$(ceph osd dump | grep '^osd.0')"
+  [[ "${info_plain}" == "${dump_plain}" ]]
+
   ceph osd add-nodown 0 1
   ceph health detail | grep 'NODOWN'
   ceph osd rm-nodown 0 1
diff --git a/src/mon/MonCommands.h b/src/mon/MonCommands.h
index fc86c4d2c36c9..880fa298db4ac 100644
--- a/src/mon/MonCommands.h
+++ b/src/mon/MonCommands.h
@@ -494,6 +494,10 @@ COMMAND("osd stat", "print summary of OSD map", "osd", "r")
 COMMAND("osd dump " \
 	"name=epoch,type=CephInt,range=0,req=false",
 	"print summary of OSD map", "osd", "r")
+COMMAND("osd info " \
+	"name=id,type=CephOsdName,req=false",
+	"print osd's {id} information (instead of all osds from map)",
+	"osd", "r")
 COMMAND("osd tree " \
 	"name=epoch,type=CephInt,range=0,req=false " \
 	"name=states,type=CephChoices,strings=up|down|in|out|destroyed,n=N,req=false", \
diff --git a/src/mon/OSDMonitor.cc b/src/mon/OSDMonitor.cc
index 86d9eb486e2c9..3bab021fd104b 100644
--- a/src/mon/OSDMonitor.cc
+++ b/src/mon/OSDMonitor.cc
@@ -4822,7 +4822,8 @@ bool OSDMonitor::preprocess_command(MonOpRequestRef op)
 	   prefix == "osd ls" ||
 	   prefix == "osd getmap" ||
 	   prefix == "osd getcrushmap" ||
-	   prefix == "osd ls-tree") {
+	   prefix == "osd ls-tree" ||
+	   prefix == "osd info") {
     string val;
 
     epoch_t epoch = 0;
@@ -4889,6 +4890,34 @@ bool OSDMonitor::preprocess_command(MonOpRequestRef op)
 	}
       }
       rdata.append(ds);
+    } else if (prefix == "osd info") {
+      int64_t osd_id;
+      bool do_single_osd = true;
+      if (!cmd_getval(cct, cmdmap, "id", osd_id)) {
+	do_single_osd = false;
+      }
+
+      if (do_single_osd && !osdmap.exists(osd_id)) {
+	ss << "osd." << osd_id << " does not exist";
+	r = -EINVAL;
+	goto reply;
+      }
+
+      if (f) {
+	if (do_single_osd) {
+	  osdmap.dump_osd(osd_id, f.get());
+	} else {
+	  osdmap.dump_osds(f.get());
+	}
+	f->flush(ds);
+      } else {
+	if (do_single_osd) {
+	  osdmap.print_osd(osd_id, ds);
+	} else {
+	  osdmap.print_osds(ds);
+	}
+      }
+      rdata.append(ds);
     } else if (prefix == "osd tree" || prefix == "osd tree-from") {
       string bucket;
       if (prefix == "osd tree-from") {