diff --git a/swift/cli/manage_shard_ranges.py b/swift/cli/manage_shard_ranges.py
index 63bc9bad61..7a43cd0267 100644
--- a/swift/cli/manage_shard_ranges.py
+++ b/swift/cli/manage_shard_ranges.py
@@ -654,6 +654,10 @@ def repair_shard_ranges(broker, args):
 
 def analyze_shard_ranges(args):
     shard_data = _load_and_validate_shard_data(args, require_index=False)
+    for data in shard_data:
+        # allow for incomplete shard range data that may have been scraped from
+        # swift-container-info output
+        data.setdefault('epoch', None)
     shard_ranges = [ShardRange.from_dict(data) for data in shard_data]
     whole_sr = ShardRange('whole/namespace', 0)
     try:
diff --git a/test/unit/cli/test_manage_shard_ranges.py b/test/unit/cli/test_manage_shard_ranges.py
index a7e2abbcea..d72ec5b482 100644
--- a/test/unit/cli/test_manage_shard_ranges.py
+++ b/test/unit/cli/test_manage_shard_ranges.py
@@ -1602,3 +1602,16 @@ class TestManageShardRanges(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(
             ['Repairs necessary to remove overlapping shard ranges.'],
             out_lines[:1])
+
+        filtered_shard_json = [{k: v for k, v in sr.items() if k != 'epoch'}
+                               for sr in shard_json]
+        with open(shard_file, 'w') as fd:
+            json.dump(filtered_shard_json, fd)
+        out = StringIO()
+        err = StringIO()
+        with mock.patch('sys.stdout', out), mock.patch('sys.stderr', err):
+            ret = main([shard_file, 'analyze'])
+        self.assertEqual(0, ret)
+        self.assertEqual('', err.getvalue())
+        new_out_lines = out.getvalue().split('\n')
+        self.assertEqual(out_lines, new_out_lines)