diff --git a/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/EdgeScriptForm.tsx b/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/EdgeScriptForm.tsx
index cc8e2bc77..411acb5c2 100644
--- a/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/EdgeScriptForm.tsx
+++ b/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/EdgeScriptForm.tsx
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ const edgePropertiesFormInitialValues: ScriptFormValues = {
   edgeGroupsIds: [],
   group: 0,
   tagsIds: [],
+  edgeIdGenerator: '',
 };
 
 interface Props {
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@ export function EdgeScriptForm({
         initialValues={edgePropertiesFormInitialValues}
         validationSchema={() => validationSchema(isNomadTokenVisible)}
         onSubmit={() => {}}
+        validateOnMount
       >
         {({ values, setFieldValue }) => (
           <>
diff --git a/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/EdgeScriptForm.validation.tsx b/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/EdgeScriptForm.validation.tsx
index b67158842..0811485f3 100644
--- a/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/EdgeScriptForm.validation.tsx
+++ b/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/EdgeScriptForm.validation.tsx
@@ -6,6 +6,13 @@ export function validationSchema(isNomadTokenVisible?: boolean) {
   return object().shape({
     allowSelfSignedCertificates: boolean(),
     envVars: string(),
+    edgeIdGenerator: string()
+      .required('Edge ID Generator is required')
+      .test(
+        'valid edge id generator',
+        'edge id generator cannot be empty',
+        (value) => !!(value && value.length)
+      ),
     ...nomadValidation(isNomadTokenVisible),
   });
 }
diff --git a/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/EdgeScriptSettingsFieldset.tsx b/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/EdgeScriptSettingsFieldset.tsx
index 1b1c3adbe..eb62dbb72 100644
--- a/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/EdgeScriptSettingsFieldset.tsx
+++ b/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/EdgeScriptSettingsFieldset.tsx
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ export function EdgeScriptSettingsFieldset({
   hideIdGetter,
   showMetaFields,
 }: Props) {
-  const { values, setFieldValue } = useFormikContext<ScriptFormValues>();
+  const { values, setFieldValue, errors } =
+    useFormikContext<ScriptFormValues>();
 
   return (
     <>
@@ -50,8 +51,10 @@ export function EdgeScriptSettingsFieldset({
         <>
           <FormControl
             label="Edge ID Generator"
-            tooltip="A bash script one liner that will generate the edge id and will be assigned to the PORTAINER_EDGE_ID environment variable"
+            tooltip="Enter a single-line bash command that generates a unique Edge ID. For example, you can use 'uuidgen' or 'uuid'. The result will be assigned to the 'PORTAINER_EDGE_ID' environment variable."
             inputId="edge-id-generator-input"
+            required
+            errors={errors.edgeIdGenerator}
           >
             <Input
               type="text"
diff --git a/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/types.ts b/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/types.ts
index f7c8f86a2..6d3581475 100644
--- a/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/types.ts
+++ b/app/react/edge/components/EdgeScriptForm/types.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ export interface ScriptFormValues {
   os: OS;
   platform: Platform;
 
-  edgeIdGenerator?: string;
+  edgeIdGenerator: string;
 
   group: EnvironmentGroupId;
   edgeGroupsIds: Array<EdgeGroup['Id']>;