Long lines in alert log cause clipping

[tay9000]

Hello, please see the attached screenshot. I have an HTTP probe checking a URL with a long string and this is causing the lines to do something funky and end up indenting. Is there a way to shorten the length of what is displayed in the alert log or is there another viable solution? Thanks in advance!

[jsmurphy]

The indenting thing appeared in Nagios a few versions ago... I believe the point of it was to easily identify related state changes in the log files. To the best of my knowledge there is no way to turn this feature off. There is also no way that I know of for truncating the display of the log files.

Beyond aesthetics is there a reason that this is a problem?

[tay9000]

I do not think this is a feature. Look what happens when I increase the width of my browser window. The problem with the long lines goes away. However, I don't like having my browser fully extended...

[slansing]

I believe what you are seeing is the browser trying to constrain the fields within to the current size of it's window. I really do not believe there is a way around this, have you tried with a different browser? Perhaps the conventions are different. One way this could be changed would be editing the css files regarding this.

[jsmurphy]

Well that will learn me to make assumptions.

[tay9000]

have you tried with a different browser?

You're right. The problem exists in Chrome but not Firefox. I submit a bug report to Chrome. Hopefully it gets fixed... if they even see it as a problem.