# How to make Ansible output look nice?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-make-ansible-output-look-nice/19953>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [December 7, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-make-ansible-output-look-nice/19953 "2015-12-07T18:32:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![jdelaporte](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jdelaporte/32/366_2.png) [@jdelaporte](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jdelaporte)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-make-ansible-output-look-nice/19953/1 "2015-12-07T18:32:28Z")

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I have been looking around and cannot find the answer to this…my ansible output looks terrible, and is difficult to read. What is the best way to make it more readable?

(item={‘value’: {u’services’: [u’dns’], u’sources’: [u’0.0.0.0/0’], u’state’: u’enabled’, u’permanent’: u’True’}, ‘key’: u’public’}) =\> {“failed”: true, “item”: {“key”: “public”, “value”: {“permanent”: “True”, “services”: [“dns”], “sources”: [“0.0.0.0/0”], “state”: “enabled”}}

Thanks!  
Joanna

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**Author:** ![Brian\_Coca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@Brian\_Coca](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Brian_Coca)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-make-ansible-output-look-nice/19953/2 "2015-12-07T18:36:45Z")

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You can use the callback plugins, specially in 2.0 you can control all  
aspects of output.

For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout).

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Hardwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/71e660/32.png) [@Paul\_Hardwick](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Paul_Hardwick)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-make-ansible-output-look-nice/19953/3 "2015-12-09T17:25:01Z")

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I hadn’t gotten a chance to install yet, but I had found this when I was looking for myself.

[http://blog.cliffano.com/2014/04/06/human-readable-ansible-playbook-log-output-using-callback-plugin/](http://blog.cliffano.com/2014/04/06/human-readable-ansible-playbook-log-output-using-callback-plugin/)

Paul

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**Author:** ![jdelaporte](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/jdelaporte/32/366_2.png) [@jdelaporte](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jdelaporte)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2015, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/how-to-make-ansible-output-look-nice/19953/4 "2015-12-09T17:42:54Z")

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Hi, thanks! I read through the blog and attempted to set it up, but it’s not working for me yet.