diff --git a/clients/destination/v0/destination.go b/clients/destination/v0/destination.go
index cc3cf1f420..6310282b10 100644
--- a/clients/destination/v0/destination.go
+++ b/clients/destination/v0/destination.go
@@ -153,16 +153,16 @@ func (c *Client) newManagedClient(ctx context.Context, path string) error {
 				break
 			}
 			if errors.Is(err, logging.ErrLogLineToLong) {
-				c.logger.Err(err).Str("line", string(line)).Msg("skipping too long log line")
+				c.logger.Info().Str("line", string(line)).Msg("truncated destination plugin log line")
 				continue
 			}
 			if err != nil {
-				c.logger.Err(err).Msg("failed to read log line from plugin")
+				c.logger.Err(err).Msg("failed to read log line from destination plugin")
 				break
 			}
 			var structuredLogLine map[string]any
 			if err := json.Unmarshal(line, &structuredLogLine); err != nil {
-				c.logger.Err(err).Str("line", string(line)).Msg("failed to unmarshal log line from plugin")
+				c.logger.Err(err).Str("line", string(line)).Msg("failed to unmarshal log line from destination plugin")
 			} else {
 				logging.JSONToLog(c.logger, structuredLogLine)
 			}
diff --git a/clients/source/v0/source.go b/clients/source/v0/source.go
index aed302db46..f0f4c367f1 100644
--- a/clients/source/v0/source.go
+++ b/clients/source/v0/source.go
@@ -150,16 +150,16 @@ func (c *Client) newManagedClient(ctx context.Context, path string) error {
 				break
 			}
 			if errors.Is(err, logging.ErrLogLineToLong) {
-				c.logger.Err(err).Str("line", string(line)).Msg("skipping too long log line")
+				c.logger.Info().Str("line", string(line)).Msg("truncated source plugin log line")
 				continue
 			}
 			if err != nil {
-				c.logger.Err(err).Msg("failed to read log line from plugin")
+				c.logger.Err(err).Msg("failed to read log line from source plugin")
 				break
 			}
 			var structuredLogLine map[string]any
 			if err := json.Unmarshal(line, &structuredLogLine); err != nil {
-				c.logger.Err(err).Str("line", string(line)).Msg("failed to unmarshal log line from plugin")
+				c.logger.Err(err).Str("line", string(line)).Msg("failed to unmarshal log line from source plugin")
 			} else {
 				logging.JSONToLog(c.logger, structuredLogLine)
 			}
diff --git a/internal/logging/log_reader.go b/internal/logging/log_reader.go
index 269f74d15e..1af40bca8d 100644
--- a/internal/logging/log_reader.go
+++ b/internal/logging/log_reader.go
@@ -9,7 +9,10 @@ import (
 // logReaderPrefixLen is used when returning a partial line as context in NextLine
 const logReaderPrefixLen = 1000
 
-var ErrLogLineToLong = errors.New("log line too long, discarding")
+var (
+	ErrLogLineToLong = errors.New("log line too long, discarding")
+	ellipsis         = []byte("...")
+)
 
 // logReader is a custom implementation similar to bufio.Scanner, but provides a way to handle lines
 // (or tokens) that exceed the buffer size.
@@ -52,5 +55,5 @@ func (r *LogReader) NextLine() ([]byte, error) {
 			return nil, err
 		}
 	}
-	return prefix, ErrLogLineToLong
+	return append(prefix, ellipsis...), ErrLogLineToLong
 }
diff --git a/internal/logging/log_reader_test.go b/internal/logging/log_reader_test.go
index 94343ae22a..3b4852b914 100644
--- a/internal/logging/log_reader_test.go
+++ b/internal/logging/log_reader_test.go
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ func Test_LogReader(t *testing.T) {
 			name: "very long line",
 			text: longStr(10000000),
 			wantLines: []string{
-				longStr(logReaderPrefixLen),
+				longStr(logReaderPrefixLen) + "...",
 			},
 			wantErr: true,
 		},