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I’m running into this issue, but when using capture_message, and in a situation where it’s not really possible to guarantee that the string is shorter. (Specifically, we have a healthcheck script that runs regularly and needs to output a lot of information when things are in a bad state. It happened to be stuck on an old version of the Python SDK, and we started getting truncated messages when I updated it.)

When digging into the implementation, I ran into this comment:

def strip_string(value, max_length=None):
    # ...ommitted code here...
    if max_length is None:
        # This is intentionally not just the default such that one can patch `MAX_STRING_LENGTH` and affect `strip_string`.
        max_length = MAX_STRING_LENGTH

(From: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-python/blob/5f9f7c469af16a731948a482ea162c2348800999/sentry_sdk/utils.py#L662-L664)

So now I’ve got this at the start of my script, which does work, even though I don’t much like it:

sentry_sdk.utils.MAX_STRING_LENGTH = 2048

Is there a better workaround for this? Is there any planned feature to make this configurable?

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