The part of ansible that really kind of bugs me isn't the YAML, it's the default JSON output of commands. I ended up integrating this into all my projects: ht

The part of ansible that really kind of bugs me isn't the YAML, it's the default JSON output of commands. I ended up integrating this into all my projects: 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-p... Which fixes the problem (sort of), but I really don't understand why the default isn't looking something like that. It's a real pain parsing through some JSON with a ton of \n...\n...\n...\n's in order to find the source of the errors.