# Long agent names cause elipsis'ing which makes it more difficult to see which agent a job runs on **URL:** \ **Category:** Features Requests\ **Created:** [July 30, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/long-agent-names-cause-elipsising-which-makes-it-more-difficult-to-see-which-agent-a-job-runs-on/630 "2019-07-30T15:28:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![petemounce](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.buildkite.community/petemounce/32/339_2.png) [@petemounce](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/petemounce)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/long-agent-names-cause-elipsising-which-makes-it-more-difficult-to-see-which-agent-a-job-runs-on/630/1 "2019-07-30T15:28:10Z")
![06](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/buildkite1/original/1X/ca0e3f7968900dd1365250210cbe24a46da318ac.png) ![51](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/buildkite1/original/1X/eb3f0669ea90e77acb81529689216172fcc26069.png) We have long agent names to include a git sha1, unix timestamp and some other information that’s important for us to know there. There’s some length-detection going on that … s them away; this makes it harder to know which agent a job is running on. One has to go dig in the timeline tab. Would it be possible to improve this by one/some of: - not using the … (we have wide monitors and we also have the responsive-layout feature-toggle turned on cc @anon85971592) - if the length-detection and trimming is kept, put the full name into hover-text/tooltip - if the job is expanded, make the agent name in full be somewhere inside the now-expanded job display - something that has much better UX than my own ideas 🙂 ? ---
**Author:** ![anon85971592](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@anon85971592](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/anon85971592)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 10:55am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/long-agent-names-cause-elipsising-which-makes-it-more-difficult-to-see-which-agent-a-job-runs-on/630/2 "2019-07-31T10:55:35Z")
@petemounce that’s good feedback! I made a sneaky change that should hopefully tie you over until we can do something a little better: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/buildkite1/original/1X/fda248906c1b5827e09fc158c127865454e65626.png) I’ve added the full agent name as a `title` tag so it should show up when you over over the name. ---
**Author:** ![petemounce](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.buildkite.community/petemounce/32/339_2.png) [@petemounce](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/petemounce)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/long-agent-names-cause-elipsising-which-makes-it-more-difficult-to-see-which-agent-a-job-runs-on/630/3 "2019-07-31T13:45:21Z")
Has that been rolled out? I tried hovering and didn’t get a tooltip. Chrome latest on macOS. ---
**Author:** ![anon85971592](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@anon85971592](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/anon85971592)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 12:25am UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/long-agent-names-cause-elipsising-which-makes-it-more-difficult-to-see-which-agent-a-job-runs-on/630/4 "2019-08-01T00:25:44Z")
Yeah - it’s been shipped. I just tested Chrome on macOS and works for me. You need to hover over the actual letters and leave the cursor there for a good 3 seconds or so. It’s pretty clunky… ---
**Author:** ![petemounce](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.buildkite.community/petemounce/32/339_2.png) [@petemounce](https://forum.buildkite.community/u/petemounce)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.buildkite.community/t/long-agent-names-cause-elipsising-which-makes-it-more-difficult-to-see-which-agent-a-job-runs-on/630/5 "2019-08-01T15:39:42Z")
Got it, thanks!