diff --git a/examples/llm/vdb_upload/vdb_utils.py b/examples/llm/vdb_upload/vdb_utils.py
index d3aed615d7..7740acbc7c 100644
--- a/examples/llm/vdb_upload/vdb_utils.py
+++ b/examples/llm/vdb_upload/vdb_utils.py
@@ -315,14 +315,15 @@ def build_cli_configs(source_type,
     cli_vdb_conf = {
         # Vector db upload has some significant transaction overhead, batch size here should be as large as possible
         'batch_size': 16384,
-        'resource_name': vector_db_resource_name,
         'embedding_size': embedding_size,
         'recreate': True,
+        'resource_name': vector_db_resource_name,
         'resource_schemas': {
             vector_db_resource_name:
                 build_defualt_milvus_config(embedding_size) if (vector_db_service == 'milvus') else None,
         },
         'service': vector_db_service,
+        'truncate_long_strings': True,
         'uri': vector_db_uri,
     }
 
diff --git a/morpheus/service/vdb/milvus_vector_db_service.py b/morpheus/service/vdb/milvus_vector_db_service.py
index b9797ce8f0..1a1fd74be5 100644
--- a/morpheus/service/vdb/milvus_vector_db_service.py
+++ b/morpheus/service/vdb/milvus_vector_db_service.py
@@ -605,13 +605,17 @@ def __init__(self,
                  password: str = "",
                  db_name: str = "",
                  token: str = "",
+                 truncate_long_strings: bool = False,
                  **kwargs: dict[str, typing.Any]):
 
+        self._truncate_long_strings = truncate_long_strings
         self._client = MilvusClient(uri=uri, user=user, password=password, db_name=db_name, token=token, **kwargs)
 
     def load_resource(self, name: str, **kwargs: dict[str, typing.Any]) -> MilvusVectorDBResourceService:
-
-        return MilvusVectorDBResourceService(name=name, client=self._client, **kwargs)
+        return MilvusVectorDBResourceService(name=name,
+                                             client=self._client,
+                                             truncate_long_strings=self._truncate_long_strings,
+                                             **kwargs)
 
     def has_store_object(self, name: str) -> bool:
         """