diff --git a/modules/monitoring/public/css/tables.less b/modules/monitoring/public/css/tables.less
index 93fa030f5..a0bdfa396 100644
--- a/modules/monitoring/public/css/tables.less
+++ b/modules/monitoring/public/css/tables.less
@@ -91,6 +91,12 @@
   font-size: @font-size-small;
   margin: 0;
   white-space: pre-wrap;
+  // Long text in table cells overflows the table's width if the table's layout is not fixed.
+  // Thus overflow-wrap will not have any effect. But w/ the following we set a width of any value
+  // plus a min-width of 100% to consume the full width nonetheless which seems to always
+  // instruct browsers to not overflow the table. Ridiculous.
+  min-width: 100%;
+  width: 1em;
 }
 
 // Table for performance data in detail views