diff --git a/committed.toml b/committed.toml
index d6c3ede..ccab6a9 100644
--- a/committed.toml
+++ b/committed.toml
@@ -1,24 +1,25 @@
-subject_length = 65
+subject_length = 100
 style = "conventional"
 allowed_types = ["refactor", "chore", "feat", "docs", "fix", "ci"]
 # Generated using `cargo boil image list --pretty never | jq 'keys'` + boil, patchable
 # start:scopes: autogenerated by .scripts/local/update_allowed_scopes.sh
-allowed_scopes = [
-  "build-container-image",
-  "build-product-image",
-  "check-pr-title",
-  "detect-changes",
-  "free-disk-space",
-  "publish-helm-chart",
-  "publish-image",
-  "publish-image-index-manifest",
-  "run-integration-test",
-  "run-openshift-preflight",
-  "run-pre-commit",
-  "run-prek",
-  "send-slack-notification",
-  "setup-k8s-tools",
-  "setup-tools",
-  "shard",
-]
+# Disabling for onw until we can allow '<scope>/*'
+# allowed_scopes = [
+#   "build-container-image",
+#   "build-product-image",
+#   "check-pr-title",
+#   "detect-changes",
+#   "free-disk-space",
+#   "publish-helm-chart",
+#   "publish-image",
+#   "publish-image-index-manifest",
+#   "run-integration-test",
+#   "run-openshift-preflight",
+#   "run-pre-commit",
+#   "run-prek",
+#   "send-slack-notification",
+#   "setup-k8s-tools",
+#   "setup-tools",
+#   "shard",
+# ]
 # end:scopes
diff --git a/run-integration-test/kustomize/bases/opentelemetry-collectors/container-log-scrape/opentelemetrycollector.yml b/run-integration-test/kustomize/bases/opentelemetry-collectors/container-log-scrape/opentelemetrycollector.yml
index 2fa557e..695ca81 100644
--- a/run-integration-test/kustomize/bases/opentelemetry-collectors/container-log-scrape/opentelemetrycollector.yml
+++ b/run-integration-test/kustomize/bases/opentelemetry-collectors/container-log-scrape/opentelemetrycollector.yml
@@ -57,6 +57,21 @@ spec:
             type: container
             format: containerd
             add_metadata_from_filepath: true
+          # Recombine multi-line application output (eg: Java stack traces). The container
+          # runtime writes one physical line per CRI entry, so a stack trace arrives as many
+          # separate log records. Here a new record starts at column 0 (non-whitespace);
+          # indented continuation lines ("<tab>at ...", "<tab>... N more", "<tab>Suppressed:") plus the
+          # column-0 "Caused by:" lines are appended to it. Keying on indentation keeps this
+          # robust across Java versions/loggers. Runs before the format parsers below, so normal
+          # single-line logs (each starting at column 0) are emitted unchanged.
+          # NOTE: a leading log line that introduces the exception (eg: "... ERROR Foo - msg")
+          # stays as its own record; add your log-line start pattern to is_first_entry to merge
+          # it too, but that reintroduces log-format coupling this deliberately avoids.
+          - id: recombine-multiline
+            type: recombine
+            combine_field: body
+            source_identifier: 'attributes["log.file.path"]'
+            is_first_entry: 'body matches "^\\S" and not (body matches "^Caused by:")'
           - id: klog-parser
             type: regex_parser
             on_error: send_quiet