diff --git a/modules/monitoring/application/views/helpers/PluginOutput.php b/modules/monitoring/application/views/helpers/PluginOutput.php
index 1cafcc335..78eae2aef 100644
--- a/modules/monitoring/application/views/helpers/PluginOutput.php
+++ b/modules/monitoring/application/views/helpers/PluginOutput.php
@@ -102,7 +102,6 @@ class Zend_View_Helper_PluginOutput extends Zend_View_Helper_Abstract
         if ($command !== null) {
             $output = $this->hookRenderer->render($command, $output, ! $raw);
         }
-        $output = preg_replace('~<br[^>]*>~', "\n", $output);
         if (preg_match('~<[^>]*["/\'][^>]*>~', $output)) {
             // HTML
             $output = preg_replace(
diff --git a/modules/monitoring/test/php/application/views/helpers/PluginOutputTest.php b/modules/monitoring/test/php/application/views/helpers/PluginOutputTest.php
index 6e136c9f8..8d8f4f2cd 100644
--- a/modules/monitoring/test/php/application/views/helpers/PluginOutputTest.php
+++ b/modules/monitoring/test/php/application/views/helpers/PluginOutputTest.php
@@ -92,15 +92,13 @@ class PluginOutputTest extends BaseTestCase
         );
         /** @noinspection HtmlUnknownAttribute */
         $output = array(
-            'Teststatus',
-            '<a href="http://localhost/test.php" target="_blank"[^>]*>Info</a>',
-            '',
-            '',
+            'Teststatus ',
+            '<a href="http://localhost/test.php" target="_blank"[^>]*>Info</a><br><br>',
             '<a href="http://localhost/test2.php" target="_blank"[^>]*>Info2</a>'
         );
         $this->checkHtmlOutput(
             join("\n", $input),
-            join("\n", $output),
+            join('', $output),
             true
         );
     }