diff --git a/client/packages/components/src/components/explorer/__tests__/format-value.test.ts b/client/packages/components/src/components/explorer/__tests__/format-value.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..38a40f3dce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/packages/components/src/components/explorer/__tests__/format-value.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import { describe, expect, test } from 'vitest';
+import { formatVal } from '../format-value';
+
+describe('formatVal', () => {
+  test('formats boolean values as visible text', () => {
+    expect(formatVal(true)).toBe('true');
+    expect(formatVal(false)).toBe('false');
+  });
+});
diff --git a/client/packages/components/src/components/explorer/format-value.ts b/client/packages/components/src/components/explorer/format-value.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8acf89ad9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/client/packages/components/src/components/explorer/format-value.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import { isObject } from 'lodash';
+
+export function formatVal(data: any, pretty?: boolean): string {
+  if (isObject(data)) {
+    return JSON.stringify(data, null, pretty ? 2 : undefined);
+  }
+
+  return String(data);
+}
diff --git a/client/packages/components/src/components/explorer/inner-explorer.tsx b/client/packages/components/src/components/explorer/inner-explorer.tsx
index d4303daf2d..044539a7e8 100644
--- a/client/packages/components/src/components/explorer/inner-explorer.tsx
+++ b/client/packages/components/src/components/explorer/inner-explorer.tsx
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ import { isObject } from 'lodash';
 import { EditNamespaceDialog } from './edit-namespace-dialog';
 import { EditRowDialog, isEditableExplorerAttr } from './edit-row-dialog';
 import copy from 'copy-to-clipboard';
+import { formatVal } from './format-value';
 
 const fallbackItems: any[] = [];
 
@@ -539,10 +540,7 @@ export const InnerExplorer: React.FC<{
               return info.row.original[attr.name];
             }
           }
-          if (isObject(info.row.original[attr.name])) {
-            return <Val data={info.row.original[attr.name]}></Val>;
-          }
-          return info.row.original[attr.name];
+          return formatVal(info.row.original[attr.name]);
         },
       });
     });
@@ -1469,14 +1467,6 @@ export const InnerExplorer: React.FC<{
   );
 };
 
-function formatVal(data: any, pretty?: boolean): string {
-  if (isObject(data)) {
-    return JSON.stringify(data, null, pretty ? 2 : undefined);
-  }
-
-  return String(data);
-}
-
 function Val({ data, pretty }: { data: any; pretty?: boolean }) {
   const props = useExplorerProps();
   const sanitized = formatVal(data, pretty);
diff --git a/client/packages/components/src/components/explorer/table-components.tsx b/client/packages/components/src/components/explorer/table-components.tsx
index 62ee64ff5d..f18ae84bed 100644
--- a/client/packages/components/src/components/explorer/table-components.tsx
+++ b/client/packages/components/src/components/explorer/table-components.tsx
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import { isObject } from 'lodash';
 import copy from 'copy-to-clipboard';
 import { useExplorerDialog, useExplorerProps, useExplorerState } from '.';
 import { TableColMeta } from './inner-explorer';
+import { formatVal } from './format-value';
 
 export const TableHeader = ({
   header,
@@ -397,14 +398,6 @@ function isCopyableCellValue(
   return true;
 }
 
-function formatVal(data: any, pretty?: boolean): string {
-  if (isObject(data)) {
-    return JSON.stringify(data, null, pretty ? 2 : undefined);
-  }
-
-  return String(data);
-}
-
 function Val({ data, pretty }: { data: any; pretty?: boolean }) {
   const sanitized = formatVal(data, pretty);
   const explorerProps = useExplorerProps();
diff --git a/client/packages/version/src/version.ts b/client/packages/version/src/version.ts
index 349d86c571..c46414d18f 100644
--- a/client/packages/version/src/version.ts
+++ b/client/packages/version/src/version.ts
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 // Update the version here and merge your code to main to
 // publish a new version of all of the packages to npm.
 
-const version = 'v1.0.58';
+const version = 'v1.0.59';
 
 export { version };