With this setting, the most of the configuration files are pretty-printed and easier to read.
Step-by-step guide
Setup → Global settings → Administration Tool (WATO) → Pretty-Print configuration files
Setup → Global settings → Administration Tool (WATO) → Pretty-Print rules in config file of Event Console
toggle at least the "Pretty-Print configuration files" to on!
The next time you save a config in checkmk, you will be able to read the file better:
OMD[workshop]:~$ cat etc/check_mk/multisite.d/wato/roles.mk # Written by Checkmk store roles.update({'admin': {'alias': 'Administrator', 'builtin': True, 'permissions': {'wato.random_hosts': True}}, 'agent': {'alias': 'agent', 'builtin': True, 'permissions': {}}, 'guest': {'alias': 'Guest user', 'builtin': True, 'permissions': {}}, 'user': {'alias': 'Normal monitoring user', 'builtin': True, 'permissions': {}}, 'userx': {'alias': 'Normal monitoring user (copy)', 'basedon': 'user', 'builtin': False, 'permissions': {'wato.automation': True, 'wato.sites': True}}}) OMD[workshop]:~$
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