diff --git a/backend/src/plugins/Logs/types.ts b/backend/src/plugins/Logs/types.ts
index 67510e86..41af232d 100644
--- a/backend/src/plugins/Logs/types.ts
+++ b/backend/src/plugins/Logs/types.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import { GuildCases } from "../../data/GuildCases.js";
 import { GuildLogs } from "../../data/GuildLogs.js";
 import { GuildSavedMessages } from "../../data/GuildSavedMessages.js";
 import { LogType } from "../../data/LogType.js";
-import { keys, zBoundedCharacters, zMessageContent, zRegex, zSnowflake } from "../../utils.js";
+import { keys, zBoundedCharacters, zEmbedInput, zMessageContent, zRegex, zSnowflake, zStrictMessageContent } from "../../utils.js";
 import { MessageBuffer } from "../../utils/MessageBuffer.js";
 import {
   TemplateSafeCase,
@@ -27,11 +27,19 @@ const DEFAULT_BATCH_TIME = 1000;
 const MIN_BATCH_TIME = 250;
 const MAX_BATCH_TIME = 5000;
 
+const zStrictLogMessageContent = zStrictMessageContent.extend({
+  embed: zEmbedInput.optional(),
+});
+const zLogMessageContent = z.union([
+  zBoundedCharacters(0, 2000),
+  zStrictLogMessageContent,
+]);
+
 // A bit of a workaround so we can pass LogType keys to z.enum()
-const zMessageContentWithDefault = zMessageContent.default("");
+const zMessageContentWithDefault = zLogMessageContent.default("");
 const logTypes = keys(LogType);
 const logTypeProps = logTypes.reduce((map, type) => {
-  map[type] = zMessageContent.default(DefaultLogMessages[type] || "");
+  map[type] = zLogMessageContent.default(DefaultLogMessages[type] || "");
   return map;
 }, {} as Record<keyof typeof LogType, typeof zMessageContentWithDefault>);
 const zLogFormats = z.strictObject(logTypeProps);
diff --git a/backend/src/plugins/Logs/util/getLogMessage.ts b/backend/src/plugins/Logs/util/getLogMessage.ts
index 30c92087..7214a08f 100644
--- a/backend/src/plugins/Logs/util/getLogMessage.ts
+++ b/backend/src/plugins/Logs/util/getLogMessage.ts
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ export async function getLogMessage<TLogType extends keyof ILogTypeData>(
   const format = opts?.format?.[LogType[type]] || config.format[LogType[type]] || "";
   if (format === "" || format == null) return null;
 
+  if (typeof format === "object" && format.embed) {
+    format.embeds = [format.embed];
+    delete format.embed;
+  }
+
   // See comment on FORMAT_NO_TIMESTAMP in types.ts
   const timestampFormat = opts?.timestamp_format ?? config.timestamp_format;
 
diff --git a/backend/src/utils.ts b/backend/src/utils.ts
index d69a0611..3bb3e0eb 100644
--- a/backend/src/utils.ts
+++ b/backend/src/utils.ts
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ export const zEmbedInput = z.object({
 
 export type EmbedWith<T extends keyof APIEmbed> = APIEmbed & Pick<Required<APIEmbed>, T>;
 
-export const zStrictMessageContent = z.object({
+export const zStrictMessageContent = z.strictObject({
   content: z.string().optional(),
   tts: z.boolean().optional(),
   embeds: z.array(zEmbedInput).optional(),