diff --git a/bin/pt-mysql-summary b/bin/pt-mysql-summary
index fd51f7e1..b165e805 100755
--- a/bin/pt-mysql-summary
+++ b/bin/pt-mysql-summary
@@ -1586,7 +1586,7 @@ format_ndb_status() {
    local file=$1
 
    [ -e "$file" ] || return
-   cat "$file"
+   egrep '^[ \t]*Name:|[ \t]*Status:' ndb_status.txt|sed 's/^[ \t]*//g'|while read line; do echo $line; echo $line | grep '^Status:'>/dev/null && echo ; done
 }
 
 format_overall_db_stats () {
diff --git a/lib/bash/report_mysql_info.sh b/lib/bash/report_mysql_info.sh
index 02839527..9bb6dfb6 100644
--- a/lib/bash/report_mysql_info.sh
+++ b/lib/bash/report_mysql_info.sh
@@ -561,8 +561,8 @@ format_ndb_status() {
    local file=$1
 
    [ -e "$file" ] || return
-   # at the time being, just cat the file.
-   cat "$file"
+   # We could use "& \n" but that does not seem to work on bsd sed. 
+   egrep '^[ \t]*Name:|[ \t]*Status:' ndb_status.txt|sed 's/^[ \t]*//g'|while read line; do echo $line; echo $line | grep '^Status:'>/dev/null && echo ; done
 }
 
 # Summarizes per-database statistics for a bunch of different things: count of