diff --git a/Extension/src/LanguageServer/settingsTracker.ts b/Extension/src/LanguageServer/settingsTracker.ts
index 46048ee85f..9c716fce61 100644
--- a/Extension/src/LanguageServer/settingsTracker.ts
+++ b/Extension/src/LanguageServer/settingsTracker.ts
@@ -181,6 +181,10 @@ export class SettingsTracker {
                         || key === "codeAnalysis.clangTidy.path"
                         || key === "codeAnalysis.clangTidy.headerFilter" || key === "codeAnalysis.clangTidy.args"
                         || key === "codeAnalysis.clangTidy.config" || key === "codeAnalysis.clangTidy.fallbackConfig"
+
+                        // Note: An existing bug prevents these settings of type "object" from getting processed here,
+                        // so these checks are here just in case that bug gets fixed later on.
+                        || key === "files.exclude" || key === "codeAnalysis.exclude"
                     ) {
                         value = this.areEqual(val, settings.inspect(key)?.defaultValue) ? "<default>" : "..."; // Track whether it's being used, but nothing specific about it.
                     } else {