diff --git a/awx/api/views/__init__.py b/awx/api/views/__init__.py
index 506c439544..00f74c9e73 100644
--- a/awx/api/views/__init__.py
+++ b/awx/api/views/__init__.py
@@ -175,9 +175,6 @@ from awx.api.views.root import (  # noqa
 from awx.api.views.webhooks import WebhookKeyView, GithubWebhookReceiver, GitlabWebhookReceiver  # noqa
 
 
-EPOCH = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(0)
-
-
 logger = logging.getLogger('awx.api.views')
 
 
@@ -889,7 +886,7 @@ class ProjectUpdateEventsList(SubListAPIView):
 
     def get_queryset(self):
         return super(ProjectUpdateEventsList, self).get_queryset().filter(
-            job_created__in=(self.get_parent_object().created, EPOCH)
+            job_created=self.get_parent_object().created_or_epoch
         )
 
 class SystemJobEventsList(SubListAPIView):
@@ -907,7 +904,7 @@ class SystemJobEventsList(SubListAPIView):
 
     def get_queryset(self):
         return super(SystemJobEventsList, self).get_queryset().filter(
-            job_created__in=(self.get_parent_object().created, EPOCH)
+            job_created=self.get_parent_object().created_or_epoch
         )
 
 class ProjectUpdateCancel(RetrieveAPIView):
@@ -3828,7 +3825,7 @@ class JobJobEventsList(BaseJobEventsList):
         job = self.get_parent_object()
         self.check_parent_access(job)
         qs = job.job_events.filter(
-            job_created__in=(job.created, EPOCH)
+            job_created=self.get_parent_object().created_or_epoch
         ).select_related('host').order_by('start_line')
         return qs.all()
 
@@ -4011,7 +4008,7 @@ class BaseAdHocCommandEventsList(NoTruncateMixin, SubListAPIView):
 
     def get_queryset(self):
         return super(BaseAdHocCommandEventsList, self).get_queryset().filter(
-            job_created__in=(self.get_parent_object().created, EPOCH)
+            job_created=self.get_parent_object().created_or_epoch
         )
 
 
diff --git a/awx/api/views/inventory.py b/awx/api/views/inventory.py
index a812f757d0..845f352e64 100644
--- a/awx/api/views/inventory.py
+++ b/awx/api/views/inventory.py
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@ from awx.api.views.mixin import RelatedJobsPreventDeleteMixin, ControlledByScmMi
 
 logger = logging.getLogger('awx.api.views.organization')
 
-EPOCH = datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(0)
-
 
 class InventoryUpdateEventsList(SubListAPIView):
 
@@ -55,7 +53,7 @@ class InventoryUpdateEventsList(SubListAPIView):
 
     def get_queryset(self):
         return super(InventoryUpdateEventsList, self).get_queryset().filter(
-            job_created__in=(self.get_parent_object().created, EPOCH)
+            job_created=self.get_parent_object().created_or_epoch
         )
 
     def finalize_response(self, request, response, *args, **kwargs):
diff --git a/awx/main/models/unified_jobs.py b/awx/main/models/unified_jobs.py
index 6627826923..880cac6e1c 100644
--- a/awx/main/models/unified_jobs.py
+++ b/awx/main/models/unified_jobs.py
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ from awx.main.utils import (
     getattr_dne,
     polymorphic,
     schedule_task_manager,
+    get_event_partition_epoch
 )
 from awx.main.constants import ACTIVE_STATES, CAN_CANCEL
 from awx.main.redact import UriCleaner, REPLACE_STR
@@ -735,6 +736,18 @@ class UnifiedJob(
     def _get_task_class(cls):
         raise NotImplementedError  # Implement in subclasses.
 
+    @property
+    def created_or_epoch(self):
+        # returns self.created *unless* the job was created *prior*
+        # to the datetime the event partition migration is applied
+        # (in that case, it returns the epoch, which is the date
+        # which is automatically applied to all events rows that predate
+        # that migration)
+        applied = get_event_partition_epoch()
+        if applied and self.created < applied:
+            return datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp(0)
+        return self.created
+
     @property
     def can_run_containerized(self):
         return False
diff --git a/awx/main/utils/common.py b/awx/main/utils/common.py
index a45dff34b8..3d463441fc 100644
--- a/awx/main/utils/common.py
+++ b/awx/main/utils/common.py
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ __all__ = [
     'create_temporary_fifo',
     'truncate_stdout',
     'deepmerge',
-    'cleanup_new_process',
+    'get_event_partition_epoch',
 ]
 
 
@@ -208,6 +208,28 @@ def memoize_delete(function_name):
     return cache.delete(function_name)
 
 
+@memoize(ttl=3600 * 24)  # in practice, we only need this to load once at process startup time
+def get_event_partition_epoch():
+    from django.db.migrations.recorder import MigrationRecorder
+    return MigrationRecorder.Migration.objects.filter(
+        app='main', name='0124_event_partitions'
+    ).first().applied
+
+
+@memoize()
+def get_ansible_version():
+    """
+    Return Ansible version installed.
+    Ansible path needs to be provided to account for custom virtual environments
+    """
+    try:
+        proc = subprocess.Popen(['ansible', '--version'], stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
+        result = smart_str(proc.communicate()[0])
+        return result.split('\n')[0].replace('ansible', '').strip()
+    except Exception:
+        return 'unknown'
+
+
 def get_awx_version():
     """
     Return AWX version as reported by setuptools.