diff --git a/awx/main/redact.py b/awx/main/redact.py
index 77fc062135..4c286eb9a8 100644
--- a/awx/main/redact.py
+++ b/awx/main/redact.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ REPLACE_STR = '$encrypted$'
 
 class UriCleaner(object):
     REPLACE_STR = REPLACE_STR
-    SENSITIVE_URI_PATTERN = re.compile(r'(\w+:(\/?\/?)[^\s]+)', re.MULTILINE)  # NOQA
+    SENSITIVE_URI_PATTERN = re.compile(r'(\w{1,20}:(\/?\/?)[^\s]+)', re.MULTILINE)  # NOQA
 
     @staticmethod
     def remove_sensitive(cleartext):
diff --git a/awx/main/tests/unit/test_redact.py b/awx/main/tests/unit/test_redact.py
index fa59ca43d7..d240ccb9ce 100644
--- a/awx/main/tests/unit/test_redact.py
+++ b/awx/main/tests/unit/test_redact.py
@@ -152,3 +152,10 @@ def test_uri_scm_cleartext_redact_and_replace(test_data):
     # Ensure the host didn't get redacted
     assert redacted_str.count(uri.host) == test_data['host_occurrences']
 
+
+@pytest.mark.timeout(1)
+def test_large_string_performance():
+    length = 100000
+    redacted = UriCleaner.remove_sensitive('x' * length)
+    assert len(redacted) == length
+