diff --git a/awx/api/views/__init__.py b/awx/api/views/__init__.py
index 2dfb35c462..761ce02ab4 100644
--- a/awx/api/views/__init__.py
+++ b/awx/api/views/__init__.py
@@ -3754,6 +3754,8 @@ class JobEventDetail(RetrieveAPIView):
 
     @property
     def is_partitioned(self):
+        if 'pk' not in self.kwargs:
+            return True
         return int(self.kwargs['pk']) > unpartitioned_event_horizon(models.JobEvent)
 
     @property
@@ -3777,6 +3779,8 @@ class JobEventChildrenList(NoTruncateMixin, SubListAPIView):
 
     @property
     def is_partitioned(self):
+        if 'pk' not in self.kwargs:
+            return True
         return int(self.kwargs['pk']) > unpartitioned_event_horizon(models.JobEvent)
 
     @property