diff --git a/awx/api/views.py b/awx/api/views.py
index be0f93aec9..779a718a13 100644
--- a/awx/api/views.py
+++ b/awx/api/views.py
@@ -1653,6 +1653,8 @@ class UnifiedJobStdout(RetrieveAPIView):
         unified_job = self.get_object()
         if request.accepted_renderer.format in ('html', 'api'):
             scheme = request.QUERY_PARAMS.get('scheme', None)
+            start_line = request.QUERY_PARAMS.get('start_line', 0)
+            end_line = request.QUERY_PARAMS.get('end_line', None)
             if scheme not in SCHEME:
                 scheme = 'ansi2html'
             dark_val = request.QUERY_PARAMS.get('dark', '')
@@ -1663,11 +1665,11 @@ class UnifiedJobStdout(RetrieveAPIView):
                                       title=get_view_name(self.__class__))
             if content_only:
                 headers = conv.produce_headers()
-                body = conv.convert(unified_job.result_stdout_raw, full=False)
+                body = conv.convert(unified_job.result_stdout_raw_limited(start_line, end_line), full=False)
                 data = '\n'.join([headers, body])
                 data = '<div class="nocode body_foreground body_background">%s</div>' % data
             else:
-                data = conv.convert(unified_job.result_stdout_raw)
+                data = conv.convert(unified_job.result_stdout_raw_limited(start_line, end_line))
             # Fix ugly grey background used by default.
             data = data.replace('.body_background { background-color: #AAAAAA; }',
                                 '.body_background { background-color: #f5f5f5; }')
diff --git a/awx/main/models/unified_jobs.py b/awx/main/models/unified_jobs.py
index 9e18ccf361..152d5910aa 100644
--- a/awx/main/models/unified_jobs.py
+++ b/awx/main/models/unified_jobs.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import re
 import shlex
 import os
 import os.path
+from cStringIO import StringIO
 
 # PyYAML
 import yaml
@@ -501,21 +502,35 @@ class UnifiedJob(PolymorphicModel, PasswordFieldsModel, CommonModelNameNotUnique
                 pass
         super(UnifiedJob, self).delete()
 
-    @property
-    def result_stdout_raw(self):
+    def result_stdout_raw_handle(self):
         if self.result_stdout_file != "":
             if not os.path.exists(self.result_stdout_file):
-                return "stdout capture is missing"
-            with open(self.result_stdout_file, "r") as stdout_fd:
-                return stdout_fd.read()
+                return StringIO("stdout capture is missing")
+            return open(self.result_stdout_file, "r")
         else:
-            return self.result_stdout_text
+            return StringIO(self.result_stdout_text)
+
+    @property
+    def result_stdout_raw(self):
+        return self.result_stdout_raw_handle().read()
 
     @property
     def result_stdout(self):
         ansi_escape = re.compile(r'\x1b[^m]*m')
         return ansi_escape.sub('', self.result_stdout_raw)
 
+    def result_stdout_raw_limited(self, start_line=0, end_line=None):
+        return_buffer = ""
+        if end_line is not None:
+            end_line = int(end_line)
+        for line in self.result_stdout_raw_handle().readlines()[int(start_line):end_line]:
+            return_buffer += line
+        return return_buffer
+
+    def result_stdout_limited(self, start_line=0, end_line=None):
+        ansi_escape = re.compile(r'\x1b[^m]*m')
+        return ansi_escape.sub('', self.result_stdout_raw_limited(start_line, end_line))
+
     @property
     def celery_task(self):
         try: