diff --git a/awx/main/management/commands/bottleneck.py b/awx/main/management/commands/bottleneck.py
index 7948507c70..1636f7e969 100644
--- a/awx/main/management/commands/bottleneck.py
+++ b/awx/main/management/commands/bottleneck.py
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ class Command(BaseCommand):
     def add_arguments(self, parser):
         parser.add_argument('--template', dest='jt', type=int,
                             help='ID of the Job Template to profile')
-        parser.add_argument('--threshold', dest='threshold', type=float, default=5,
-                            help='Only show tasks that took at least this many seconds (defaults to 5)')
+        parser.add_argument('--threshold', dest='threshold', type=float, default=30,
+                            help='Only show tasks that took at least this many seconds (defaults to 30)')
         parser.add_argument('--history', dest='history', type=float, default=25,
                             help='The number of historic jobs to look at')
         parser.add_argument('--ignore', action='append', help='ignore a specific action (e.g., --ignore git)')