diff --git a/awx/main/utils/handlers.py b/awx/main/utils/handlers.py
index b53a1e83eb..b7b851a5c5 100644
--- a/awx/main/utils/handlers.py
+++ b/awx/main/utils/handlers.py
@@ -118,9 +118,13 @@ class BaseHTTPSHandler(logging.Handler):
 
     def emit(self, record):
         """
-            Emit a log record.  When ``self.async`` is True, returns a list of
+            Emit a log record.  Returns a list of zero or more
             ``concurrent.futures.Future`` objects.
 
+            When ``self.async`` is True, the list will contain one
+            Future object for each HTTP request made.  When ``self.async`` is
+            False, the list will be empty.
+
             See:
             https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html#future-objects
             http://pythonhosted.org/futures/