diff --git a/awx/api/generics.py b/awx/api/generics.py
index 2628ce2400..d0f90c8766 100644
--- a/awx/api/generics.py
+++ b/awx/api/generics.py
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ class GenericAPIView(generics.GenericAPIView, APIView):
                     'model_verbose_name_plural': unicode(self.model._meta.verbose_name_plural),
                 })
             d.update({'serializer_fields': self.get_serializer().metadata()})
+        d['settings'] = settings
         return d
 
     def metadata(self, request):
diff --git a/awx/api/renderers.py b/awx/api/renderers.py
index 5f3eee81db..fd60520db2 100644
--- a/awx/api/renderers.py
+++ b/awx/api/renderers.py
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ class PlainTextRenderer(renderers.BaseRenderer):
             data = unicode(data)
         return data.encode(self.charset)
 
+class DownloadTextRenderer(PlainTextRenderer):
+    format = "txt_download"
+
 class AnsiTextRenderer(PlainTextRenderer):
 
     media_type = 'text/plain'
diff --git a/awx/api/serializers.py b/awx/api/serializers.py
index df507202d5..460447c229 100644
--- a/awx/api/serializers.py
+++ b/awx/api/serializers.py
@@ -519,6 +519,11 @@ class UnifiedJobSerializer(BaseSerializer):
             ret['elapsed'] = float(ret['elapsed'])
         return ret
 
+    def get_result_stdout(self, obj):
+        obj_size = obj.result_stdout_size
+        if obj_size > settings.STDOUT_MAX_BYTES_DISPLAY:
+            return "Standard Output too large to display (%d bytes), only download supported for sizes over %d bytes" % (obj_size, settings.STDOUT_MAX_BYTES_DISPLAY)
+        return obj.result_stdout
 
 class UnifiedJobListSerializer(UnifiedJobSerializer):
 
diff --git a/awx/api/templates/api/unified_job_stdout.md b/awx/api/templates/api/unified_job_stdout.md
index 70e1e1a993..63f7acea8e 100644
--- a/awx/api/templates/api/unified_job_stdout.md
+++ b/awx/api/templates/api/unified_job_stdout.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Use the `format` query string parameter to specify the output format.
 * Plain Text: `?format=txt`
 * Plain Text with ANSI color codes: `?format=ansi`
 * JSON structure: `?format=json`
+* Downloaded Plain Text: `?format=txt_download`
 
 (_New in Ansible Tower 2.0.0_) When using the Browsable API, HTML and JSON
 formats, the `start_line` and `end_line` query string parameters can be used
@@ -20,4 +21,7 @@ to specify a range of line numbers to retrieve.
 Use `dark=1` or `dark=0` as a query string parameter to force or disable a
 dark background.
 
++Files over {{ settings.STDOUT_MAX_BYTES_DISPLAY|filesizeformat }} (configurable) will not display in the browser. Use the `txt_download`
++format to download the file directly to view it.
+
 {% include "api/_new_in_awx.md" %}
diff --git a/awx/api/views.py b/awx/api/views.py
index d47d89e789..a0d383d758 100644
--- a/awx/api/views.py
+++ b/awx/api/views.py
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ from django.utils.safestring import mark_safe
 from django.utils.timezone import now
 from django.views.decorators.csrf import csrf_exempt
 from django.template.loader import render_to_string
+from django.core.servers.basehttp import FileWrapper
+from django.http import HttpResponse
 
 # Django REST Framework
 from rest_framework.exceptions import PermissionDenied, ParseError
@@ -2789,7 +2791,7 @@ class UnifiedJobStdout(RetrieveAPIView):
     serializer_class = UnifiedJobStdoutSerializer
     renderer_classes = [BrowsableAPIRenderer, renderers.StaticHTMLRenderer,
                         PlainTextRenderer, AnsiTextRenderer,
-                        renderers.JSONRenderer]
+                        renderers.JSONRenderer, DownloadTextRenderer]
     filter_backends = ()
     new_in_148 = True
 
diff --git a/awx/settings/defaults.py b/awx/settings/defaults.py
index dcfdebe2a2..5caaaf06d3 100644
--- a/awx/settings/defaults.py
+++ b/awx/settings/defaults.py
@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
 # reverse proxy.
 REMOTE_HOST_HEADERS = ['REMOTE_ADDR', 'REMOTE_HOST']
 
+STDOUT_MAX_BYTES_DISPLAY = 1048576
+
 TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS += (  # NOQA
     'django.core.context_processors.request',
     'awx.ui.context_processors.settings',