diff --git a/awx/main/dispatch/pool.py b/awx/main/dispatch/pool.py
index 16366c3e0c6c..8830a69af813 100644
--- a/awx/main/dispatch/pool.py
+++ b/awx/main/dispatch/pool.py
@@ -21,9 +21,11 @@
 from jinja2 import Template
 import psutil
 
+from ansible_base.lib.logging.runtime import log_excess_runtime
+
 from awx.main.models import UnifiedJob
 from awx.main.dispatch import reaper
-from awx.main.utils.common import convert_mem_str_to_bytes, get_mem_effective_capacity, log_excess_runtime
+from awx.main.utils.common import convert_mem_str_to_bytes, get_mem_effective_capacity
 
 if 'run_callback_receiver' in sys.argv:
     logger = logging.getLogger('awx.main.commands.run_callback_receiver')
@@ -366,7 +368,7 @@ def full(self):
     def debug_meta(self):
         return 'min={} max={}'.format(self.min_workers, self.max_workers)
 
-    @log_excess_runtime(logger)
+    @log_excess_runtime(logger, debug_cutoff=0.05, cutoff=0.2)
     def cleanup(self):
         """
         Perform some internal account and cleanup.  This is run on
diff --git a/awx/main/dispatch/worker/base.py b/awx/main/dispatch/worker/base.py
index 264205a8ed6d..9547edf15fd2 100644
--- a/awx/main/dispatch/worker/base.py
+++ b/awx/main/dispatch/worker/base.py
@@ -16,10 +16,11 @@
 from django import db
 from django.conf import settings
 
+from ansible_base.lib.logging.runtime import log_excess_runtime
+
 from awx.main.dispatch.pool import WorkerPool
 from awx.main.dispatch.periodic import Scheduler
 from awx.main.dispatch import pg_bus_conn
-from awx.main.utils.common import log_excess_runtime
 from awx.main.utils.db import set_connection_name
 import awx.main.analytics.subsystem_metrics as s_metrics
 
@@ -126,7 +127,7 @@ def process_task(self, body):
                 return
         self.dispatch_task(body)
 
-    @log_excess_runtime(logger)
+    @log_excess_runtime(logger, debug_cutoff=0.05, cutoff=0.2)
     def record_statistics(self):
         if time.time() - self.last_stats > 1:  # buffer stat recording to once per second
             try:
@@ -183,6 +184,7 @@ def __init__(self, *args, schedule=None, **kwargs):
         schedule['metrics_gather'] = {'control': self.record_metrics, 'schedule': timedelta(seconds=20)}
         self.scheduler = Scheduler(schedule)
 
+    @log_excess_runtime(logger, debug_cutoff=0.05, cutoff=0.2)
     def record_metrics(self):
         current_time = time.time()
         self.pool.produce_subsystem_metrics(self.subsystem_metrics)
diff --git a/awx/main/tasks/facts.py b/awx/main/tasks/facts.py
index c72dc0d3a67d..0ddba205c683 100644
--- a/awx/main/tasks/facts.py
+++ b/awx/main/tasks/facts.py
@@ -11,8 +11,10 @@
 from django.utils.timezone import now
 from django.db import OperationalError
 
+# django-ansible-base
+from ansible_base.lib.logging.runtime import log_excess_runtime
+
 # AWX
-from awx.main.utils.common import log_excess_runtime
 from awx.main.models.inventory import Host
 
 
diff --git a/awx/main/utils/common.py b/awx/main/utils/common.py
index 8b482f6ed057..2e517952e510 100644
--- a/awx/main/utils/common.py
+++ b/awx/main/utils/common.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 import json
 import yaml
 import logging
-import time
 import psycopg
 import os
 import subprocess
@@ -89,7 +88,6 @@
     'deepmerge',
     'get_event_partition_epoch',
     'cleanup_new_process',
-    'log_excess_runtime',
     'unified_job_class_to_event_table_name',
 ]
 
@@ -1215,36 +1213,5 @@ def wrapper_cleanup_new_process(*args, **kwargs):
     return wrapper_cleanup_new_process
 
 
-def log_excess_runtime(func_logger, cutoff=5.0, debug_cutoff=5.0, msg=None, add_log_data=False):
-    def log_excess_runtime_decorator(func):
-        @functools.wraps(func)
-        def _new_func(*args, **kwargs):
-            start_time = time.time()
-            log_data = {'name': repr(func.__name__)}
-
-            if add_log_data:
-                return_value = func(*args, log_data=log_data, **kwargs)
-            else:
-                return_value = func(*args, **kwargs)
-
-            log_data['delta'] = time.time() - start_time
-            if isinstance(return_value, dict):
-                log_data.update(return_value)
-
-            if msg is None:
-                record_msg = 'Running {name} took {delta:.2f}s'
-            else:
-                record_msg = msg
-            if log_data['delta'] > cutoff:
-                func_logger.info(record_msg.format(**log_data))
-            elif log_data['delta'] > debug_cutoff:
-                func_logger.debug(record_msg.format(**log_data))
-            return return_value
-
-        return _new_func
-
-    return log_excess_runtime_decorator
-
-
 def unified_job_class_to_event_table_name(job_class):
     return f'main_{job_class().event_class.__name__.lower()}'