diff --git a/playbooks/robusta_playbooks/popeye.py b/playbooks/robusta_playbooks/popeye.py
index 6a2f7186f..0a83823c0 100644
--- a/playbooks/robusta_playbooks/popeye.py
+++ b/playbooks/robusta_playbooks/popeye.py
@@ -179,8 +179,10 @@ def update_state(state: ScanState) -> None:
             delete_job_post_execution=False,
             process_name=False,
         )
+
+        logs = clean_up_k8s_logs_from_job_output(logs)
         scan = json.loads(logs)
-        popeye_scan = PopeyeReport(**scan["popeye"])
+        scan_report = PopeyeReport(**scan["popeye"])
     except Exception as e:
         if isinstance(e, JSONDecodeError):
             logging.exception(f"*Popeye scan job failed. Expecting json result.*\n\n Result:\n{logs}")
@@ -201,14 +203,14 @@ def update_state(state: ScanState) -> None:
         type=ScanType.POPEYE,
         start_time=start_time,
         end_time=datetime.now(),
-        score=popeye_scan.score,
+        score=scan_report.score,
         metadata=metadata,
         results=[],
         config=f"{params.args} \n\n {params.spinach}",
     )
 
     scan_issues: List[ScanReportRow] = []
-    for section in popeye_scan.sanitizers or []:
+    for section in scan_report.sanitizers or []:
         kind = section.sanitizer
         issues_dict: Dict[str, List[Issue]] = section.issues or {}
         for resource, issuesList in issues_dict.items():
@@ -239,3 +241,21 @@ def update_state(state: ScanState) -> None:
     )
     finding.add_enrichment([scan_block], annotations={EnrichmentAnnotation.SCAN: True})
     event.add_finding(finding)
+
+
+def clean_up_k8s_logs_from_job_output(logs: str) -> str:
+    """Remove any log messages prepended to job output by k8s."""
+    # This would ideally be handled inside RobustaJob.run_simple_job_spec, but the general
+    # job output processing code does not assume JSON output, so identifying spurious text
+    # would be problematic.
+    # Note this code is not able to correctly handle log messages containing endlines. Doing
+    # so would be impossible in some cases (like "{" following and endline) and/or
+    # require meticulous parsing of k8s log messages.
+    while logs and not logs.startswith("{"):
+        # Assume every line not looking like JSON is log information added by k8s
+        endline_pos = logs.find("\n")
+        if endline_pos == -1:
+            logs = ""
+        else:
+            logs = logs[endline_pos + 1:]
+    return logs
diff --git a/tests/test_popey_job_log_cleanup.py b/tests/test_popey_job_log_cleanup.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a0b0abbc7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_popey_job_log_cleanup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+from unittest import mock
+
+import pytest
+
+from playbooks.robusta_playbooks.popeye import clean_up_k8s_logs_from_job_output
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "input,expected_output",
+    [
+        ("", ""),
+        ("{}", "{}"),
+        ("{}\nextra text", "{}\nextra text"),
+        ('{"popeye": []}', '{"popeye": []}'),
+        ('{"popeye": []}\n{}', '{"popeye": []}\n{}'),
+        ('{"invalid_json": {[{', '{"invalid_json": {[{'),
+        (" \t\n", ""),
+        ('\nlog line 1\n\nweird log\n{"x": 3}', '{"x": 3}'),
+        (
+            "xxx Waited for 3.14159s due to client-side throttling, not priority and fairness, blah\n"
+            "\n"
+            '{"data": []}',
+            '{"data": []}',
+        ),
+        (
+            "xxx Waited for 21.37s - request: some text here\n" "\n" '{"x": 123}',
+            '{"x": 123}',
+        ),
+        (
+            "xxx Waited for 666s due to client-side throttling, not priority and fairness, blah\n"
+            "\n"
+            "aaa Waited for 777s - request: some text here\n"
+            "\n"
+            "bad logging message\n"
+            '{"p": "q"}',
+            '{"p": "q"}',
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+def test_clean_up_k8s_logs_from_job_output(input, expected_output):
+    assert clean_up_k8s_logs_from_job_output(input) == expected_output