diff --git a/pkg/errhelp/errhelp.go b/pkg/errhelp/errhelp.go
index 6da87bdd0e0..99a9482f675 100644
--- a/pkg/errhelp/errhelp.go
+++ b/pkg/errhelp/errhelp.go
@@ -9,6 +9,12 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 )
 
+// ErrIdsRegex is used to find and remove uuids from errors
+var ErrIdsRegex *regexp.Regexp
+
+// ErrTimesRegex allows timestamp seconds to be removed from error strings
+var ErrTimesRegex *regexp.Regexp
+
 // StripErrorIDs takes an error and returns its string representation after filtering some common ID patterns
 func StripErrorIDs(err error) string {
 	patterns := []string{
@@ -17,14 +23,20 @@ func StripErrorIDs(err error) string {
 		"Tracking ID: ",
 		"requestId",
 	}
-	reg := regexp.MustCompile(fmt.Sprintf(`(%s)\S+`, strings.Join(patterns, "|")))
-	return reg.ReplaceAllString(err.Error(), "")
+
+	if ErrIdsRegex == nil {
+		ErrIdsRegex = regexp.MustCompile(fmt.Sprintf(`(%s)\S+`, strings.Join(patterns, "|")))
+	}
+
+	return ErrIdsRegex.ReplaceAllString(err.Error(), "")
 
 }
 
 // StripErrorTimes removes the hours:minutes:seconds from a date to prevent updates to Status.Message from changing unnecessarily
 func StripErrorTimes(err string) string {
-	reg := regexp.MustCompile(`(T\d\d:\d\d:\d\d)\"`)
-	return reg.ReplaceAllString(err, "")
+	if ErrTimesRegex == nil {
+		ErrTimesRegex = regexp.MustCompile(`(T\d\d:\d\d:\d\d)\"`)
+	}
+	return ErrTimesRegex.ReplaceAllString(err, "")
 
 }