diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/audit/request.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/audit/request.go
index 9593b6c8ab4d1..ddd98b3386238 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/audit/request.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/apiserver/pkg/audit/request.go
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 const (
-	maxUserAgentLength      = 1024
+	maxUserAgentLength      = 16384
 	userAgentTruncateSuffix = "...TRUNCATED"
 )