diff --git a/dialogue-core/src/main/java/com/palantir/dialogue/core/Uris.java b/dialogue-core/src/main/java/com/palantir/dialogue/core/Uris.java
index 0da050321..b3baad47e 100644
--- a/dialogue-core/src/main/java/com/palantir/dialogue/core/Uris.java
+++ b/dialogue-core/src/main/java/com/palantir/dialogue/core/Uris.java
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 import com.github.benmanes.caffeine.cache.Caffeine;
 import com.github.benmanes.caffeine.cache.LoadingCache;
 import com.palantir.dialogue.DialogueImmutablesStyle;
+import com.palantir.logsafe.Arg;
 import com.palantir.logsafe.Preconditions;
 import com.palantir.logsafe.Unsafe;
 import com.palantir.logsafe.UnsafeArg;
@@ -41,6 +42,9 @@ public final class Uris {
      */
     private static final String MESH_PREFIX = "mesh-";
 
+    private static final Arg<?>[] EMPTY_ARGS = new Arg[0];
+    private static final StackTraceElement[] EMPTY_STACKTRACE = new StackTraceElement[0];
+
     /**
      * Shared cache of string to parsed URI. This avoids excessive allocation overhead when parsing repeated targets.
      */
@@ -110,7 +114,10 @@ default boolean isMeshMode() {
         default URI uriOrThrow() {
             SafeIllegalArgumentException exception = exception();
             if (exception != null) {
-                throw exception;
+                throw new SafeIllegalArgumentException(
+                        exception.getLogMessage(),
+                        exception,
+                        exception.getArgs().toArray(EMPTY_ARGS));
             }
             return Preconditions.checkNotNull(uri(), "uri");
         }
@@ -125,6 +132,8 @@ default void check() {
         }
 
         static @Unsafe MaybeUri failure(SafeIllegalArgumentException exception) {
+            // do not cache stacktrace elements
+            exception.setStackTrace(EMPTY_STACKTRACE);
             return ImmutableMaybeUri.of(null, exception);
         }
     }