diff --git a/ui/app/mixins/cluster-route.js b/ui/app/mixins/cluster-route.js
index 3daa5099ce46..7ed1860728fc 100644
--- a/ui/app/mixins/cluster-route.js
+++ b/ui/app/mixins/cluster-route.js
@@ -26,16 +26,6 @@ export default Mixin.create({
       targetRoute !== transition.targetName &&
       targetRoute !== this.router.currentRouteName
     ) {
-      console.log(
-        'routeName: ',
-        this.routeName,
-        ' targetName: ',
-        transition.targetName,
-        ' targetRoute: ',
-        targetRoute,
-        ' currentRouteName: ',
-        this.router.currentRouteName
-      );
       if (
         // only want to redirect if we're going to authenticate
         targetRoute === AUTH &&
diff --git a/ui/tests/acceptance/redirect-to-test.js b/ui/tests/acceptance/redirect-to-test.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..4cdec62df659
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/tests/acceptance/redirect-to-test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+import { currentURL, visit } from '@ember/test-helpers';
+import { module, test } from 'qunit';
+import { setupApplicationTest } from 'ember-qunit';
+import authPage from 'vault/tests/pages/auth';
+
+module('Acceptance | redirect_to functionality', function(hooks) {
+  setupApplicationTest(hooks);
+
+  test('redirect to a route after authentication', async function(assert) {
+    let url = '/vault/secrets/secret/create';
+    await visit(url);
+    assert.equal(
+      currentURL(),
+      `/vault/auth?redirect_to=${encodeURIComponent(url)}&with=token`,
+      'encodes url for the query param'
+    );
+    // the login method on this page does another visit call that we don't want here
+    await authPage.tokenInput('root').submit();
+    assert.equal(currentURL(), url, 'navigates to the redirect_to url after auth');
+  });
+
+  test('redirect from root does not include redirect_to', async function(assert) {
+    let url = '/';
+    await visit(url);
+    assert.equal(currentURL(), `/vault/auth?with=token`, 'there is no redirect_to query param');
+  });
+
+  test('redirect to a route after authentication with a query param', async function(assert) {
+    let url = '/vault/secrets/secret/create?initialKey=hello';
+    await visit(url);
+    assert.equal(
+      currentURL(),
+      `/vault/auth?redirect_to=${encodeURIComponent(url)}&with=token`,
+      'encodes url for the query param'
+    );
+    await authPage.tokenInput('root').submit();
+    assert.equal(currentURL(), url, 'navigates to the redirect_to with the query param after auth');
+  });
+});