diff --git a/CI/tests/test_telemetry.sh b/CI/tests/test_telemetry.sh
index 09832629..0c252e4d 100644
--- a/CI/tests/test_telemetry.sh
+++ b/CI/tests/test_telemetry.sh
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ function functional_test_telemetry {
   export post_config=""
   envsubst < CI/config/common_test_config.yaml > CI/config/telemetry.yaml
   retval=$(python3 -m coverage run -a run_kraken.py -c CI/config/telemetry.yaml)
-  RUN_FOLDER=`cat CI/out/test_telemetry.out | grep amazonaws.com | sed -rn "s#.*https:\/\/.*\/files/(.*)#\1#p"`
+  RUN_FOLDER=`cat CI/out/test_telemetry.out | grep amazonaws.com | sed -rn "s#.*https:\/\/.*\/files/(.*)#\1#p" | sed 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g'`
   $AWS_CLI s3 ls "s3://$AWS_BUCKET/$RUN_FOLDER/" | awk '{ print $4 }' > s3_remote_files
   echo "checking if telemetry files are uploaded on s3"
   cat s3_remote_files | grep critical-alerts-00.log || ( echo "FAILED: critical-alerts-00.log not uploaded"  && exit 1 )