diff --git a/source/common/common/utility.cc b/source/common/common/utility.cc
index 06a2a7027fc46..d5cd020ab8af7 100644
--- a/source/common/common/utility.cc
+++ b/source/common/common/utility.cc
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ void DateFormatter::parse(const std::string& format_string) {
 
 std::string
 DateFormatter::fromTimeAndPrepareSpecifierOffsets(time_t time, SpecifierOffsets& specifier_offsets,
-                                                  const std::string& seconds_str) const {
+                                                  const absl::string_view seconds_str) const {
   std::string formatted_time;
 
   int32_t previous = 0;
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ std::string StringUtil::subspan(absl::string_view source, size_t start, size_t e
   return std::string(source.data() + start, end - start);
 }
 
-std::string StringUtil::escape(const std::string& source) {
+std::string StringUtil::escape(const absl::string_view source) {
   std::string ret;
 
   // Prevent unnecessary allocation by allocating 2x original size.
diff --git a/source/common/common/utility.h b/source/common/common/utility.h
index 24b29a1273500..b41286f8851f1 100644
--- a/source/common/common/utility.h
+++ b/source/common/common/utility.h
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ class DateFormatter {
 
   using SpecifierOffsets = std::vector<int32_t>;
   std::string fromTimeAndPrepareSpecifierOffsets(time_t time, SpecifierOffsets& specifier_offsets,
-                                                 const std::string& seconds_str) const;
+                                                 const absl::string_view seconds_str) const;
 
   // A container to hold a specifiers (%f, %Nf, %s) found in a format string.
   struct Specifier {
@@ -404,7 +404,7 @@ class StringUtil {
    * @param source supplies the string to escape.
    * @return escaped string.
    */
-  static std::string escape(const std::string& source);
+  static std::string escape(const absl::string_view source);
 
   /**
    * Outputs the string to the provided ostream, while escaping \n, \r, \t, and "