diff --git a/ui/src/router/components/form/validation/schema.js b/ui/src/router/components/form/validation/schema.js
index 697019f85..f5620703f 100644
--- a/ui/src/router/components/form/validation/schema.js
+++ b/ui/src/router/components/form/validation/schema.js
@@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ const routerNameRegex = /^[a-z0-9-]*$/,
   kafkaBrokersRegex =
     /^([a-z]+:\/\/)?\[?([0-9a-zA-Z\-%._:]*)\]?:([0-9]+)(,([a-z]+:\/\/)?\[?([0-9a-zA-Z\-%._:]*)\]?:([0-9]+))*$/i,
   kafkaTopicRegex = /^[A-Za-z0-9_.-]{1,249}/i,
-  trafficRuleNameRegex = /^[A-Za-z\d][\w\d \-()#$%&:.]*[\w\d\-()#$%&:.]$/;
+  trafficRuleNameRegex = /^[A-Za-z\d][\w\d \-()#$%&:.]*[\w\d\-()#$%&:.]$/,
+  routeNamePathRegex = /^[\w\-]*(?:\.[\w\-]+)*$/;
 
 const timeoutSchema = yup
   .string()
@@ -249,6 +250,7 @@ const mappingSchema = yup.object().shape({
 
 const standardEnsemblerConfigSchema = yup.object().shape({
   experiment_mappings: yup.array(mappingSchema),
+  route_name_path: yup.string().matches(routeNamePathRegex, "Route name path needs to be a valid period-delimited path"),
   fallback_response_route_id: validRouteSchema,
 });