diff --git a/elasticsearch/x-pack/monitoring/src/test/resources/rest-api-spec/test/monitoring/bulk/10_basic.yaml b/elasticsearch/x-pack/monitoring/src/test/resources/rest-api-spec/test/monitoring/bulk/10_basic.yaml
index b238b7ffb50..6dad7415668 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/x-pack/monitoring/src/test/resources/rest-api-spec/test/monitoring/bulk/10_basic.yaml
+++ b/elasticsearch/x-pack/monitoring/src/test/resources/rest-api-spec/test/monitoring/bulk/10_basic.yaml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ setup:
       cluster.health:
           index: ".monitoring-data-*"
           wait_for_active_shards: 1
+          timeout: 60s
 
 ---
 "Bulk indexing of monitoring data":