diff --git a/qa/full-cluster-restart/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/upgrades/FullClusterRestartIT.java b/qa/full-cluster-restart/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/upgrades/FullClusterRestartIT.java
index 00d700d2d52..568ae43c323 100644
--- a/qa/full-cluster-restart/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/upgrades/FullClusterRestartIT.java
+++ b/qa/full-cluster-restart/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/upgrades/FullClusterRestartIT.java
@@ -615,6 +615,7 @@ public class FullClusterRestartIT extends ESRestTestCase {
      * Tests recovery of an index with or without a translog and the
      * statistics we gather about that.
      */
+    @AwaitsFix(bugUrl="https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/27649")
     public void testRecovery() throws IOException {
         int count;
         boolean shouldHaveTranslog;