diff --git a/x-pack/test/api_integration/deployment_agnostic/apis/observability/slo/create_slo.ts b/x-pack/test/api_integration/deployment_agnostic/apis/observability/slo/create_slo.ts
index b263f86472fef..d5100075b5eca 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/api_integration/deployment_agnostic/apis/observability/slo/create_slo.ts
+++ b/x-pack/test/api_integration/deployment_agnostic/apis/observability/slo/create_slo.ts
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { cleanup, generate } from '@kbn/data-forge';
 import expect from '@kbn/expect';
 import { RoleCredentials } from '@kbn/ftr-common-functional-services';
 import { getSLOSummaryTransformId, getSLOTransformId } from '@kbn/slo-plugin/common/constants';
+import { UserProfile } from '@kbn/test/src/auth/types';
 import { DeploymentAgnosticFtrProviderContext } from '../../../ftr_provider_context';
 import { DEFAULT_SLO } from './fixtures/slo';
 import { DATA_FORGE_CONFIG } from './helpers/dataforge';
@@ -27,12 +28,14 @@ export default function ({ getService }: DeploymentAgnosticFtrProviderContext) {
 
   let adminRoleAuthc: RoleCredentials;
   let transformHelper: TransformHelper;
+  let userData: UserProfile;
 
   describe('Create SLOs', function () {
     // see details: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/207354
     this.tags(['failsOnMKI']);
     before(async () => {
       adminRoleAuthc = await samlAuth.createM2mApiKeyWithRoleScope('admin');
+      userData = await samlAuth.getUserData('admin');
       transformHelper = createTransformHelper(getService);
 
       await generate({ client: esClient, config: DATA_FORGE_CONFIG, logger });
@@ -64,9 +67,9 @@ export default function ({ getService }: DeploymentAgnosticFtrProviderContext) {
       expect(definitions.results[0]).eql({
         budgetingMethod: 'occurrences',
         updatedAt: definitions.results[0].updatedAt,
-        updatedBy: 'elastic_admin',
+        updatedBy: userData.username,
         createdAt: definitions.results[0].createdAt,
-        createdBy: 'elastic_admin',
+        createdBy: userData.username,
         description: 'Fixture for api integration tests',
         enabled: true,
         groupBy: 'tags',