diff --git a/plugin/storage/integration/elasticsearch_test.go b/plugin/storage/integration/elasticsearch_test.go
index ef5d8f3d77d3..4e99f2c3846e 100644
--- a/plugin/storage/integration/elasticsearch_test.go
+++ b/plugin/storage/integration/elasticsearch_test.go
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ func (s *ESStorageIntegration) initializeES(t *testing.T, c *http.Client, allTag
 		Transport:            c.Transport,
 	})
 	require.NoError(t, err)
-
 	s.initSpanstore(t, allTagsAsFields)
 
 	s.CleanUp = func(t *testing.T) {
@@ -111,7 +110,7 @@ func (*ESStorageIntegration) initializeESFactory(t *testing.T, allTagsAsFields b
 		fmt.Sprintf("--es.num-shards=%v", 5),
 		fmt.Sprintf("--es.num-replicas=%v", 1),
 		fmt.Sprintf("--es.index-prefix=%v", indexPrefix),
-		fmt.Sprintf("--es.use-ilm=%v", true),
+		fmt.Sprintf("--es.use-ilm=%v", false),
 		fmt.Sprintf("--es.service-cache-ttl=%v", 1*time.Second),
 		fmt.Sprintf("--es.tags-as-fields.all=%v", allTagsAsFields),
 		fmt.Sprintf("--es.bulk.actions=%v", 1),