diff --git a/x-pack/test/functional/apps/monitoring/enable_monitoring/index.js b/x-pack/test/functional/apps/monitoring/enable_monitoring/index.js
index fefad214736e6f..70f7e0559d0346 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/functional/apps/monitoring/enable_monitoring/index.js
+++ b/x-pack/test/functional/apps/monitoring/enable_monitoring/index.js
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ export default function ({ getService, getPageObjects }) {
   const PageObjects = getPageObjects(['monitoring', 'common', 'header']);
   const esSupertest = getService('esSupertest');
   const noData = getService('monitoringNoData');
+  const testSubjects = getService('testSubjects');
   const clusterOverview = getService('monitoringClusterOverview');
   const retry = getService('retry');
 
@@ -46,8 +47,10 @@ export default function ({ getService, getPageObjects }) {
       });
 
       // Here we are checking that once Monitoring is enabled,
-      //it moves on to the cluster overview page.
-      await retry.try(async () => {
+      // it moves on to the cluster overview page.
+      await retry.tryForTime(10000, async () => {
+        // Click the refresh button
+        await testSubjects.click('querySubmitButton');
         expect(await clusterOverview.isOnClusterOverview()).to.be(true);
       });
     });
diff --git a/x-pack/test/functional/apps/monitoring/time_filter.js b/x-pack/test/functional/apps/monitoring/time_filter.js
index 11557d995218e8..127c7d8889bc4f 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/functional/apps/monitoring/time_filter.js
+++ b/x-pack/test/functional/apps/monitoring/time_filter.js
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@
 import expect from '@kbn/expect';
 import { getLifecycleMethods } from './_get_lifecycle_methods';
 
-const delay = (ms) => new Promise((resolve) => setTimeout(resolve, ms));
-
 export default function ({ getService, getPageObjects }) {
   const PageObjects = getPageObjects(['header', 'timePicker']);
   const testSubjects = getService('testSubjects');
@@ -36,12 +34,9 @@ export default function ({ getService, getPageObjects }) {
       expect(isLoading).to.be(true);
     });
 
-    it('should send another request when changing the time picker', async () => {
-      /**
-       * TODO: The value should either be removed or lowered after:
-       * https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/72997 is resolved
-       */
-      await delay(3000);
+    // TODO: [cr] I'm not sure this test is any better than the above one, we might need to rely solely on unit tests
+    // for this functionality
+    it.skip('should send another request when changing the time picker', async () => {
       await PageObjects.timePicker.setAbsoluteRange(
         'Aug 15, 2016 @ 21:00:00.000',
         'Aug 16, 2016 @ 00:00:00.000'