diff --git a/test/e2e/es_cluster_logging.go b/test/e2e/es_cluster_logging.go
index 21b359d2ae9..81e2dab8c0a 100644
--- a/test/e2e/es_cluster_logging.go
+++ b/test/e2e/es_cluster_logging.go
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ func nodeInNodeList(nodeName string, nodeList *api.NodeList) bool {
 // ClusterLevelLoggingWithElasticsearch is an end to end test for cluster level logging.
 func ClusterLevelLoggingWithElasticsearch(f *Framework) {
 	// graceTime is how long to keep retrying requests for status information.
-	const graceTime = 2 * time.Minute
+	const graceTime = 5 * time.Minute
 	// ingestionTimeout is how long to keep retrying to wait for all the
 	// logs to be ingested.
 	const ingestionTimeout = 3 * time.Minute
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ func ClusterLevelLoggingWithElasticsearch(f *Framework) {
 	var esResponse map[string]interface{}
 	err = nil
 	var body []byte
-	for start := time.Now(); time.Since(start) < graceTime; time.Sleep(5 * time.Second) {
+	for start := time.Now(); time.Since(start) < graceTime; time.Sleep(10 * time.Second) {
 		// Query against the root URL for Elasticsearch.
 		body, err = f.Client.Get().
 			Namespace(api.NamespaceSystem).
@@ -136,6 +136,10 @@ func ClusterLevelLoggingWithElasticsearch(f *Framework) {
 			Logf("After %v expected status to be a float64 but got %v of type %T", time.Since(start), statusIntf, statusIntf)
 			continue
 		}
+		if int(statusCode) != 200 {
+			Logf("After %v Elasticsearch cluster has a bad status: %v", time.Since(start), statusCode)
+			continue
+		}
 		break
 	}
 	Expect(err).NotTo(HaveOccurred())