diff --git a/cypress/integration/plugins/alerting-dashboards-plugin/acknowledge_alerts_modal_spec.js b/cypress/integration/plugins/alerting-dashboards-plugin/acknowledge_alerts_modal_spec.js
index b39bee65b..260efaf34 100644
--- a/cypress/integration/plugins/alerting-dashboards-plugin/acknowledge_alerts_modal_spec.js
+++ b/cypress/integration/plugins/alerting-dashboards-plugin/acknowledge_alerts_modal_spec.js
@@ -42,9 +42,15 @@ describe('AcknowledgeAlertsModal', () => {
   });
 
   beforeEach(() => {
+    const getMonitorsUrl = new RegExp('.*api/alerting/monitors/_search.*');
+    cy.intercept(getMonitorsUrl).as('searchMonitors');
+
     // Reloading the page to close any modals that were not closed by other tests that had failures.
     cy.visit(`${BASE_PATH}/app/${ALERTING_PLUGIN_NAME}#/dashboard`);
 
+    // Wait for the monitor search call to finish before checking for the monitors below
+    cy.wait('@searchMonitors');
+
     // Confirm dashboard is displaying rows for the test monitors.
     cy.contains(BUCKET_MONITOR, { timeout: TWENTY_SECONDS });
     cy.contains(QUERY_MONITOR, { timeout: TWENTY_SECONDS });