diff --git a/testing/integration/logs_ingestion_test.go b/testing/integration/logs_ingestion_test.go
index 5227e1026e2..e5d1332d344 100644
--- a/testing/integration/logs_ingestion_test.go
+++ b/testing/integration/logs_ingestion_test.go
@@ -126,32 +126,7 @@ func testMonitoringLogsAreShipped(
 			c.Name, client.Healthy, client.State(c.State))
 	}
 
-	// Stage 3: Make sure there are no errors in logs
-	t.Log("Making sure there are no error logs")
-	docs = queryESDocs(t, func() (estools.Documents, error) {
-		return estools.CheckForErrorsInLogs(info.ESClient, info.Namespace, []string{
-			// acceptable error messages (include reason)
-			"Error dialing dial tcp 127.0.0.1:9200: connect: connection refused", // beat is running default config before its config gets updated
-			"Global configuration artifact is not available",                     // Endpoint: failed to load user artifact due to connectivity issues
-			"Failed to download artifact",
-			"Failed to initialize artifact",
-			"Failed to apply initial policy from on disk configuration",
-			"elastic-agent-client error: rpc error: code = Canceled desc = context canceled", // can happen on restart
-			"add_cloud_metadata: received error failed requesting openstack metadata: Get \\\"https://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/instance-id\\\": dial tcp 169.254.169.254:443: connect: connection refused",                 // okay for the openstack metadata to not work
-			"add_cloud_metadata: received error failed requesting openstack metadata: Get \\\"https://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/hostname\\\": dial tcp 169.254.169.254:443: connect: connection refused",                    // okay for the cloud metadata to not work
-			"add_cloud_metadata: received error failed requesting openstack metadata: Get \\\"https://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/placement/availability-zone\\\": dial tcp 169.254.169.254:443: connect: connection refused", // okay for the cloud metadata to not work
-			"add_cloud_metadata: received error failed requesting openstack metadata: Get \\\"https://169.254.169.254/2009-04-04/meta-data/instance-type\\\": dial tcp 169.254.169.254:443: connect: connection refused",               // okay for the cloud metadata to not work
-			"add_cloud_metadata: received error failed with http status code 404", // okay for the cloud metadata to not work
-			"add_cloud_metadata: received error failed fetching EC2 Identity Document: operation error ec2imds: GetInstanceIdentityDocument, http response error StatusCode: 404, request to EC2 IMDS failed", // okay for the cloud metadata to not work
-		})
-	})
-	t.Logf("error logs: Got %d documents", len(docs.Hits.Hits))
-	for _, doc := range docs.Hits.Hits {
-		t.Logf("%#v", doc.Source)
-	}
-	require.Empty(t, docs.Hits.Hits)
-
-	// Stage 4: Make sure we have message confirming central management is running
+	// Stage 3: Make sure we have message confirming central management is running
 	t.Log("Making sure we have message confirming central management is running")
 	docs = findESDocs(t, func() (estools.Documents, error) {
 		return estools.FindMatchingLogLines(info.ESClient, info.Namespace,
@@ -159,7 +134,7 @@ func testMonitoringLogsAreShipped(
 	})
 	require.NotZero(t, len(docs.Hits.Hits))
 
-	// Stage 5: verify logs from the monitoring components are not sent to the output
+	// Stage 4: verify logs from the monitoring components are not sent to the output
 	t.Log("Check monitoring logs")
 	hostname, err := os.Hostname()
 	if err != nil {