diff --git a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
index fb602ee2af..82dd18b204 100644
--- a/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
+++ b/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionSha256Sum=31c55713e40233a8303827ceb42ca48a47267a0ad4bab9177123121e71524c26
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.10.2-bin.zip
+distributionSha256Sum=57dafb5c2622c6cc08b993c85b7c06956a2f53536432a30ead46166dbca0f1e9
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.11-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/opensearch/security/auditlog/compliance/ComplianceAuditlogTest.java b/src/test/java/org/opensearch/security/auditlog/compliance/ComplianceAuditlogTest.java
index 202b211526..ba5b987533 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/opensearch/security/auditlog/compliance/ComplianceAuditlogTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/opensearch/security/auditlog/compliance/ComplianceAuditlogTest.java
@@ -475,11 +475,15 @@ public void testWriteLogDiffsEnabledAndLogRequestBodyDisabled() throws Exception
         );
         updateAuditConfig(AuditTestUtils.createAuditPayload(auditConfig));
 
+        try (Client tc = getClient()) {
+            rh.executePutRequest("emp", "{\"settings\": {\"index\": {\"number_of_shards\": 1, \"number_of_replicas\": 0}}}");
+        }
+
         List<AuditMessage> messages = TestAuditlogImpl.doThenWaitForMessages(() -> {
             try (Client tc = getClient()) {
                 rh.executePutRequest("emp/_doc/0?refresh", "{\"name\" : \"Criag\", \"title\" : \"Software Engineer\"}");
             }
-        }, 7);
+        }, 3);
 
         AuditMessage complianceDocWriteMessage = messages.stream()
             .filter(m -> m.getCategory().equals(AuditCategory.COMPLIANCE_DOC_WRITE))