diff --git a/tests/unit/latency-monitor.tcl b/tests/unit/latency-monitor.tcl
index e4f45389d7..cabb90d382 100644
--- a/tests/unit/latency-monitor.tcl
+++ b/tests/unit/latency-monitor.tcl
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ tags {"needs:debug"} {
 } ;# tag
 
     test {LATENCY of expire events are correctly collected} {
-        r config set latency-monitor-threshold 20
+        r config set latency-monitor-threshold 1
         r config set lazyfree-lazy-expire no
         r flushdb
         if {$::valgrind} {set count 100000} else {set count 1000000}