diff --git a/tests/metrics/cmd/checkmetrics/ci_worker/checkmetrics-json-clh-kata-metric8.toml b/tests/metrics/cmd/checkmetrics/ci_worker/checkmetrics-json-clh-kata-metric8.toml
index 5c9f126dd7..3fafbc312d 100644
--- a/tests/metrics/cmd/checkmetrics/ci_worker/checkmetrics-json-clh-kata-metric8.toml
+++ b/tests/metrics/cmd/checkmetrics/ci_worker/checkmetrics-json-clh-kata-metric8.toml
@@ -211,6 +211,6 @@ description = "iperf"
 # within (inclusive)
 checkvar = ".\"network-iperf3\".Results | .[] | .jitter.Result"
 checktype = "mean"
-midval = 0.02
-minpercent = 70.0
-maxpercent = 60.0
+midval = 0.04
+minpercent = 85.0
+maxpercent = 80.0
diff --git a/tests/metrics/gha-run.sh b/tests/metrics/gha-run.sh
index 9ca6046491..c995e63005 100755
--- a/tests/metrics/gha-run.sh
+++ b/tests/metrics/gha-run.sh
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ function run_test_launchtimes() {
 	repetitions=20
 	if [[ ${KATA_HYPERVISOR} == "qemu" ]]; then
 		# The qemu workload seems to fail before it can run ~5-7 repetitions of the workload
-		repetitions=3
+		repetitions=2
 	fi
 
 	info "Running Launch Time test using ${KATA_HYPERVISOR} hypervisor"
diff --git a/tests/metrics/network/iperf3_kubernetes/k8s-network-metrics-iperf3.sh b/tests/metrics/network/iperf3_kubernetes/k8s-network-metrics-iperf3.sh
index 696be2f035..d0f7fc009b 100755
--- a/tests/metrics/network/iperf3_kubernetes/k8s-network-metrics-iperf3.sh
+++ b/tests/metrics/network/iperf3_kubernetes/k8s-network-metrics-iperf3.sh
@@ -186,8 +186,7 @@ function iperf3_start_deployment() {
 	kubectl create -f "${IPERF_DEPLOYMENT}"
 
 	# Check deployment creation
-	local cmd="kubectl wait --for=condition=Available deployment/iperf3-server-deployment"
-	waitForProcess "${wait_time}" "${sleep_time}" "${cmd}"
+	local cmd="kubectl wait --for=condition=Available deployment/iperf3-server-deployment --timeout=${wait_time}s"
 
 	# Create DaemonSet
 	kubectl create -f "${IPERF_DAEMONSET}"