diff --git a/integration/getting_started_with_gossiped_ring_test.go b/integration/getting_started_with_gossiped_ring_test.go
index bc7dbd42c83..3b9239310b0 100644
--- a/integration/getting_started_with_gossiped_ring_test.go
+++ b/integration/getting_started_with_gossiped_ring_test.go
@@ -110,10 +110,6 @@ func TestGettingStartedWithGossipedRing(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Equal(t, model.ValVector, result.Type())
 	assert.Equal(t, expectedVector, result.(model.Vector))
 
-	// Before flushing the blocks we expect no store-gateway has loaded any block.
-	require.NoError(t, cortex1.WaitSumMetrics(e2e.Equals(0), "cortex_bucket_store_blocks_loaded"))
-	require.NoError(t, cortex2.WaitSumMetrics(e2e.Equals(0), "cortex_bucket_store_blocks_loaded"))
-
 	// Flush blocks from ingesters to the store.
 	for _, instance := range []*e2ecortex.CortexService{cortex1, cortex2} {
 		res, err = e2e.GetRequest("http://" + instance.HTTPEndpoint() + "/flush")
@@ -124,8 +120,8 @@ func TestGettingStartedWithGossipedRing(t *testing.T) {
 	// Given store-gateway blocks sharding is enabled with the default replication factor of 3,
 	// and ingestion replication factor is 1, we do expect the series has been ingested by 1
 	// single ingester and so we have 1 block shipped from ingesters and loaded by both store-gateways.
-	require.NoError(t, cortex1.WaitSumMetrics(e2e.Equals(1), "cortex_bucket_store_blocks_loaded"))
-	require.NoError(t, cortex2.WaitSumMetrics(e2e.Equals(1), "cortex_bucket_store_blocks_loaded"))
+	require.NoError(t, cortex1.WaitSumMetricsWithOptions(e2e.Equals(1), []string{"cortex_bucket_store_blocks_loaded"}, e2e.WaitMissingMetrics))
+	require.NoError(t, cortex2.WaitSumMetricsWithOptions(e2e.Equals(1), []string{"cortex_bucket_store_blocks_loaded"}, e2e.WaitMissingMetrics))
 
 	// Make sure that no DNS failures occurred.
 	// No actual DNS lookups are necessarily performed, so we can't really assert on that.