diff --git a/tests/e2e-openshift/kafka/00-create-kafka-instance.yaml b/tests/e2e-openshift/kafka/00-create-kafka-instance.yaml
index a137dd3325..044d2b882f 100644
--- a/tests/e2e-openshift/kafka/00-create-kafka-instance.yaml
+++ b/tests/e2e-openshift/kafka/00-create-kafka-instance.yaml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ spec:
       reconciliationIntervalSeconds: 120
   kafka:
     config:
-      log.message.format.version: 3.5.0
+      log.message.format.version: 3.7.0
       message.max.bytes: 10485760
       offsets.topic.replication.factor: 1
       ssl.cipher.suites: TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ spec:
         memory: 4Gi
     storage:
       type: ephemeral
-    version: 3.5.0
+    version: 3.7.0
   zookeeper:
     replicas: 1
     storage:
diff --git a/tests/e2e-openshift/kafka/chainsaw-test.yaml b/tests/e2e-openshift/kafka/chainsaw-test.yaml
index c58c51db22..faf789f182 100755
--- a/tests/e2e-openshift/kafka/chainsaw-test.yaml
+++ b/tests/e2e-openshift/kafka/chainsaw-test.yaml
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ metadata:
   creationTimestamp: null
   name: kafka
 spec:
+  namespace: chainsaw-kafka
   steps:
   - name: step-00
     try: