diff --git a/tenants/tenant-3/elasticsearch-data-1.yaml b/tenants/tenant-3/elasticsearch-data-1.yaml
index 27ebeb1..6bbb437 100644
--- a/tenants/tenant-3/elasticsearch-data-1.yaml
+++ b/tenants/tenant-3/elasticsearch-data-1.yaml
@@ -26,9 +26,12 @@ port_forwards:
 health_check:
   type: "tcp"
   port: 9300
-  interval: "20s"
+  # A cold Elasticsearch boot can outlast a 20s x 3 (~60s) failure budget,
+  # which restarts the VM just before the transport port opens. Keep the
+  # ~150s+ budget consistent across all three tenant-3 services.
+  interval: "30s"
   timeout: "5s"
-  retries: 3
+  retries: 5
 node_host_ip_env: "transport.publish_host"
 cross_node_links:
   - service: "elasticsearch-data-2"
diff --git a/tenants/tenant-3/elasticsearch-data-2.yaml b/tenants/tenant-3/elasticsearch-data-2.yaml
index 0ac4209..797323d 100644
--- a/tenants/tenant-3/elasticsearch-data-2.yaml
+++ b/tenants/tenant-3/elasticsearch-data-2.yaml
@@ -26,9 +26,12 @@ port_forwards:
 health_check:
   type: "tcp"
   port: 9300
-  interval: "20s"
+  # A cold Elasticsearch boot can outlast a 20s x 3 (~60s) failure budget,
+  # which restarts the VM just before the transport port opens. Keep the
+  # ~150s+ budget consistent across all three tenant-3 services.
+  interval: "30s"
   timeout: "5s"
-  retries: 3
+  retries: 5
 node_host_ip_env: "transport.publish_host"
 cross_node_links:
   - service: "elasticsearch-data-1"
diff --git a/tenants/tenant-3/elasticsearch-voting-only.yaml b/tenants/tenant-3/elasticsearch-voting-only.yaml
index 98d1f2d..f1df228 100644
--- a/tenants/tenant-3/elasticsearch-voting-only.yaml
+++ b/tenants/tenant-3/elasticsearch-voting-only.yaml
@@ -25,9 +25,12 @@ port_forwards:
 health_check:
   type: "tcp"
   port: 9300
-  interval: "20s"
+  # First boot on 1 vCPU takes longer than a 20s x 3 (~60s) failure budget,
+  # so the agent kept restarting the VM before the transport port opened.
+  # Match the ~150s budget that tenant-2 kibana needed for slow cold starts.
+  interval: "30s"
   timeout: "5s"
-  retries: 3
+  retries: 5
 node_host_ip_env: "transport.publish_host"
 cross_node_links:
   - service: "elasticsearch-data-1"