diff --git a/ansible/roles/monasca/handlers/main.yml b/ansible/roles/monasca/handlers/main.yml
index dd3f1016c1..7eb6162825 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/monasca/handlers/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/roles/monasca/handlers/main.yml
@@ -180,9 +180,10 @@
       status_code: 200
   register: result
   until: result.get('status') == 200
-  retries: 10
+  retries: 40
   delay: 2
   when:
+    - kolla_action != "config"
     - inventory_hostname == groups[service.group]|first
 
 - name: Restart remaining monasca-grafana containers