diff --git a/test/packages/parallel/gcp/data_stream/compute/_dev/test/system/test-default-config.yml b/test/packages/parallel/gcp/data_stream/compute/_dev/test/system/test-default-config.yml
index 10578a9967..bc61994064 100644
--- a/test/packages/parallel/gcp/data_stream/compute/_dev/test/system/test-default-config.yml
+++ b/test/packages/parallel/gcp/data_stream/compute/_dev/test/system/test-default-config.yml
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ data_stream:
   vars:
     zone: "{{GCP_ZONE}}"
     region: "{{GCP_REGION}}"
+skip.link: https://github.com/elastic/elastic-package/issues/1381
+skip.reason: GCP test package keep failing with could not find hits in metrics-gcp.compute-ep data stream