diff --git a/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search.aggregation/10_histogram.yml b/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search.aggregation/10_histogram.yml
index fa71137912a91..996c2aae8cfe4 100644
--- a/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search.aggregation/10_histogram.yml
+++ b/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search.aggregation/10_histogram.yml
@@ -658,6 +658,7 @@ setup:
           settings:
             number_of_replicas: 0
             number_of_shards: 1
+            refresh_interval: -1
           mappings:
             properties:
               date:
diff --git a/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search.aggregation/230_composite.yml b/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search.aggregation/230_composite.yml
index 3a0099dae3b33..78e2e6858c6ff 100644
--- a/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search.aggregation/230_composite.yml
+++ b/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search.aggregation/230_composite.yml
@@ -1083,6 +1083,7 @@ setup:
           settings:
             number_of_replicas: 0
             number_of_shards: 1
+            refresh_interval: -1
           mappings:
             properties:
               date:
diff --git a/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search.aggregation/330_auto_date_histogram.yml b/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search.aggregation/330_auto_date_histogram.yml
index 1356eac41ae79..fc82517788c91 100644
--- a/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search.aggregation/330_auto_date_histogram.yml
+++ b/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/search.aggregation/330_auto_date_histogram.yml
@@ -106,8 +106,36 @@ setup:
       version: " - 2.99.99"
       reason: debug info for filter rewrite added in 3.0.0 (to be backported to 2.14.0)
 
+  - do:
+      indices.create:
+        index: test_profile
+        body:
+          settings:
+            number_of_shards: 1
+            number_of_replicas: 0
+            refresh_interval: -1
+          mappings:
+            properties:
+              date:
+                type: date
+
+  - do:
+      bulk:
+        index: test_profile
+        refresh: true
+        body:
+          - '{"index": {}}'
+          - '{"date": "2020-03-01", "v": 1}'
+          - '{"index": {}}'
+          - '{"date": "2020-03-02", "v": 2}'
+          - '{"index": {}}'
+          - '{"date": "2020-03-08", "v": 3}'
+          - '{"index": {}}'
+          - '{"date": "2020-03-09", "v": 4}'
+
   - do:
       search:
+        index: test_profile
         body:
           profile: true
           size: 0