diff --git a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/settings/AlertingSettings.kt b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/settings/AlertingSettings.kt
index a0f417fe2..cc7df33ae 100644
--- a/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/settings/AlertingSettings.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/main/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/settings/AlertingSettings.kt
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ class AlertingSettings {
 
         val CROSS_CLUSTER_MONITORING_ENABLED = Setting.boolSetting(
             "plugins.alerting.cross_cluster_monitoring_enabled",
-            true,
+            false,
             Setting.Property.NodeScope, Setting.Property.Dynamic
         )
 
diff --git a/alerting/src/test/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/transport/GetRemoteIndexesActionIT.kt b/alerting/src/test/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/transport/GetRemoteIndexesActionIT.kt
index aef16d5ae..83e24332e 100644
--- a/alerting/src/test/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/transport/GetRemoteIndexesActionIT.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/test/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/transport/GetRemoteIndexesActionIT.kt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import java.util.*
 
 @Suppress("UNCHECKED_CAST")
 class GetRemoteIndexesActionIT : AlertingRestTestCase() {
-    private var remoteMonitoringEnabled = true
+    private var remoteMonitoringEnabled = false
     private var remoteClusters = listOf<String>()
 
     private val mappingFieldToTypePairs1 = listOf(