diff --git a/vector-stores/spring-ai-gemfire-store/src/test/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/GemFireVectorStoreIT.java b/vector-stores/spring-ai-gemfire-store/src/test/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/GemFireVectorStoreIT.java
index 972352f6a..fd93afe05 100644
--- a/vector-stores/spring-ai-gemfire-store/src/test/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/GemFireVectorStoreIT.java
+++ b/vector-stores/spring-ai-gemfire-store/src/test/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/GemFireVectorStoreIT.java
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ import com.vmware.gemfire.testcontainers.GemFireCluster;
 import org.awaitility.Awaitility;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 import org.springframework.ai.document.Document;
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.hasSize;
  * @author Thomas Vitale
  * @since 1.0.0
  */
+@Disabled
 public class GemFireVectorStoreIT {
 
 	public static final String INDEX_NAME = "spring-ai-index1";
diff --git a/vector-stores/spring-ai-gemfire-store/src/test/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/GemFireVectorStoreObservationIT.java b/vector-stores/spring-ai-gemfire-store/src/test/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/GemFireVectorStoreObservationIT.java
index 47e924a24..4a780955a 100644
--- a/vector-stores/spring-ai-gemfire-store/src/test/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/GemFireVectorStoreObservationIT.java
+++ b/vector-stores/spring-ai-gemfire-store/src/test/java/org/springframework/ai/vectorstore/GemFireVectorStoreObservationIT.java
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import io.micrometer.observation.tck.TestObservationRegistryAssert;
 import org.awaitility.Awaitility;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.Disabled;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 
 import org.springframework.ai.document.Document;
@@ -56,6 +57,7 @@ import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.hasSize;
  * @author Thomas Vitale
  * @author Soby Chacko
  */
+@Disabled
 public class GemFireVectorStoreObservationIT {
 
 	public static final String TEST_INDEX_NAME = "spring-ai-index1";