diff --git a/flux2/apps/monitoring/loki-values-configmap.yaml b/flux2/apps/monitoring/loki-values-configmap.yaml
index c794447b1712a2effd4a364450f4fb0af942ab24..fed565d32ea6795afbcd838f6d3b937b4305741e 100644
--- a/flux2/apps/monitoring/loki-values-configmap.yaml
+++ b/flux2/apps/monitoring/loki-values-configmap.yaml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ data:
         chunk_idle_period: 30m
         chunk_block_size: 1048576
         chunk_retain_period: 15m
-        max_transfer_retries: 10
+        max_transfer_retries: 0
       # https://github.com/grafana/loki/blob/main/cmd/loki/loki-local-config.yaml
       # https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/operations/storage/retention
       schema_config: