ci: unit tests are failing (randomly) more often

**APM Server version** (`apm-server version`):

**Description of the problem including expected versus actual behavior**:

CI tests have been failing a lot more often lately. unit test failure seems to be ~38% according to github action perf metrics.

We should look into any flaky test

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