diff --git a/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver/internal/scraper/networkscraper/network_scraper_test.go b/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver/internal/scraper/networkscraper/network_scraper_test.go
index 36fed0a11a073..34ec44bfcea3a 100644
--- a/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver/internal/scraper/networkscraper/network_scraper_test.go
+++ b/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver/internal/scraper/networkscraper/network_scraper_test.go
@@ -231,5 +231,5 @@ func assertNetworkConnectionsMetricValid(t *testing.T, metric pmetric.Metric) {
 	internal.AssertSumMetricHasAttributeValue(t, metric, 0, "protocol",
 		pcommon.NewValueStr(metadata.AttributeProtocolTcp.String()))
 	internal.AssertSumMetricHasAttribute(t, metric, 0, "state")
-	assert.Equal(t, 12, metric.Sum().DataPoints().Len())
+	assert.LessOrEqual(t, 12, metric.Sum().DataPoints().Len())
 }