diff --git a/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elasticsearch-templates-load b/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elasticsearch-templates-load
index b2d9e36a0..758f601eb 100755
--- a/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elasticsearch-templates-load
+++ b/salt/elasticsearch/tools/sbin_jinja/so-elasticsearch-templates-load
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ load_template() {
   file=$2
 
   echo "Loading template file $i" 
-  if ! retry 3 5 "so-elasticsearch-query $uri -d@$file -XPUT" "{\"acknowledged\":true}"; then
+  if ! retry 3 1 "so-elasticsearch-query $uri -d@$file -XPUT" "{\"acknowledged\":true}"; then
     if [[ $should_exit_on_failure -eq 1 ]]; then
       fail "Could not load template file: $file"
     else