diff --git a/.github/workflows/operator-integration-test.yml b/.github/workflows/operator-integration-test.yml
index 3db79ee35..b81886a06 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/operator-integration-test.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/operator-integration-test.yml
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@ jobs:
       - name: Test for default instrumentation resources for Java
         run: |
           kubectl apply -f integration-tests/java/sample-deployment-java.yaml
-#         sleep is to make sure the app is fully active before restart wait doesn't work as accurately
           sleep 5 
           kubectl get pods -A 
           kubectl describe pods -n default
@@ -82,7 +81,7 @@ jobs:
           kubectl apply -f integration-tests/manifests/sample-instrumentation.yaml
           sleep 5
           kubectl rollout restart deployment nginx
-          kubectl wait --for=condition=Available deployment/nginx -n default
+          sleep 5
           kubectl get pods -A
           kubectl describe pods -n default
           cd integration-tests/manifests/cmd
@@ -94,7 +93,7 @@ jobs:
           kubectl apply -f integration-tests/python/sample-deployment-python.yaml
           sleep 5
           kubectl rollout restart deployment nginx
-          kubectl wait --for=condition=Available deployment/nginx -n default
+          sleep 5
           kubectl get pods -A 
           kubectl describe pods -n default
           go run integration-tests/manifests/cmd/validate_instrumentation_vars.go default integration-tests/python/default_instrumentation_python_env_variables.json
@@ -104,7 +103,7 @@ jobs:
           kubectl apply -f integration-tests/manifests/sample-instrumentation.yaml
           sleep 5
           kubectl rollout restart deployment nginx
-          kubectl wait --for=condition=Available deployment/nginx -n default
+          sleep 5
           kubectl describe pods -n default
           cd integration-tests/manifests/cmd
           go run validate_instrumentation_vars.go default ns_instrumentation_env_variables.json
@@ -115,7 +114,6 @@ jobs:
           kubectl apply -f integration-tests/python-java/sample-deployment-python-java.yaml
           sleep 5
           kubectl rollout restart deployment nginx
-          kubectl wait --for=condition=Available deployment/nginx -n default
           sleep 5
           kubectl get pods -A 
           kubectl describe pods -n default
@@ -127,7 +125,7 @@ jobs:
           kubectl apply -f integration-tests/manifests/sample-instrumentation.yaml
           sleep 5
           kubectl rollout restart deployment nginx
-          kubectl wait --for=condition=Available deployment/nginx -n default
+          sleep 5
           kubectl get pods -A
           kubectl describe pods -n default
           cd integration-tests/manifests/cmd
diff --git a/integration-tests/python-java/default_instrumentation_python-java_env_variables.json b/integration-tests/python-java/default_instrumentation_python-java_env_variables.json
index cb2f787e9..7d0b72cc7 100644
--- a/integration-tests/python-java/default_instrumentation_python-java_env_variables.json
+++ b/integration-tests/python-java/default_instrumentation_python-java_env_variables.json
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 {
   "PYTHONPATH": "/otel-auto-instrumentation-python/opentelemetry/instrumentation/auto_instrumentation:/otel-auto-instrumentation-python",
   "OTEL_AWS_APP_SIGNALS_ENABLED": "true",
+  "OTEL_AWS_APPLICATION_SIGNALS_ENABLED": "true",
   "OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER_ARG": "endpoint=http://cloudwatch-agent.amazon-cloudwatch:2000",
   "OTEL_TRACES_SAMPLER": "xray",
   "OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL": "http/protobuf",
@@ -10,8 +11,7 @@
   "OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER": "none",
   "OTEL_PYTHON_DISTRO": "aws_distro",
   "OTEL_PYTHON_CONFIGURATOR": "aws_configurator",
-  "OTEL_SMP_ENABLED": "true",
-  "OTEL_AWS_SMP_EXPORTER_ENDPOINT": "http://cloudwatch-agent.amazon-cloudwatch:4316/v1/metrics",
+  "OTEL_AWS_APPLICATION_SIGNALS_EXPORTER_ENDPOINT": "http://cloudwatch-agent.amazon-cloudwatch:4316/v1/metrics",
   "JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS": "-javaagent:/otel-auto-instrumentation-java/javaagent.jar"
 
 }
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