diff --git a/src/plugins/telemetry/server/telemetry_collection/constants.ts b/src/plugins/telemetry/server/telemetry_collection/constants.ts
index 41629ec71c2e8..cac34967e87a3 100644
--- a/src/plugins/telemetry/server/telemetry_collection/constants.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/telemetry/server/telemetry_collection/constants.ts
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@
  * The timeout used by each request, whenever a timeout can be specified.
  */
 export const TIMEOUT = '30s';
+export const CLUSTER_STAT_TIMEOUT = '60s';
diff --git a/src/plugins/telemetry/server/telemetry_collection/get_cluster_stats.test.ts b/src/plugins/telemetry/server/telemetry_collection/get_cluster_stats.test.ts
index 16cf7b70b9df2..a517fa48e94f9 100644
--- a/src/plugins/telemetry/server/telemetry_collection/get_cluster_stats.test.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/telemetry/server/telemetry_collection/get_cluster_stats.test.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 import { elasticsearchServiceMock } from '@kbn/core/server/mocks';
 import { getClusterStats } from './get_cluster_stats';
-import { TIMEOUT } from './constants';
+import { CLUSTER_STAT_TIMEOUT } from './constants';
 
 describe('get_cluster_stats', () => {
   it('uses the esClient to get the response from the `cluster.stats` API', async () => {
@@ -17,12 +17,15 @@ describe('get_cluster_stats', () => {
     const esClient = elasticsearchServiceMock.createClusterClient().asInternalUser;
     esClient.cluster.stats.mockImplementationOnce(
       // @ts-expect-error the method only cares about the response body
-      async (_params = { timeout: TIMEOUT }) => {
+      async (_params = { timeout: CLUSTER_STAT_TIMEOUT }) => {
         return response;
       }
     );
     const result = await getClusterStats(esClient);
-    expect(esClient.cluster.stats).toHaveBeenCalledWith({ timeout: TIMEOUT });
+    expect(esClient.cluster.stats).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
+      { timeout: CLUSTER_STAT_TIMEOUT, include_remotes: true },
+      { requestTimeout: CLUSTER_STAT_TIMEOUT }
+    );
     expect(result).toStrictEqual(response);
   });
 });
diff --git a/src/plugins/telemetry/server/telemetry_collection/get_cluster_stats.ts b/src/plugins/telemetry/server/telemetry_collection/get_cluster_stats.ts
index 20624cb0ea516..35afcacc3d0b5 100644
--- a/src/plugins/telemetry/server/telemetry_collection/get_cluster_stats.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/telemetry/server/telemetry_collection/get_cluster_stats.ts
@@ -9,15 +9,25 @@
 
 import { ClusterDetailsGetter } from '@kbn/telemetry-collection-manager-plugin/server';
 import { ElasticsearchClient } from '@kbn/core/server';
-import { TIMEOUT } from './constants';
+import { CLUSTER_STAT_TIMEOUT } from './constants';
 
 /**
  * Get the cluster stats from the connected cluster.
  *
- * This is the equivalent to GET /_cluster/stats?timeout=30s.
+ * This is the equivalent to GET /_cluster/stats?timeout=60s&include_remotes=true
  */
 export async function getClusterStats(esClient: ElasticsearchClient) {
-  return await esClient.cluster.stats({ timeout: TIMEOUT });
+  return await esClient.cluster.stats(
+    {
+      timeout: CLUSTER_STAT_TIMEOUT,
+
+      // @ts-expect-error
+      include_remotes: true,
+    },
+    {
+      requestTimeout: CLUSTER_STAT_TIMEOUT, // enforce that Kibana would wait at least as long for ES to complete.
+    }
+  );
 }
 
 /**