diff --git a/alerting/src/test/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/resthandler/SecureAlertingCommentsRestApiIT.kt b/alerting/src/test/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/resthandler/SecureAlertingCommentsRestApiIT.kt
index 1826d8724..1da468485 100644
--- a/alerting/src/test/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/resthandler/SecureAlertingCommentsRestApiIT.kt
+++ b/alerting/src/test/kotlin/org/opensearch/alerting/resthandler/SecureAlertingCommentsRestApiIT.kt
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 
 package org.opensearch.alerting.resthandler
 
+import org.apache.hc.core5.http.ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON
+import org.apache.hc.core5.http.io.entity.StringEntity
 import org.junit.After
 import org.junit.Before
 import org.junit.BeforeClass
@@ -12,10 +14,12 @@ import org.opensearch.alerting.ALERTING_ACK_ALERTS_ROLE
 import org.opensearch.alerting.ALERTING_FULL_ACCESS_ROLE
 import org.opensearch.alerting.ALERTING_READ_ONLY_ACCESS
 import org.opensearch.alerting.AlertingRestTestCase
+import org.opensearch.alerting.makeRequest
 import org.opensearch.alerting.randomAlert
 import org.opensearch.alerting.settings.AlertingSettings.Companion.ALERTING_COMMENTS_ENABLED
 import org.opensearch.client.ResponseException
 import org.opensearch.client.RestClient
+import org.opensearch.common.xcontent.XContentType
 import org.opensearch.commons.alerting.model.Alert
 import org.opensearch.commons.rest.SecureRestClientBuilder
 import org.opensearch.core.rest.RestStatus
@@ -359,32 +363,31 @@ class SecureAlertingCommentsRestApiIT : AlertingRestTestCase() {
         }
     }
 
-    // TODO: Uncomment and this should pass in CIs
-//    fun `test user cannot directly search comments system index`() {
-//        createUserWithRoles(
-//            userA,
-//            listOf(ALERTING_FULL_ACCESS_ROLE),
-//            listOf(),
-//            false
-//        )
-//
-//        val monitor = createRandomMonitor(refresh = true)
-//        val alert = createAlert(randomAlert(monitor).copy(state = Alert.State.ACTIVE))
-//        val alertId = alert.id
-//        val commentContent = "test comment"
-//
-//        createAlertComment(alertId, commentContent, userAClient!!).id
-//
-//        val query = SearchSourceBuilder().query(QueryBuilders.matchAllQuery())
-//        val searchResponse = userAClient!!.makeRequest(
-//            "GET",
-//            ".opensearch-alerting-comments-history-*/_search",
-//            StringEntity(query.toString(), APPLICATION_JSON)
-//        )
-//
-//        val xcp = createParser(XContentType.JSON.xContent(), searchResponse.entity.content)
-//        val hits = xcp.map()["hits"]!! as Map<String, Map<String, Any>>
-//        val numberDocsFound = hits["total"]?.get("value")
-//        assertEquals("User was able to directly inspect alerting comments system index docs", 0, numberDocsFound)
-//    }
+    fun `test user cannot directly search comments system index`() {
+        createUserWithRoles(
+            userA,
+            listOf(ALERTING_FULL_ACCESS_ROLE),
+            listOf(),
+            false
+        )
+
+        val monitor = createRandomMonitor(refresh = true)
+        val alert = createAlert(randomAlert(monitor).copy(state = Alert.State.ACTIVE))
+        val alertId = alert.id
+        val commentContent = "test comment"
+
+        createAlertComment(alertId, commentContent, userAClient!!).id
+
+        val query = SearchSourceBuilder().query(QueryBuilders.matchAllQuery())
+        val searchResponse = userAClient!!.makeRequest(
+            "GET",
+            ".opensearch-alerting-comments-history-*/_search",
+            StringEntity(query.toString(), APPLICATION_JSON)
+        )
+
+        val xcp = createParser(XContentType.JSON.xContent(), searchResponse.entity.content)
+        val hits = xcp.map()["hits"]!! as Map<String, Map<String, Any>>
+        val numberDocsFound = hits["total"]?.get("value")
+        assertEquals("User was able to directly inspect alerting comments system index docs", 0, numberDocsFound)
+    }
 }