diff --git a/renovate.json b/renovate.json
index c668670724..44efb69b97 100644
--- a/renovate.json
+++ b/renovate.json
@@ -53,6 +53,13 @@
       ],
       "extends": ["schedule:quarterly"]
     },
+    {
+      "description": "elasticsearch CI images are published about once a month and do not use semantic versioning or short tags",
+      "matchDepNames": [
+        "elasticsearch",
+      ],
+      "extends": ["schedule:quarterly"]
+    },
     {
       "description": "Group golang packages",
       "matchDepNames": [