diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/azuremonitor/module.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/azuremonitor/module.ts
index bf96a78c1b3..b723a0bd50c 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/azuremonitor/module.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/azuremonitor/module.ts
@@ -10,7 +10,11 @@ import { trackAzureMonitorDashboardLoaded } from './tracking';
 import { AzureMonitorQuery, AzureQueryType, ResultFormat } from './types/query';
 import { AzureMonitorDataSourceJsonData } from './types/types';
 
-initPluginTranslations(pluginJson.id);
+// don't load plugin translations in test environments
+// we don't use them anyway, and top-level await won't work currently in jest
+if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'test') {
+  await initPluginTranslations(pluginJson.id);
+}
 
 export const plugin = new DataSourcePlugin<Datasource, AzureMonitorQuery, AzureMonitorDataSourceJsonData>(Datasource)
   .setConfigEditor(ConfigEditor)
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/mssql/module.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/mssql/module.ts
index 7cf4eeaafe1..7ba2f9c512f 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/mssql/module.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/mssql/module.ts
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@ import { MssqlDatasource } from './datasource';
 import pluginJson from './plugin.json';
 import { MssqlOptions } from './types';
 
-initPluginTranslations(pluginJson.id, [loadSQLResources]);
+// don't load plugin translations in test environments
+// we don't use them anyway, and top-level await won't work currently in jest
+if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'test') {
+  await initPluginTranslations(pluginJson.id, [loadSQLResources]);
+}
 
 export const plugin = new DataSourcePlugin<MssqlDatasource, SQLQuery, MssqlOptions>(MssqlDatasource)
   .setQueryEditor(SqlQueryEditorLazy)