diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/VisualMetricQueryEditor.test.tsx b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/VisualMetricQueryEditor.test.tsx
index c31b43bca1e..9e2767f1210 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/VisualMetricQueryEditor.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/VisualMetricQueryEditor.test.tsx
@@ -295,14 +295,18 @@ describe('VisualMetricQueryEditor', () => {
     const defaultQuery = { ...query, ...defaultTimeSeriesList(datasource), filters: query.filters };
     const range = getDefaultTimeRange();
 
-    render(
-      <VisualMetricQueryEditor
-        {...defaultProps}
-        onChange={onChange}
-        datasource={datasource}
-        query={query}
-        range={range}
-      />
+    // TODO investigate why we need act
+    // see https://github.com/testing-library/react-testing-library/issues/1375
+    await act(async () =>
+      render(
+        <VisualMetricQueryEditor
+          {...defaultProps}
+          onChange={onChange}
+          datasource={datasource}
+          query={query}
+          range={range}
+        />
+      )
     );
     expect(document.body).toHaveTextContent('metric.test_label');
     expect(await screen.findByText('Delta')).toBeInTheDocument();
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/__snapshots__/VariableQueryEditor.test.tsx.snap b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/__snapshots__/VariableQueryEditor.test.tsx.snap
index 63b6a8cd1dd..73b5d392972 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/__snapshots__/VariableQueryEditor.test.tsx.snap
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/__snapshots__/VariableQueryEditor.test.tsx.snap
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ exports[`VariableQueryEditor renders correctly 1`] = `
               <div
                 class="css-8nwx1l-singleValue css-0"
               >
-                Loading...
+                Projects
               </div>
               <div
                 class="css-1eu65zc"