diff --git a/.gitlab/.perf-able-gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab/.perf-able-gitlab-ci.yml
index 0586c7947..93165d50b 100644
--- a/.gitlab/.perf-able-gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab/.perf-able-gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ stages:
 
 perf_able:
   stage: performance
+  timeout: 2h
   image: registry.gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cloud-deploy/aws-base:latest
   variables:
     PROFILE: "service-terraform"
diff --git a/qa/scripts/perf/able/ableTest.sh b/qa/scripts/perf/able/ableTest.sh
index f17ad6b21..d81ec2f51 100755
--- a/qa/scripts/perf/able/ableTest.sh
+++ b/qa/scripts/perf/able/ableTest.sh
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ fi
 echo "Running perf test"
 # leaving this here because K6 is timing out and need to work out why
 #ssh -A -i ~/.ssh/gitlab-featurebase-ci.pem -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" ec2-user@${INGESTNODE0} "/home/ec2-user/bin/k6 run -e DATANODE0=test.k6.io /data/highcardinalitygroupby.js" 
-ssh -A -i ~/.ssh/gitlab-featurebase-ci.pem -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" ec2-user@${INGESTNODE0} "curl ${DATANODE0}:10101/index/seg/query -X POST -o /data/response.json -d 'GroupBy(Rows(education_level), Rows(gender), Rows(political_party), Rows(domain))'" 
+ssh -A -i ~/.ssh/gitlab-featurebase-ci.pem -o "StrictHostKeyChecking no" ec2-user@${INGESTNODE0} "curl ${DATANODE0}:10101/index/seg/query -X POST -o /data/response.json -d 'GroupBy(Rows(education_level), Rows(gender), Rows(domain), aggregate=Sum(field=age))'" 
 ABLETESTRESULT=$?
 
 if (( $ABLETESTRESULT != 0 ))