diff --git a/sdk/eventhub/azure-eventhub/tests/livetest/asynctests/test_buffered_producer_async.py b/sdk/eventhub/azure-eventhub/tests/livetest/asynctests/test_buffered_producer_async.py
index 1cdfe0b62319..3937a686d0fb 100644
--- a/sdk/eventhub/azure-eventhub/tests/livetest/asynctests/test_buffered_producer_async.py
+++ b/sdk/eventhub/azure-eventhub/tests/livetest/asynctests/test_buffered_producer_async.py
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ async def on_error(events, pid, err):
         await producer.send_event(EventData('data'))
         await asyncio.sleep(5)
         assert not sent_events
-        await asyncio.sleep(10)
+        await asyncio.sleep(20)
         assert sum([len(sent_events[pid]) for pid in partitions]) == 1
 
     assert not on_error.err