diff --git a/pkg/monitortestlibrary/allowedalerts/types.go b/pkg/monitortestlibrary/allowedalerts/types.go
index 88a8b8b70425..75fded773fac 100644
--- a/pkg/monitortestlibrary/allowedalerts/types.go
+++ b/pkg/monitortestlibrary/allowedalerts/types.go
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ var AllowedAlertNames = []string{
 	"Watchdog",
 	"AlertmanagerReceiversNotConfigured",
 	"PrometheusRemoteWriteDesiredShards",
-	"KubeJobFailingSRE", // https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-55635
+	"KubeJobFailingSRE",  // https://issues.redhat.com/browse/OCPBUGS-55635
+	"CreateMustGather.*", // https://issues.redhat.com/browse/SREP-4796
 
 	// indicates a problem in the external Telemeter service, presently very common, does not impact our ability to e2e test:
 	"TelemeterClientFailures",
diff --git a/pkg/monitortests/testframework/legacytestframeworkmonitortests/alerts.go b/pkg/monitortests/testframework/legacytestframeworkmonitortests/alerts.go
index 4ffa3af37dc6..d2e2cf50b6dc 100644
--- a/pkg/monitortests/testframework/legacytestframeworkmonitortests/alerts.go
+++ b/pkg/monitortests/testframework/legacytestframeworkmonitortests/alerts.go
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package legacytestframeworkmonitortests
 import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
+	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
@@ -239,7 +240,7 @@ func runBackstopTest(
 func isSkippedAlert(alertName string) bool {
 	// Some alerts we always skip over in CI:
 	for _, a := range allowedalerts.AllowedAlertNames {
-		if a == alertName {
+		if matched, _ := regexp.MatchString("^"+a+"$", alertName); matched {
 			return true
 		}
 	}