diff --git a/tokio/tests/rt_metrics.rs b/tokio/tests/rt_metrics.rs
index ec4856cb5c2..4dfed06fed4 100644
--- a/tokio/tests/rt_metrics.rs
+++ b/tokio/tests/rt_metrics.rs
@@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ fn worker_noop_count() {
 }
 
 #[test]
+#[ignore] // this test is flaky, see https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio/issues/6470
 fn worker_steal_count() {
     // This metric only applies to the multi-threaded runtime.
     //