diff --git a/pkg/planner/core/issuetest/BUILD.bazel b/pkg/planner/core/issuetest/BUILD.bazel
index 41e03b9c6d4e3..f8b7ae77aeb3c 100644
--- a/pkg/planner/core/issuetest/BUILD.bazel
+++ b/pkg/planner/core/issuetest/BUILD.bazel
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ go_test(
     data = glob(["testdata/**"]),
     flaky = True,
     race = "on",
+    shard_count = 3,
     deps = [
         "//pkg/parser",
         "//pkg/planner",