diff --git a/test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/locking/TestRecursiveMonitorChurn.java b/test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/locking/TestRecursiveMonitorChurn.java
index 19dd90015bf..806f32aad88 100644
--- a/test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/locking/TestRecursiveMonitorChurn.java
+++ b/test/hotspot/jtreg/runtime/locking/TestRecursiveMonitorChurn.java
@@ -70,6 +70,18 @@ public class TestRecursiveMonitorChurn {
         if (pre_monitor_count != post_monitor_count) {
             final long monitor_count_change = post_monitor_count - pre_monitor_count;
             System.out.println("Unexpected change in monitor count: " + monitor_count_change);
+
+            // Intermittent deflation and inflation may occur due to running the test
+            // with stress flags (like DeoptimizeALot) or with added instrumentation
+            // which runs in the same VM.
+            // An arbitrary fuzzy max difference of 10 (= 0.01% of COUNT) is chosen to
+            // allow for these occurrences to be skipped while still catching regressions.
+            final long fuzzy_max_difference = 10;
+            if (Math.abs(monitor_count_change) < fuzzy_max_difference) {
+                final String type = monitor_count_change < 0 ? "deflation" : "inflation";
+                throw new SkippedException("Intermittent " + type + " detected. Invalid test.");
+            }
+
             if (monitor_count_change < 0) {
                 throw new RuntimeException("Unexpected Deflation");
             }