diff --git a/.buildkite/hooks/pre-command b/.buildkite/hooks/pre-command
index f7be59739f3de..1c7acc9e5b549 100755
--- a/.buildkite/hooks/pre-command
+++ b/.buildkite/hooks/pre-command
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ function retry {
     return 0
 }
 
-export BUILD_MACHINE_TYPE="n2-standard-4"
+export BUILD_MACHINE_TYPE="n2-highcpu-16"
 
 # Secrets must be redacted
 # https://buildkite.com/docs/pipelines/managing-log-output#redacted-environment-variables
diff --git a/lib/ES/Repo.pm b/lib/ES/Repo.pm
index 7d81531dac816..443d0638ff1ac 100644
--- a/lib/ES/Repo.pm
+++ b/lib/ES/Repo.pm
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ sub _extract_from_ref {
     die "File <$tar> already exists" if -e $tar;
     run qw(git archive --format=tar -o), $tar, $ref, $path;
 
-    run qw(tar -x -C), $dest, '-f', $tar;
+    run qw(tar -xv -C), $dest, '-f', $tar;
     $tar->remove;
 }