diff --git a/helm/trivy/templates/statefulset.yaml b/helm/trivy/templates/statefulset.yaml
index 4a931d2ac0b0..fef41a47da3c 100644
--- a/helm/trivy/templates/statefulset.yaml
+++ b/helm/trivy/templates/statefulset.yaml
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ spec:
               scheme: HTTP
               path: /healthz
               port: trivy-http
-            initialDelaySeconds: 5
+            initialDelaySeconds: {{ default 5 .Values.livenessProbe.initialDelaySeconds }}
             periodSeconds: 10
             successThreshold: 1
             failureThreshold: 10
diff --git a/helm/trivy/values.yaml b/helm/trivy/values.yaml
index a969f10b7899..73d780d6a0b1 100644
--- a/helm/trivy/values.yaml
+++ b/helm/trivy/values.yaml
@@ -56,6 +56,11 @@ tolerations: []
 ## Ref: https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/annotations/
 podAnnotations: {}
 
+# Allow Trivy to download the database before being killed. In some cases the conection to gsoci can be slow and take longer than the default
+# Maybe we can remove this once we have Zot
+livenessProbe:
+  initialDelaySeconds: 300
+
 trivy:
   # debugMode the flag to enable Trivy debug mode
   debugMode: false