diff --git a/src/monitor/Makefile b/src/monitor/Makefile
index 5d7a491c4..7e0022fd3 100644
--- a/src/monitor/Makefile
+++ b/src/monitor/Makefile
@@ -57,6 +57,20 @@ override CFLAGS := $(DEFAULT_CFLAGS) $(CFLAGS)
 
 include $(PGXS)
 
+# See regress_schedule for why a custom schedule is needed instead of
+# PGXS's default behavior (the whole $(REGRESS) list as one parallel group).
+REGRESS_OPTS += --schedule=$(SRC_DIR)regress_schedule
+
+# Override PGXS's installcheck: with --schedule in REGRESS_OPTS, pg_regress
+# runs the schedule's groups first and then re-runs every bare $(REGRESS)
+# name again, one at a time, as extra tests appended after the schedule
+# (pg_regress.c's extra_tests/run_single_test()). So $(REGRESS) must not
+# also be passed on the command line here -- the schedule file is the only
+# source of truth for which tests run and how they're grouped.
+installcheck: submake $(REGRESS_PREP)
+	$(pg_regress_installcheck) $(REGRESS_OPTS)
+	$(pg_isolation_regress_installcheck) $(ISOLATION_OPTS) $(ISOLATION)
+
 ifdef USE_SECURITY_FLAGS
 # Flags taken from: https://liquid.microsoft.com/Web/Object/Read/ms.security/Requirements/Microsoft.Security.SystemsADM.10203#guide
 SECURITY_BITCODE_CFLAGS=-fsanitize=safe-stack -fstack-protector-strong -flto -fPIC -Wformat -Wformat-security -Werror=format-security
diff --git a/src/monitor/regress_schedule b/src/monitor/regress_schedule
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1f9952ffe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/monitor/regress_schedule
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# Regression test schedule for the pgautofailover monitor extension.
+#
+# pg_regress runs an unscheduled (bare) REGRESS list as a single parallel
+# group. None of these tests were written to tolerate that: they all
+# register nodes via pgautofailover.register_node() against the one
+# pgautofailover.node table (and its one shared nodeid sequence) in the
+# whole contrib_regression database, and their expected/*.out files
+# hardcode small literal node ids (e.g. "assigned_node_id | 2") on the
+# assumption that they have that sequence -- and the table -- to
+# themselves. Running any two of them concurrently lets one test's inserts
+# bump the other's node ids and leak extra rows into the other's
+# "select * from pgautofailover.node" style queries. dummy_update.sql and
+# upgrade.sql additionally run their own CREATE/ALTER/DROP EXTENSION
+# pgautofailover against the single shared extension object, which is its
+# own, separate way for two tests to corrupt each other if run at once.
+#
+# Net effect: every test here needs the whole database to itself, in the
+# exact dependency order below. This is why each gets its own "test:"
+# line (pg_regress runs schedule lines strictly one after another, so a
+# solo line is a full serial step). Observed in CI as sporadic
+# "not ok - upgrade" / "not ok - lock_and_fetch_migration" / node-id
+# mismatches in other tests, depending on which pair the scheduler
+# happened to interleave that run.
+#
+# create_extension must run first: every other test needs the extension
+# to exist. dummy_update, drop_extension, and upgrade must run last, in
+# this exact order: dummy_update leaves the extension at a fake "dummy"
+# version, drop_extension removes it outright, and upgrade does its own
+# from-scratch CREATE EXTENSION '1.0' -> ALTER EXTENSION UPDATE TO ... ->
+# DROP EXTENSION cycle that assumes it owns the extension's version state
+# exclusively.
+
+test: create_extension
+test: monitor
+test: workers
+test: node_active_protocol
+test: guard_data_loss
+test: fast_forward
+test: drop_node
+test: stale_primary_report
+test: lock_and_fetch_migration
+test: dummy_update
+test: drop_extension
+test: upgrade