diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 90ff744396..63e06e26bf 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ commands =
     # otherwise the HTML report will only show partial results
     coverage html -d cover
     coverage xml -o cover/coverage.xml
-    coverage report --fail-under=80 --skip-covered
+    coverage report --fail-under=90 --skip-covered
 
 [testenv:functional]
 setenv = OS_TEST_PATH={toxinidir}/octavia/tests/functional