diff --git a/test/integration/api.bats b/test/integration/api.bats
index 02f6319100..618432dc48 100644
--- a/test/integration/api.bats
+++ b/test/integration/api.bats
@@ -190,8 +190,8 @@ function teardown() {
 	# start events, report real time events to TEMP_FILE
 	docker_swarm events > $TEMP_FILE &
 
-	# events: create container
-	run docker_swarm create --name test_container busybox sleep 100 
+	# events: create container on node-0
+	run docker_swarm create --name test_container -e constraint:node==node-0 busybox sleep 100 
 	[ "$status" -eq 0 ]
 	# events: start container
 	run docker_swarm start test_container
@@ -203,8 +203,12 @@ function teardown() {
 	# verify
 	run cat $TEMP_FILE
 	[ "$status" -eq 0 ]
+	[[ "${output}" == *"node:node-0"* ]]
 	[[ "${output}" == *"create"* ]]
 	[[ "${output}" == *"start"* ]]
+	
+	# after ok, remove the $TEMP_FILE
+	rm -f $TEMP_FILE
 }
 
 @test "docker exec" {