diff --git a/public/components/datasources/components/manage/accelerations/create_accelerations_flyout/create/create_acceleration_button.tsx b/public/components/datasources/components/manage/accelerations/create_accelerations_flyout/create/create_acceleration_button.tsx
index 4067ff258..cc89efaaf 100644
--- a/public/components/datasources/components/manage/accelerations/create_accelerations_flyout/create/create_acceleration_button.tsx
+++ b/public/components/datasources/components/manage/accelerations/create_accelerations_flyout/create/create_acceleration_button.tsx
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ export const CreateAccelerationButton = ({
 
     const requestPayload: DirectQueryRequest = {
       lang: 'sql',
-      query: accelerationQueryBuilder(accelerationFormData),
+      query: accelerationQueryBuilder(accelerationFormData).replaceAll(/\s+/g, ' '),
       datasource: accelerationFormData.dataSource,
     };
 
diff --git a/public/components/datasources/components/manage/accelerations/create_accelerations_flyout/visual_editors/query_builder.tsx b/public/components/datasources/components/manage/accelerations/create_accelerations_flyout/visual_editors/query_builder.tsx
index b20626795..ee59f470f 100644
--- a/public/components/datasources/components/manage/accelerations/create_accelerations_flyout/visual_editors/query_builder.tsx
+++ b/public/components/datasources/components/manage/accelerations/create_accelerations_flyout/visual_editors/query_builder.tsx
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ export const buildIndexOptions = (accelerationformData: CreateAccelerationForm)
 
   // Add index settings option
   indexOptions.push(
-    `index_settings = '{"number_of_shards":${primaryShardsCount},"number_of_replicas":${replicaShardsCount}}'`
+    `index_settings = '{\\"number_of_shards\\":${primaryShardsCount},\\"number_of_replicas\\":${replicaShardsCount}}'`
   );
 
   // Add auto refresh option