diff --git a/controllers/argocd/util.go b/controllers/argocd/util.go
index fb822f6ee..897af9a5d 100644
--- a/controllers/argocd/util.go
+++ b/controllers/argocd/util.go
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ func getArgoServerOperationProcessors(cr *argoproj.ArgoCD) int32 {
 // getArgoServerStatusProcessors will return the numeric Status Processors value for the ArgoCD Server.
 func getArgoServerStatusProcessors(cr *argoproj.ArgoCD) int32 {
 	sp := common.ArgoCDDefaultServerStatusProcessors
-	if cr.Spec.Controller.Processors.Status > sp {
+	if cr.Spec.Controller.Processors.Status > 0 {
 		sp = cr.Spec.Controller.Processors.Status
 	}
 	return sp
diff --git a/controllers/argocd/util_test.go b/controllers/argocd/util_test.go
index daeeb11aa..4360855ec 100644
--- a/controllers/argocd/util_test.go
+++ b/controllers/argocd/util_test.go
@@ -368,6 +368,48 @@ func TestGetArgoApplicationControllerCommand(t *testing.T) {
 				"text",
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			"configured status processors to zero",
+			[]argoCDOpt{controllerProcessors(0)},
+			[]string{
+				"argocd-application-controller",
+				"--operation-processors",
+				"10",
+				"--redis",
+				"argocd-redis.argocd.svc.cluster.local:6379",
+				"--repo-server",
+				"argocd-repo-server.argocd.svc.cluster.local:8081",
+				"--status-processors",
+				"20",
+				"--kubectl-parallelism-limit",
+				"10",
+				"--loglevel",
+				"info",
+				"--logformat",
+				"text",
+			},
+		},
+		{
+			"configured status processors to be between zero and default",
+			[]argoCDOpt{controllerProcessors(10)},
+			[]string{
+				"argocd-application-controller",
+				"--operation-processors",
+				"10",
+				"--redis",
+				"argocd-redis.argocd.svc.cluster.local:6379",
+				"--repo-server",
+				"argocd-repo-server.argocd.svc.cluster.local:8081",
+				"--status-processors",
+				"10",
+				"--kubectl-parallelism-limit",
+				"10",
+				"--loglevel",
+				"info",
+				"--logformat",
+				"text",
+			},
+		},
 		{
 			"configured operation processors",
 			[]argoCDOpt{operationProcessors(15)},