diff --git a/x-pack/test/alerting_api_integration/observability/custom_threshold_rule/documents_count_fired.ts b/x-pack/test/alerting_api_integration/observability/custom_threshold_rule/documents_count_fired.ts
index 9025cb80ff47d5..133ced9b239d11 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/alerting_api_integration/observability/custom_threshold_rule/documents_count_fired.ts
+++ b/x-pack/test/alerting_api_integration/observability/custom_threshold_rule/documents_count_fired.ts
@@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ export default function ({ getService }: FtrProviderContext) {
       await cleanup({ client: esClient, config: dataForgeConfig, logger });
     });
 
-    describe('Rule creation', () => {
+    // FLAKY: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/175407
+    describe.skip('Rule creation', () => {
       it('creates rule successfully', async () => {
         actionId = await createIndexConnector({
           supertest,