diff --git a/x-pack/test/functional/apps/machine_learning/anomaly_detection/date_nanos_job.ts b/x-pack/test/functional/apps/machine_learning/anomaly_detection/date_nanos_job.ts
index 880a268bba794d..2a9824f46778da 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/functional/apps/machine_learning/anomaly_detection/date_nanos_job.ts
+++ b/x-pack/test/functional/apps/machine_learning/anomaly_detection/date_nanos_job.ts
@@ -165,8 +165,7 @@ export default function({ getService }: FtrProviderContext) {
     },
   ];
 
-  // FLAKY: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/59419
-  describe.skip('job on data set with date_nanos time field', function() {
+  describe('job on data set with date_nanos time field', function() {
     this.tags(['smoke', 'mlqa']);
     before(async () => {
       await esArchiver.load('ml/event_rate_nanos');
diff --git a/x-pack/test/functional/services/machine_learning/job_wizard_common.ts b/x-pack/test/functional/services/machine_learning/job_wizard_common.ts
index 38e6694669c1a7..70d576a3d847b7 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/functional/services/machine_learning/job_wizard_common.ts
+++ b/x-pack/test/functional/services/machine_learning/job_wizard_common.ts
@@ -280,11 +280,13 @@ export function MachineLearningJobWizardCommonProvider(
           withAdvancedSection: sectionOptions.withAdvancedSection,
         })) === false
       ) {
-        await testSubjects.clickWhenNotDisabled(subj);
+        await retry.tryForTime(5 * 1000, async () => {
+          await testSubjects.clickWhenNotDisabled(subj);
+          await this.assertDedicatedIndexSwitchCheckedState(true, {
+            withAdvancedSection: sectionOptions.withAdvancedSection,
+          });
+        });
       }
-      await this.assertDedicatedIndexSwitchCheckedState(true, {
-        withAdvancedSection: sectionOptions.withAdvancedSection,
-      });
     },
 
     async assertModelMemoryLimitInputExists(