diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/ml/common/types/data_frame_analytics.ts b/x-pack/plugins/ml/common/types/data_frame_analytics.ts
index 5d0ecf96fb6b5..cbf2acd152476 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/ml/common/types/data_frame_analytics.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/ml/common/types/data_frame_analytics.ts
@@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ export type DataFrameAnalyticsId = string;
 export interface OutlierAnalysis {
   [key: string]: {};
 
-  outlier_detection: {};
+  outlier_detection: {
+    compute_feature_influence?: boolean;
+  };
 }
 
 interface Regression {
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/ml/common/util/analytics_utils.ts b/x-pack/plugins/ml/common/util/analytics_utils.ts
index d231ed4344389..94797efdfcfad 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/ml/common/util/analytics_utils.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/ml/common/util/analytics_utils.ts
@@ -13,16 +13,19 @@ import {
 import { ANALYSIS_CONFIG_TYPE } from '../../common/constants/data_frame_analytics';
 
 export const isOutlierAnalysis = (arg: any): arg is OutlierAnalysis => {
+  if (typeof arg !== 'object' || arg === null) return false;
   const keys = Object.keys(arg);
   return keys.length === 1 && keys[0] === ANALYSIS_CONFIG_TYPE.OUTLIER_DETECTION;
 };
 
 export const isRegressionAnalysis = (arg: any): arg is RegressionAnalysis => {
+  if (typeof arg !== 'object' || arg === null) return false;
   const keys = Object.keys(arg);
   return keys.length === 1 && keys[0] === ANALYSIS_CONFIG_TYPE.REGRESSION;
 };
 
 export const isClassificationAnalysis = (arg: any): arg is ClassificationAnalysis => {
+  if (typeof arg !== 'object' || arg === null) return false;
   const keys = Object.keys(arg);
   return keys.length === 1 && keys[0] === ANALYSIS_CONFIG_TYPE.CLASSIFICATION;
 };
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/ml/public/application/data_frame_analytics/pages/analytics_exploration/components/outlier_exploration/outlier_exploration.tsx b/x-pack/plugins/ml/public/application/data_frame_analytics/pages/analytics_exploration/components/outlier_exploration/outlier_exploration.tsx
index fa711316df003..734b5170d26a1 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/ml/public/application/data_frame_analytics/pages/analytics_exploration/components/outlier_exploration/outlier_exploration.tsx
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/ml/public/application/data_frame_analytics/pages/analytics_exploration/components/outlier_exploration/outlier_exploration.tsx
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
 
 import React, { useState, FC } from 'react';
 
-import { EuiSpacer, EuiText } from '@elastic/eui';
+import { EuiCallOut, EuiSpacer, EuiText } from '@elastic/eui';
+
+import { i18n } from '@kbn/i18n';
 
 import {
   useColorRange,
@@ -15,7 +17,8 @@ import {
 } from '../../../../../components/color_range_legend';
 import { SavedSearchQuery } from '../../../../../contexts/ml';
 
-import { defaultSearchQuery, useResultsViewConfig } from '../../../../common';
+import { defaultSearchQuery, isOutlierAnalysis, useResultsViewConfig } from '../../../../common';
+import { FEATURE_INFLUENCE } from '../../../../common/constants';
 
 import { ExpandableSectionAnalytics, ExpandableSectionResults } from '../expandable_section';
 import { ExplorationQueryBar } from '../exploration_query_bar';
@@ -39,6 +42,24 @@ export const OutlierExploration: FC<ExplorationProps> = React.memo(({ jobId }) =
   const featureCount = getFeatureCount(jobConfig?.dest?.results_field || '', tableItems);
   const colorRange = useColorRange(COLOR_RANGE.BLUE, COLOR_RANGE_SCALE.INFLUENCER, featureCount);
 
+  // Show the color range only if feature influence is enabled and there's more than 0 features.
+  const showColorRange =
+    featureCount > 0 &&
+    isOutlierAnalysis(jobConfig?.analysis) &&
+    jobConfig?.analysis.outlier_detection.compute_feature_influence === true;
+
+  const resultsField = jobConfig?.dest.results_field ?? '';
+
+  // Identify if the results index has a legacy feature influence format.
+  // If feature influence was enabled for the legacy job we'll show a callout
+  // with some additional information for a workaround.
+  const showLegacyFeatureInfluenceFormatCallout =
+    isOutlierAnalysis(jobConfig?.analysis) &&
+    jobConfig?.analysis.outlier_detection.compute_feature_influence === true &&
+    columnsWithCharts.findIndex(
+      (d) => d.id === `${resultsField}.${FEATURE_INFLUENCE}.feature_name`
+    ) === -1;
+
   return (
     <>
       {typeof jobConfig?.description !== 'undefined' && (
@@ -55,8 +76,26 @@ export const OutlierExploration: FC<ExplorationProps> = React.memo(({ jobId }) =
           </>
         )}
       {typeof jobConfig?.id === 'string' && <ExpandableSectionAnalytics jobId={jobConfig?.id} />}
+      {showLegacyFeatureInfluenceFormatCallout && (
+        <>
+          <EuiCallOut
+            size="s"
+            title={i18n.translate(
+              'xpack.ml.dataframe.analytics.outlierExploration.legacyFeatureInfluenceFormatCalloutTitle',
+              {
+                defaultMessage:
+                  'Color coded table cells based on feature influence are not available, because this results index uses an unsupported legacy format. Please clone an rerun the job to enable support for color coding.',
+              }
+            )}
+            iconType="pin"
+          />
+          <EuiSpacer size="m" />
+        </>
+      )}
       <ExpandableSectionResults
-        colorRange={featureCount > 0 ? colorRange : undefined}
+        colorRange={
+          showColorRange && !showLegacyFeatureInfluenceFormatCallout ? colorRange : undefined
+        }
         indexData={outlierData}
         indexPattern={indexPattern}
         jobConfig={jobConfig}