diff --git a/x-pack/test/functional/apps/ml/anomaly_detection_result_views/forecasts.ts b/x-pack/test/functional/apps/ml/anomaly_detection_result_views/forecasts.ts
index 93ec331230a8a..63f72381d0185 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/functional/apps/ml/anomaly_detection_result_views/forecasts.ts
+++ b/x-pack/test/functional/apps/ml/anomaly_detection_result_views/forecasts.ts
@@ -42,7 +42,8 @@ export default function ({ getService }: FtrProviderContext) {
   describe('forecasts', function () {
     this.tags(['ml']);
 
-    describe('with single metric job', function () {
+    // FLAKY: https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/164381
+    describe.skip('with single metric job', function () {
       before(async () => {
         await esArchiver.loadIfNeeded('x-pack/test/functional/es_archives/ml/farequote');
         await ml.testResources.createIndexPatternIfNeeded('ft_farequote', '@timestamp');