diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/application/app.tsx b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/application/app.tsx
index c790f10725716..085e395f2ebf7 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/application/app.tsx
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/application/app.tsx
@@ -13,8 +13,7 @@ import 'ui/autoload/all';
 
 // needed to make syntax highlighting work in ace editors
 import 'ace';
-
-import { AppMountContext, AppMountParameters } from 'kibana/public';
+import { AppMountParameters, CoreStart } from 'kibana/public';
 import {
   IndexPatternsContract,
   Plugin as DataPlugin,
@@ -30,24 +29,28 @@ export interface MlDependencies extends AppMountParameters {
 }
 
 interface AppProps {
-  context: AppMountContext;
+  coreStart: CoreStart;
   indexPatterns: IndexPatternsContract;
 }
 
-const App: FC<AppProps> = ({ context, indexPatterns }) => {
-  const config = (context.core.uiSettings as never) as KibanaConfigTypeFix; // TODO - make this UiSettingsClientContract, get rid of KibanaConfigTypeFix
+const App: FC<AppProps> = ({ coreStart, indexPatterns }) => {
+  const config = (coreStart.uiSettings as never) as KibanaConfigTypeFix; // TODO - make this UiSettingsClientContract, get rid of KibanaConfigTypeFix
 
   return (
     <MlRouter
       config={config}
-      setBreadcrumbs={context.core.chrome.setBreadcrumbs}
+      setBreadcrumbs={coreStart.chrome.setBreadcrumbs}
       indexPatterns={indexPatterns}
     />
   );
 };
 
-export const renderApp = (context: AppMountContext, { element, indexPatterns }: MlDependencies) => {
-  ReactDOM.render(<App context={context} indexPatterns={indexPatterns} />, element);
+export const renderApp = (
+  coreStart: CoreStart,
+  depsStart: object,
+  { element, indexPatterns }: MlDependencies
+) => {
+  ReactDOM.render(<App coreStart={coreStart} indexPatterns={indexPatterns} />, element);
 
   return () => ReactDOM.unmountComponentAtNode(element);
 };
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/plugin.ts b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/plugin.ts
index 2a80b18446046..f68d1ffe88216 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/plugin.ts
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/plugin.ts
@@ -11,21 +11,15 @@ export interface MlSetupDependencies {
   npData: ReturnType<DataPlugin['start']>;
 }
 
-export interface MlStartDependencies {
-  __LEGACY: {
-    Storage: any;
-    xpackInfo: any;
-  };
-}
-
 export class MlPlugin implements Plugin<MlPluginSetup, MlPluginStart> {
   setup(core: CoreSetup, { npData }: MlSetupDependencies) {
     core.application.register({
       id: 'ml',
       title: 'Machine learning',
       async mount(context, params) {
+        const [coreStart, depsStart] = await core.getStartServices();
         const { renderApp } = await import('./application/app');
-        return renderApp(context, {
+        return renderApp(coreStart, depsStart, {
           ...params,
           indexPatterns: npData.indexPatterns,
           npData,