diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 01c90b87fe6b..ab1492530c26 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -12,9 +12,14 @@ benchmark/dist
 **/package
 .sandbox
 packages/cli/generators/datasource/connectors.json
-docs/site/readmes
-docs/apidocs/reports-temp
-docs/apidocs/models
+packages/tsdocs/fixtures/monorepo/docs
+/docs/site/readmes
+/docs/apidocs/reports-temp
+/docs/apidocs/models
+
+# TBD: Exclude api reports from git for now
+/docs/apidocs/reports
+/docs/site/apidocs
 
 # Exclude all files under sandbox except README.md and example
 /sandbox/*
diff --git a/.prettierignore b/.prettierignore
index 8ecc31b576f9..8c7cb3809a3b 100644
--- a/.prettierignore
+++ b/.prettierignore
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 /docs/apidocs
 /docs/site/apidocs
 packages/cli/generators/*/templates
-packages/tsdocs/fixtures
+packages/tsdocs/fixtures/monorepo/docs
 **/.sandbox
 packages/*/dist
 examples/*/dist
diff --git a/docs/package.json b/docs/package.json
index 32d787a107b2..f05032bc71e8 100644
--- a/docs/package.json
+++ b/docs/package.json
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
   "scripts": {
     "build:apidocs": "lb-apidocs --html-file=index.html",
     "prepack": "node ./bin/copy-readmes",
-    "clean": "lb-clean loopback-docs*.tgz package api-docs site/readmes"
+    "clean": "lb-clean loopback-docs*.tgz package api-docs apidocs site/readmes site/apidocs"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "@loopback/build": "^1.5.4"
diff --git a/packages/tsdocs/.gitignore b/packages/tsdocs/.gitignore
deleted file mode 100644
index 00d5c5d6e1b7..000000000000
--- a/packages/tsdocs/.gitignore
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-/fixtures/monorepo/docs
-
diff --git a/packages/tsdocs/bin/extract-apis.js b/packages/tsdocs/bin/extract-apis.js
index ec8e6833e352..878c603611f7 100644
--- a/packages/tsdocs/bin/extract-apis.js
+++ b/packages/tsdocs/bin/extract-apis.js
@@ -8,11 +8,17 @@
  * Run api-extractor against the monorepo
  */
 const runExtractorForMonorepo = require('..').runExtractorForMonorepo;
+
 const silent = process.argv.includes('--silent');
 const dryRun = process.argv.includes('--dry-run');
 
+/**
+ * The option to control if reports are generated by api-extractor
+ */
+const apiReportEnabled = process.argv.includes('--report');
+
 async function main() {
-  await runExtractorForMonorepo({silent, dryRun});
+  await runExtractorForMonorepo({silent, dryRun, apiReportEnabled});
 }
 
 main();
diff --git a/packages/tsdocs/src/__tests__/acceptance/tsdocs.acceptance.ts b/packages/tsdocs/src/__tests__/acceptance/tsdocs.acceptance.ts
index 80bd1163658b..a47238072a97 100644
--- a/packages/tsdocs/src/__tests__/acceptance/tsdocs.acceptance.ts
+++ b/packages/tsdocs/src/__tests__/acceptance/tsdocs.acceptance.ts
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ describe('tsdocs', function() {
       rootDir: MONOREPO_ROOT,
       silent: true,
       apiDocsGenerationPath: 'docs/apidocs',
+      apiReportEnabled: true,
     });
 
     const dirs = await fs.readdir(APIDOCS_ROOT);
diff --git a/packages/tsdocs/src/helper.ts b/packages/tsdocs/src/helper.ts
index 884c0e037e89..4c9ce44c1aed 100644
--- a/packages/tsdocs/src/helper.ts
+++ b/packages/tsdocs/src/helper.ts
@@ -161,6 +161,10 @@ export interface ExtractorOptions extends ApiDocsOptions {
    * mainEntryPointFilePath
    */
   mainEntryPointFilePath?: string;
+  /**
+   * A flag to control if `apiReport` should be enabled
+   */
+  apiReportEnabled?: boolean;
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/packages/tsdocs/src/monorepo-api-extractor.ts b/packages/tsdocs/src/monorepo-api-extractor.ts
index 1d6894a7e0e7..28a0fd8fe466 100644
--- a/packages/tsdocs/src/monorepo-api-extractor.ts
+++ b/packages/tsdocs/src/monorepo-api-extractor.ts
@@ -89,8 +89,12 @@ function setupApiDocsDirs(lernaRootDir: string, options: ExtractorOptions) {
   /* istanbul ignore if  */
   if (options.dryRun) return;
   const apiDocsExtractionPath = options.apiDocsExtractionPath!;
-  fs.ensureDirSync(path.join(lernaRootDir, `${apiDocsExtractionPath}/reports`));
+
   fs.emptyDirSync(path.join(lernaRootDir, `${apiDocsExtractionPath}/models`));
+
+  if (!options.apiReportEnabled) return;
+
+  fs.ensureDirSync(path.join(lernaRootDir, `${apiDocsExtractionPath}/reports`));
   fs.emptyDirSync(
     path.join(lernaRootDir, `${apiDocsExtractionPath}/reports-temp`),
   );
@@ -112,7 +116,7 @@ function createRawExtractorConfig(
     projectFolder: pkg.location,
     mainEntryPointFilePath: entryPoint,
     apiReport: {
-      enabled: true,
+      enabled: !!options.apiReportEnabled,
       reportFolder: path.join(pkg.rootPath, `${apiDocsExtractionPath}/reports`),
       reportTempFolder: path.join(
         pkg.rootPath,