diff --git a/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/entity_manager/search.ts b/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/entity_manager/search.ts
index a20364c7256e4..f164a309f0313 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/entity_manager/search.ts
+++ b/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/entity_manager/search.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,8 @@ export default function ({ getService }: FtrProviderContext) {
   const esClient = getService('es');
   const supertest = getService('supertest');
 
-  describe('_search API', () => {
+  // Failing: See https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/203982
+  describe.skip('_search API', () => {
     let cleanup: Function[] = [];
 
     before(() => clearEntityDefinitions(esClient));