diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/server/routes/api/simulate.ts b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/server/routes/api/simulate.ts
index 78c29d061fe5a..ca5fc78d118fd 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/server/routes/api/simulate.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/server/routes/api/simulate.ts
@@ -33,9 +33,8 @@ export const registerSimulateRoute = ({
     },
     license.guardApiRoute(async (ctx, req, res) => {
       const { callAsCurrentUser } = ctx.core.elasticsearch.dataClient;
-      const reqBody = req.body;
 
-      const { pipeline, documents, verbose } = reqBody;
+      const { pipeline, documents, verbose } = req.body;
 
       try {
         const response = await callAsCurrentUser('ingest.simulate', {
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/server/routes/api/update.ts b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/server/routes/api/update.ts
index 27a3c9fb97ef8..dd9d818d0ead7 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/server/routes/api/update.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/ingest_pipelines/server/routes/api/update.ts
@@ -36,9 +36,8 @@ export const registerUpdateRoute = ({
     license.guardApiRoute(async (ctx, req, res) => {
       const { callAsCurrentUser } = ctx.core.elasticsearch.dataClient;
       const { name } = req.params;
-      const pipeline = req.body as Pipeline;
 
-      const { description, processors, version, on_failure } = pipeline;
+      const { description, processors, version, on_failure } = req.body;
 
       try {
         // Verify pipeline exists; ES will throw 404 if it doesn't