diff --git a/x-pack/test/stack_functional_integration/apps/ccs/ccs_discover.js b/x-pack/test/stack_functional_integration/apps/ccs/ccs_discover.js
index a22e4438c7dbdd..588ff9a6e9f928 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/stack_functional_integration/apps/ccs/ccs_discover.js
+++ b/x-pack/test/stack_functional_integration/apps/ccs/ccs_discover.js
@@ -5,16 +5,7 @@
  * 2.0.
  */
 
-import fs from 'fs';
-import { resolve } from 'path';
 import expect from '@kbn/expect';
-import { Client as EsClient } from '@elastic/elasticsearch';
-import { KbnClient } from '@kbn/test';
-import { EsArchiver } from '@kbn/es-archiver';
-import { CA_CERT_PATH, REPO_ROOT } from '@kbn/dev-utils';
-
-const INTEGRATION_TEST_ROOT = process.env.WORKSPACE || resolve(REPO_ROOT, '../integration-test');
-const ARCHIVE = resolve(INTEGRATION_TEST_ROOT, 'test/es_archives/metricbeat');
 
 export default ({ getService, getPageObjects }) => {
   describe('Cross cluster search test in discover', async () => {
@@ -212,151 +203,5 @@ export default ({ getService, getPageObjects }) => {
         expect(hitCount).to.be.lessThan(originalHitCount);
       });
     });
-
-    describe('Detection engine', async function () {
-      const supertest = getService('supertest');
-      const esSupertest = getService('esSupertest');
-      const config = getService('config');
-
-      const esClient = new EsClient({
-        ssl: {
-          ca: fs.readFileSync(CA_CERT_PATH, 'utf-8'),
-        },
-        nodes: [process.env.TEST_ES_URLDATA],
-        requestTimeout: config.get('timeouts.esRequestTimeout'),
-      });
-
-      const kbnClient = new KbnClient({
-        log,
-        url: process.env.TEST_KIBANA_URLDATA,
-        certificateAuthorities: config.get('servers.kibana.certificateAuthorities'),
-        uiSettingDefaults: kibanaServer.uiSettings,
-      });
-
-      const esArchiver = new EsArchiver({
-        log,
-        client: esClient,
-        kbnClient,
-      });
-
-      let signalsId;
-      let dataId;
-      let ruleId;
-
-      before('Prepare .siem-signal-*', async function () {
-        log.info('Create index');
-        // visit app/security so to create .siem-signals-* as side effect
-        await PageObjects.common.navigateToApp('security', { insertTimestamp: false });
-
-        log.info('Create index pattern');
-        signalsId = await supertest
-          .post('/api/index_patterns/index_pattern')
-          .set('kbn-xsrf', 'true')
-          .send({
-            index_pattern: {
-              title: '.siem-signals-*',
-            },
-            override: true,
-          })
-          .expect(200)
-          .then((res) => JSON.parse(res.text).index_pattern.id);
-        log.debug('id: ' + signalsId);
-      });
-
-      before('Prepare data:metricbeat-*', async function () {
-        log.info('Create index');
-        await esArchiver.load(ARCHIVE);
-
-        log.info('Create index pattern');
-        dataId = await supertest
-          .post('/api/index_patterns/index_pattern')
-          .set('kbn-xsrf', 'true')
-          .send({
-            index_pattern: {
-              title: 'data:metricbeat-*',
-            },
-            override: true,
-          })
-          .expect(200)
-          .then((res) => JSON.parse(res.text).index_pattern.id);
-        log.debug('id: ' + dataId);
-      });
-
-      before('Add detection rule', async function () {
-        ruleId = await supertest
-          .post('/api/detection_engine/rules')
-          .set('kbn-xsrf', 'true')
-          .send({
-            description: 'This is the description of the rule',
-            risk_score: 17,
-            severity: 'low',
-            interval: '10s',
-            name: 'CCS_Detection_test',
-            type: 'query',
-            from: 'now-1y',
-            index: ['data:metricbeat-*'],
-            query: '*:*',
-            language: 'kuery',
-            enabled: true,
-          })
-          .expect(200)
-          .then((res) => JSON.parse(res.text).id);
-        log.debug('id: ' + ruleId);
-      });
-
-      after('Clean up detection rule', async function () {
-        if (ruleId !== undefined) {
-          log.debug('id: ' + ruleId);
-          await supertest
-            .delete('/api/detection_engine/rules?id=' + ruleId)
-            .set('kbn-xsrf', 'true')
-            .expect(200);
-        }
-      });
-
-      after('Clean up data:metricbeat-*', async function () {
-        if (dataId !== undefined) {
-          log.info('Delete index pattern');
-          log.debug('id: ' + dataId);
-          await supertest
-            .delete('/api/index_patterns/index_pattern/' + dataId)
-            .set('kbn-xsrf', 'true')
-            .expect(200);
-        }
-
-        log.info('Delete index');
-        await esArchiver.unload(ARCHIVE);
-      });
-
-      after('Clean up .siem-signal-*', async function () {
-        if (signalsId !== undefined) {
-          log.info('Delete index pattern: .siem-signals-*');
-          log.debug('id: ' + signalsId);
-          await supertest
-            .delete('/api/index_patterns/index_pattern/' + signalsId)
-            .set('kbn-xsrf', 'true')
-            .expect(200);
-        }
-
-        log.info('Delete index alias: .siem-signals-default');
-        await esSupertest
-          .delete('/.siem-signals-default-000001/_alias/.siem-signals-default')
-          .expect(200);
-
-        log.info('Delete index: .siem-signals-default-000001');
-        await esSupertest.delete('/.siem-signals-default-000001').expect(200);
-      });
-
-      it('Should generate alerts based on remote events', async function () {
-        log.info('Check if any alert got to .siem-signals-*');
-        await PageObjects.common.navigateToApp('discover', { insertTimestamp: false });
-        await PageObjects.discover.selectIndexPattern('.siem-signals-*');
-        await retry.tryForTime(30000, async () => {
-          const hitCount = await PageObjects.discover.getHitCount();
-          log.debug('### hit count = ' + hitCount);
-          expect(hitCount).to.be('100');
-        });
-      });
-    });
   });
 };