diff --git a/public/components/app.tsx b/public/components/app.tsx
index 56356183f..625c4cfc2 100644
--- a/public/components/app.tsx
+++ b/public/components/app.tsx
@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ interface ObservabilityAppDeps {
   pplService: any;
   dslService: any;
   savedObjects: any;
-  config: PublicConfig;
   timestampUtils: any;
   queryManager: QueryManager;
   startPage: string;
@@ -60,7 +59,6 @@ export const App = ({
   pplService,
   dslService,
   savedObjects,
-  config,
   timestampUtils,
   queryManager,
   startPage,
@@ -94,7 +92,6 @@ export const App = ({
             pplService={pplService}
             dslService={dslService}
             savedObjects={savedObjects}
-            config={config}
             timestampUtils={timestampUtils}
             queryManager={queryManager}
             parentBreadcrumb={parentBreadcrumb}
diff --git a/public/components/index.tsx b/public/components/index.tsx
index 5f5afcb80..b1ebf1211 100644
--- a/public/components/index.tsx
+++ b/public/components/index.tsx
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ import { AppMountParameters, CoreStart } from '../../../../src/core/public';
 import { DataSourceManagementPluginSetup } from '../../../../src/plugins/data_source_management/public';
 import { AppPluginStartDependencies } from '../types';
 import { App } from './app';
-import { PublicConfig } from '../plugin';
 
 export const Observability = (
   CoreStartProp: CoreStart,
@@ -24,8 +23,7 @@ export const Observability = (
   startPage: string,
   dataSourcePluggables,
   dataSourceManagement: DataSourceManagementPluginSetup,
-  savedObjectsMDSClient: CoreStart['savedObjects'],
-  config: PublicConfig
+  savedObjectsMDSClient: CoreStart['savedObjects']
 ) => {
   const { setHeaderActionMenu } = AppMountParametersProp;
   const { dataSource } = DepsStart;
@@ -36,7 +34,6 @@ export const Observability = (
       pplService={pplService}
       dslService={dslService}
       savedObjects={savedObjects}
-      config={config}
       timestampUtils={timestampUtils}
       queryManager={queryManager}
       startPage={startPage}
diff --git a/public/components/trace_analytics/components/traces/trace_view.tsx b/public/components/trace_analytics/components/traces/trace_view.tsx
index 6ef75ce7d..9d9f6b0b1 100644
--- a/public/components/trace_analytics/components/traces/trace_view.tsx
+++ b/public/components/trace_analytics/components/traces/trace_view.tsx
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ interface TraceViewProps extends TraceAnalyticsCoreDeps {
   dataSourceMDSId: DataSourceOption[];
   dataSourceManagement: DataSourceManagementPluginSetup;
   setActionMenu: (menuMount: MountPoint | undefined) => void;
-  tenant?: string;
+  tenant?: string | undefined;
 }
 
 export function TraceView(props: TraceViewProps) {
diff --git a/public/components/trace_analytics/home.tsx b/public/components/trace_analytics/home.tsx
index 1d17a6e0a..330c4f866 100644
--- a/public/components/trace_analytics/home.tsx
+++ b/public/components/trace_analytics/home.tsx
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ import {
   DataSourceSelectableConfig,
 } from '../../../../../src/plugins/data_source_management/public';
 import { DataSourceOption } from '../../../../../src/plugins/data_source_management/public/components/data_source_menu/types';
+import { coreRefs } from '../../framework/core_refs';
 import { FilterType } from './components/common/filters/filters';
+import { loadTenantInfo } from './components/common/indices';
 import { SearchBarProps } from './components/common/search_bar';
 import { ServiceView, Services } from './components/services';
 import { TraceView, Traces } from './components/traces';
@@ -29,8 +31,6 @@ import {
   handleJaegerIndicesExistRequest,
 } from './requests/request_handler';
 import { TraceSideBar } from './trace_side_nav';
-import { loadTenantInfo } from './components/common/indices';
-import { PublicConfig } from '../../plugin';
 
 export interface TraceAnalyticsCoreDeps {
   parentBreadcrumb: ChromeBreadcrumb;
@@ -43,9 +43,7 @@ export interface TraceAnalyticsCoreDeps {
   savedObjectsMDSClient: SavedObjectsStart;
 }
 
-interface HomeProps extends RouteComponentProps, TraceAnalyticsCoreDeps {
-  config: PublicConfig;
-}
+interface HomeProps extends RouteComponentProps, TraceAnalyticsCoreDeps {}
 
 export type TraceAnalyticsMode = 'jaeger' | 'data_prepper';
 
@@ -108,7 +106,7 @@ export const Home = (props: HomeProps) => {
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (!tenantLoaded)
-      loadTenantInfo(props.http, props.config.multitenancy.enabled).then((tenant) => {
+      loadTenantInfo(props.http, coreRefs.traceMultitenancyEnabled!).then((tenant) => {
         setTenantLoaded(true);
         setTenantName(tenant);
         handleDataPrepperIndicesExistRequest(
@@ -119,7 +117,7 @@ export const Home = (props: HomeProps) => {
         );
         handleJaegerIndicesExistRequest(props.http, setJaegerIndicesExist, tenant);
       });
-  }, [props.config.multitenancy.enabled, tenantLoaded, dataSourceMDSId]);
+  }, [coreRefs.traceMultitenancyEnabled!, tenantLoaded, dataSourceMDSId]);
 
   const modes = [
     { id: 'jaeger', title: 'Jaeger', 'data-test-subj': 'jaeger-mode' },
diff --git a/public/components/trace_analytics/requests/request_handler.ts b/public/components/trace_analytics/requests/request_handler.ts
index ca19d7f14..41aff3db0 100644
--- a/public/components/trace_analytics/requests/request_handler.ts
+++ b/public/components/trace_analytics/requests/request_handler.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
 
-import { getTenantIndexName } from '../../../../common/utils/tenant_index_name';
 import { CoreStart } from '../../../../../../src/core/public';
 import {
   DATA_PREPPER_INDEX_NAME,
@@ -12,6 +11,7 @@ import {
   TRACE_ANALYTICS_DSL_ROUTE,
   TRACE_ANALYTICS_JAEGER_INDICES_ROUTE,
 } from '../../../../common/constants/trace_analytics';
+import { getTenantIndexName } from '../../../../common/utils/tenant_index_name';
 import { TraceAnalyticsMode } from '../home';
 
 export async function handleDslRequest(
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ export async function handleDslRequest(
 
 export async function handleJaegerIndicesExistRequest(
   http: CoreStart['http'],
-  setJaegerIndicesExist,
+  setJaegerIndicesExist: (val: boolean) => void,
   dataSourceMDSId?: string,
   tenant?: string
 ) {
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ export async function handleJaegerIndicesExistRequest(
 
 export async function handleDataPrepperIndicesExistRequest(
   http: CoreStart['http'],
-  setDataPrepperIndicesExist,
+  setDataPrepperIndicesExist: (val: boolean) => void,
   dataSourceMDSId?: string,
   tenant?: string
 ) {
diff --git a/public/framework/core_refs.ts b/public/framework/core_refs.ts
index b78240e01..4c8e45f62 100644
--- a/public/framework/core_refs.ts
+++ b/public/framework/core_refs.ts
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ class CoreRefs {
   public application?: ApplicationStart;
   public queryAssistEnabled?: boolean;
   public summarizeEnabled?: boolean;
+  public traceMultitenancyEnabled?: boolean;
   public dashboard?: DashboardStart;
   public dashboardProviders?: unknown;
   public overlays?: OverlayStart;
diff --git a/public/plugin.tsx b/public/plugin.tsx
index c7a46dd08..3b75867ac 100644
--- a/public/plugin.tsx
+++ b/public/plugin.tsx
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
 
-import React from 'react';
-import { i18n } from '@osd/i18n';
 import { htmlIdGenerator } from '@elastic/eui';
+import { i18n } from '@osd/i18n';
+import React from 'react';
 import {
   AppCategory,
   AppMountParameters,
@@ -97,14 +97,14 @@ import {
   SetupDependencies,
 } from './types';
 
-export interface PublicConfig {
+interface PublicConfig {
   query_assist: {
     enabled: boolean;
   };
   summarize: {
     enabled: boolean;
   };
-  multitenancy: {
+  traceMultitenancy: {
     enabled: boolean;
   };
 }
@@ -269,8 +269,7 @@ export class ObservabilityPlugin
         startPage,
         dataSourcePluggables, // just pass down for now due to time constraint, later may better expose this as context
         dataSourceManagement,
-        coreStart.savedObjects,
-        this.config
+        coreStart.savedObjects
       );
     };
 
@@ -403,6 +402,7 @@ export class ObservabilityPlugin
     coreRefs.dashboard = startDeps.dashboard;
     coreRefs.queryAssistEnabled = this.config.query_assist.enabled;
     coreRefs.summarizeEnabled = this.config.summarize.enabled;
+    coreRefs.traceMultitenancyEnabled = this.config.traceMultitenancy.enabled;
     coreRefs.overlays = core.overlays;
     coreRefs.dataSource = startDeps.dataSource;
 
diff --git a/server/index.ts b/server/index.ts
index 7be0b7261..113ac0956 100644
--- a/server/index.ts
+++ b/server/index.ts
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ const observabilityConfig = {
     summarize: schema.object({
       enabled: schema.boolean({ defaultValue: false }),
     }),
-    multitenancy: schema.object({
+    traceMultitenancy: schema.object({
       enabled: schema.boolean({ defaultValue: false }),
     }),
   }),
@@ -34,6 +34,6 @@ export const config: PluginConfigDescriptor<ObservabilityConfig> = {
   exposeToBrowser: {
     query_assist: true,
     summarize: true,
-    multitenancy: true,
+    traceMultitenancy: true,
   },
 };
diff --git a/server/routes/trace_analytics_dsl_router.ts b/server/routes/trace_analytics_dsl_router.ts
index df7f18c43..23def5ea5 100644
--- a/server/routes/trace_analytics_dsl_router.ts
+++ b/server/routes/trace_analytics_dsl_router.ts
@@ -15,17 +15,15 @@ import {
   TRACE_ANALYTICS_DSL_ROUTE,
   TRACE_ANALYTICS_JAEGER_INDICES_ROUTE,
 } from '../../common/constants/trace_analytics';
-import { addRequestToMetric } from '../common/metrics/metrics_helper';
 import { getTenantIndexName } from '../../common/utils/tenant_index_name';
+import { addRequestToMetric } from '../common/metrics/metrics_helper';
 
 export function registerTraceAnalyticsDslRouter(router: IRouter, dataSourceEnabled: boolean) {
   router.post(
     {
       path: TRACE_ANALYTICS_DATA_PREPPER_INDICES_ROUTE,
       validate: {
-        body: schema.object({
-          tenant: schema.maybe(schema.string()),
-        }),
+        body: schema.any(),
         query: schema.object({
           dataSourceMDSId: schema.maybe(schema.string({ defaultValue: '' })),
         }),
@@ -68,9 +66,7 @@ export function registerTraceAnalyticsDslRouter(router: IRouter, dataSourceEnabl
     {
       path: TRACE_ANALYTICS_JAEGER_INDICES_ROUTE,
       validate: {
-        body: schema.object({
-          tenant: schema.maybe(schema.string()),
-        }),
+        body: schema.any(),
         query: schema.object({
           dataSourceMDSId: schema.maybe(schema.string({ defaultValue: '' })),
         }),
@@ -148,7 +144,7 @@ export function registerTraceAnalyticsDslRouter(router: IRouter, dataSourceEnabl
     },
     async (context, request, response) => {
       addRequestToMetric('trace_analytics', 'get', 'count');
-      const { index, size, ...rest } = request.body;
+      const { index, size, tenant, ...rest } = request.body;
       const { dataSourceMDSId } = request.query;
       const params: RequestParams.Search = {
         index: index || getTenantIndexName(DATA_PREPPER_INDEX_NAME, tenant),