diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/search_playground/tsconfig.json b/x-pack/plugins/search_playground/tsconfig.json
index eebfd0df9a7b3..29c144ff4bac8 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/search_playground/tsconfig.json
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/search_playground/tsconfig.json
@@ -44,7 +44,8 @@
     "@kbn/unified-doc-viewer-plugin",
     "@kbn/data-views-plugin",
     "@kbn/discover-utils",
-    "@kbn/data-plugin"
+    "@kbn/data-plugin",
+    "@kbn/search-index-documents"
   ],
   "exclude": [
     "target/**/*",