diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/app/section/ux/index.tsx b/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/app/section/ux/index.tsx
index da5bffd6cb186..f42db26b1e7d0 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/app/section/ux/index.tsx
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/app/section/ux/index.tsx
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ export function UXSection({ bucketSize }: Props) {
       breakdown: SERVICE_NAME,
       dataType: 'ux' as AppDataType,
       selectedMetricField: TRANSACTION_DURATION,
+      showPercentileAnnotations: false,
     },
   ];
 
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/configurations/constants/url_constants.ts b/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/configurations/constants/url_constants.ts
index 32ac0b91b830b..df2f31481016d 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/configurations/constants/url_constants.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/configurations/constants/url_constants.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ export enum URL_KEYS {
   HIDDEN = 'h',
   NAME = 'n',
   COLOR = 'c',
+  SHOW_PERCENTILE_ANNOTATIONS = 'spa',
 }
 
 export const ALL_VALUES_SELECTED = 'ALL_VALUES';
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/configurations/lens_attributes.ts b/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/configurations/lens_attributes.ts
index 9da4e2d1e41ed..30870e38fdd4f 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/configurations/lens_attributes.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/configurations/lens_attributes.ts
@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ export interface LayerConfig {
   selectedMetricField: string;
   color: string;
   name: string;
+  showPercentileAnnotations?: boolean;
 }
 
 export class LensAttributes {
@@ -600,7 +601,8 @@ export class LensAttributes {
         columnFilters,
         timeScale,
         paramFilters,
-        showPercentileAnnotations,
+        showPercentileAnnotations:
+          layerConfig.showPercentileAnnotations ?? showPercentileAnnotations,
       };
     } else {
       const fieldMeta = layerConfig.indexPattern.getFieldByName(sourceField);
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/configurations/synthetics/data_distribution_config.ts b/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/configurations/synthetics/data_distribution_config.ts
index 0a55fc95356fd..412bf2ef87f6b 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/configurations/synthetics/data_distribution_config.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/configurations/synthetics/data_distribution_config.ts
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ export function getSyntheticsDistributionConfig({ series, dataView }: ConfigProp
         label: MONITORS_DURATION_LABEL,
         id: MONITOR_DURATION_US,
         field: MONITOR_DURATION_US,
-        showPercentileAnnotations: true,
       },
       {
         label: LCP_LABEL,
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/hooks/use_lens_attributes.ts b/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/hooks/use_lens_attributes.ts
index e9e1be1be4cac..9e82c80802640 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/hooks/use_lens_attributes.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/hooks/use_lens_attributes.ts
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ export function getLayerConfigs(
         reportDefinitions: series.reportDefinitions ?? {},
         selectedMetricField: series.selectedMetricField,
         color: series.color ?? (theme.eui as unknown as Record<string, string>)[color],
+        showPercentileAnnotations: series.showPercentileAnnotations,
       });
     }
   });
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/hooks/use_series_storage.tsx b/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/hooks/use_series_storage.tsx
index a73c4caf10159..9cbddbbde9965 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/hooks/use_series_storage.tsx
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/hooks/use_series_storage.tsx
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ export function useSeriesStorage() {
 }
 
 function convertFromShortUrl(newValue: ShortUrlSeries): SeriesUrl {
-  const { dt, op, st, bd, ft, time, rdf, mt, h, n, c, ...restSeries } = newValue;
+  const { dt, op, st, bd, ft, time, rdf, mt, h, n, c, spa, ...restSeries } = newValue;
   return {
     operationType: op,
     seriesType: st,
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ function convertFromShortUrl(newValue: ShortUrlSeries): SeriesUrl {
     hidden: h,
     name: n,
     color: c,
+    showPercentileAnnotations: spa,
     ...restSeries,
   };
 }
@@ -180,6 +181,7 @@ interface ShortUrlSeries {
   [URL_KEYS.HIDDEN]?: boolean;
   [URL_KEYS.NAME]: string;
   [URL_KEYS.COLOR]?: string;
+  [URL_KEYS.SHOW_PERCENTILE_ANNOTATIONS]?: boolean;
   time?: {
     to: string;
     from: string;
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/types.ts b/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/types.ts
index 45e07c09c1430..09973e33b0dc2 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/types.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/observability/public/components/shared/exploratory_view/types.ts
@@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ export interface SeriesUrl {
   textReportDefinitions?: URLTextReportDefinition;
   selectedMetricField?: string;
   hidden?: boolean;
+  showPercentileAnnotations?: boolean;
   color?: string;
 }