diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/functional/scalability_dataset_extraction.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/steps/functional/scalability_dataset_extraction.sh
index 75896c687705d..d2db642d6ccc1 100755
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/functional/scalability_dataset_extraction.sh
+++ b/.buildkite/scripts/steps/functional/scalability_dataset_extraction.sh
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ buildkite-agent artifact upload "${OUTPUT_DIR}/scalability_traces.tar.gz"
 
 echo "--- Downloading Kibana artifacts used in tests"
 download_artifact kibana-default.tar.gz "${OUTPUT_DIR}/" --build "${KIBANA_BUILD_ID:-$BUILDKITE_BUILD_ID}"
-download_artifact kibana-default-plugins.tar.gz "${OUTPUT_DIR}/" --build "${KIBANA_BUILD_ID:-$BUILDKITE_BUILD_ID}"
 
 echo "--- Adding commit info"
 echo "${BUILDKITE_COMMIT}" > "${OUTPUT_DIR}/KIBANA_COMMIT_HASH"
diff --git a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/scalability/benchmarking.sh b/.buildkite/scripts/steps/scalability/benchmarking.sh
index 79875fb04d5fe..37e54f2feb864 100755
--- a/.buildkite/scripts/steps/scalability/benchmarking.sh
+++ b/.buildkite/scripts/steps/scalability/benchmarking.sh
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ download_artifacts() {
   tar -xzf "${LATEST_RUN_ARTIFACTS_DIR}/kibana-default.tar.gz" -C "$KIBANA_BUILD_LOCATION" --strip=1
 
   cd "$KIBANA_DIR"
-  tar -xzf "${LATEST_RUN_ARTIFACTS_DIR}/kibana-default-plugins.tar.gz"
   tar -xzf "${LATEST_RUN_ARTIFACTS_DIR}/scalability_traces.tar.gz"
 }