diff --git a/src/plugins/telemetry/tsconfig.json b/src/plugins/telemetry/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bdced01d9eb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/plugins/telemetry/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{
+  "extends": "../../../tsconfig.base.json",
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "composite": true,
+    "outDir": "./target/types",
+    "emitDeclarationOnly": true,
+    "declaration": true,
+    "declarationMap": true
+  },
+  "include": [
+    "public/**/**/*",
+    "server/**/**/*",
+    "common/**/*",
+    "../../../typings/**/*"
+  ],
+  "references": [
+    { "path": "../../core/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "../../plugins/usage_collection/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "../../plugins/telemetry_collection_manager/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "../../plugins/kibana_utils/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "../../plugins/kibana_react/tsconfig.json" }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/src/plugins/telemetry_collection_manager/tsconfig.json b/src/plugins/telemetry_collection_manager/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1bba81769f0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/plugins/telemetry_collection_manager/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+{
+  "extends": "../../../tsconfig.base.json",
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "composite": true,
+    "outDir": "./target/types",
+    "emitDeclarationOnly": true,
+    "declaration": true,
+    "declarationMap": true
+  },
+  "include": [
+    "server/**/*",
+    "common/*"
+  ],
+  "references": [
+    { "path": "../../core/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "../../plugins/usage_collection/tsconfig.json" }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/src/plugins/usage_collection/public/plugin.ts b/src/plugins/usage_collection/public/plugin.ts
index 40f27f826992..79faa9a10290 100644
--- a/src/plugins/usage_collection/public/plugin.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/usage_collection/public/plugin.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import {
 } from '../../../core/public';
 import { reportApplicationUsage } from './services/application_usage';
 
-interface PublicConfigType {
+export interface PublicConfigType {
   uiMetric: {
     enabled: boolean;
     debug: boolean;
diff --git a/src/plugins/usage_collection/tsconfig.json b/src/plugins/usage_collection/tsconfig.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..96b2c4d37e17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/plugins/usage_collection/tsconfig.json
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+  "extends": "../../../tsconfig.base.json",
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "composite": true,
+    "outDir": "./target/types",
+    "emitDeclarationOnly": true,
+    "declaration": true,
+    "declarationMap": true
+  },
+  "include": [
+    "public/**/*",
+    "server/**/*",
+    "common/*",
+    "../../../typings/**/*"
+  ],
+  "references": [
+    { "path": "../../core/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "../../plugins/kibana_utils/tsconfig.json" }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/test/tsconfig.json b/test/tsconfig.json
index 2c92367f8482..ec6612d0dd00 100644
--- a/test/tsconfig.json
+++ b/test/tsconfig.json
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@
   "references": [
     { "path": "../src/core/tsconfig.json" },
     { "path": "../src/plugins/kibana_utils/tsconfig.json" },
-    { "path": "../src/plugins/kibana_react/tsconfig.json" }
+    { "path": "../src/plugins/kibana_react/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "../src/plugins/usage_collection/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "../src/plugins/telemetry_collection_manager/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "../src/plugins/telemetry/tsconfig.json" }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index cf112b26a2cb..1ae53fab9b8a 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@
     "src/test_utils/**/*",
     "src/core/**/*",
     "src/plugins/kibana_utils/**/*",
-    "src/plugins/kibana_react/**/*"
+    "src/plugins/kibana_react/**/*",
+    "src/plugins/usage_collection/**/*",
+    "src/plugins/telemetry_collection_manager/**/*",
+    "src/plugins/telemetry/**/*"
     // In the build we actually exclude **/public/**/* from this config so that
     // we can run the TSC on both this and the .browser version of this config
     // file, but if we did it during development IDEs would not be able to find
@@ -25,6 +28,9 @@
     { "path": "./src/test_utils/tsconfig.json" },
     { "path": "./src/core/tsconfig.json" },
     { "path": "./src/plugins/kibana_utils/tsconfig.json" },
-    { "path": "./src/plugins/kibana_react/tsconfig.json" }
+    { "path": "./src/plugins/kibana_react/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "./src/plugins/usage_collection/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "./src/plugins/telemetry_collection_manager/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "./src/plugins/telemetry/tsconfig.json" }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/tsconfig.refs.json b/tsconfig.refs.json
index 54bd07e4b134..4b6ed4a0db81 100644
--- a/tsconfig.refs.json
+++ b/tsconfig.refs.json
@@ -5,5 +5,8 @@
     { "path": "./src/core/tsconfig.json" },
     { "path": "./src/plugins/kibana_utils/tsconfig.json" },
     { "path": "./src/plugins/kibana_react/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "./src/plugins/usage_collection/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "./src/plugins/telemetry_collection_manager/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "./src/plugins/telemetry/tsconfig.json" },
   ]
 }
diff --git a/x-pack/test/tsconfig.json b/x-pack/test/tsconfig.json
index 8e378ff1f4a6..6f7d693baac7 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/tsconfig.json
+++ b/x-pack/test/tsconfig.json
@@ -22,5 +22,8 @@
     { "path": "../../src/plugins/kibana_react/tsconfig.json" },
     { "path": "../plugins/licensing/tsconfig.json" },
     { "path": "../plugins/global_search/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "../../src/plugins/usage_collection/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "../../src/plugins/telemetry_collection_manager/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "../../src/plugins/telemetry/tsconfig.json" }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/x-pack/tsconfig.json b/x-pack/tsconfig.json
index f751aac1806d..1d392890b27f 100644
--- a/x-pack/tsconfig.json
+++ b/x-pack/tsconfig.json
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@
     "plugins/apm/scripts/**/*",
     "plugins/licensing/**/*",
     "plugins/global_search/**/*",
+    "../src/plugins/usage_collection/**/*",
+    "../src/plugins/telemetry_collection_manager/**/*",
+    "../src/plugins/telemetry/**/*"
   ],
   "compilerOptions": {
     "paths": {
@@ -31,5 +34,8 @@
     { "path": "../src/plugins/kibana_react/tsconfig.json" },
     { "path": "./plugins/licensing/tsconfig.json" },
     { "path": "./plugins/global_search/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "../src/plugins/usage_collection/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "../src/plugins/telemetry_collection_manager/tsconfig.json" },
+    { "path": "../src/plugins/telemetry/tsconfig.json" }
   ]
 }