diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/reporting/index.js b/x-pack/plugins/reporting/index.js
index 4e4b2d18e59c..a5d6c7e6b5db 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/reporting/index.js
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/reporting/index.js
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ export const reporting = (kibana) => {
       });
 
       // Register a function to with Monitoring to manage the collection of usage stats
-      monitoringPlugin.status.once('green', () => {
+      monitoringPlugin && monitoringPlugin.status.once('green', () => {
         if (monitoringPlugin.collectorSet) {
           const callCluster = callClusterFactory(server).getCallClusterInternal(); // uses callWithInternal as this is for internal collection
           monitoringPlugin.collectorSet.register(getReportingUsageCollector(server, callCluster));