diff --git a/src/core/server/integration_tests/saved_objects/migrations/group5/dot_kibana_split.test.ts b/src/core/server/integration_tests/saved_objects/migrations/group5/dot_kibana_split.test.ts
index 6a4bc23a814b..3c41eafb6102 100644
--- a/src/core/server/integration_tests/saved_objects/migrations/group5/dot_kibana_split.test.ts
+++ b/src/core/server/integration_tests/saved_objects/migrations/group5/dot_kibana_split.test.ts
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ import {
 } from '../kibana_migrator_test_kit';
 import { delay, parseLogFile } from '../test_utils';
 import '../jest_matchers';
-import { getElasticsearchClientWrapperFactory } from '../elasticsearch_client_wrapper';
 
 // define a type => index distribution
 const RELOCATE_TYPES: Record<string, string> = {
@@ -59,210 +58,6 @@ describe('split .kibana index into multiple system indices', () => {
     await clearLog(logFilePathSecondRun);
   });
 
-  describe('failure cases', () => {
-    const getFailingKibanaMigratorTestKit = async ({
-      logFilePath,
-      failOn,
-      delaySeconds,
-    }: {
-      logFilePath: string;
-      failOn: (methodName: string, methodArgs: any[]) => boolean;
-      delaySeconds?: number;
-    }) => {
-      const clientWrapperFactory = getElasticsearchClientWrapperFactory({
-        failOn,
-        errorDelaySeconds: delaySeconds,
-      });
-
-      return await getKibanaMigratorTestKit({
-        types: typeRegistry.getAllTypes(),
-        kibanaIndex: MAIN_SAVED_OBJECT_INDEX,
-        defaultIndexTypesMap: DEFAULT_INDEX_TYPES_MAP,
-        logFilePath,
-        clientWrapperFactory,
-      });
-    };
-
-    beforeEach(async () => {
-      esServer = await startElasticsearch({
-        dataArchive: Path.join(__dirname, '..', 'archives', '7.7.2_xpack_100k_obj.zip'),
-      });
-    });
-
-    describe('when the .kibana_task_manager migrator fails on the TRANSFORMED_DOCUMENTS_BULK_INDEX state, after the other ones have finished', () => {
-      it('is capable of completing the .kibana_task_manager migration in subsequent restart', async () => {
-        const { runMigrations: firstRun } = await getFailingKibanaMigratorTestKit({
-          logFilePath: logFilePathFirstRun,
-          failOn: (methodName, methodArgs) => {
-            // fail on esClient.bulk({ index: '.kibana_task_manager_1' }) which supposedly causes
-            // the .kibana_task_manager migrator to fail on the TRANSFORMED_DOCUMENTS_BULK_INDEX state
-            return methodName === 'bulk' && methodArgs[0].index === '.kibana_task_manager_1';
-          },
-          delaySeconds: 90, // give the other migrators enough time to finish before failing
-        });
-
-        try {
-          await firstRun();
-          throw new Error('First run should have thrown an error but it did not');
-        } catch (error) {
-          expect(error.message).toEqual(
-            'Unable to complete saved object migrations for the [.kibana_task_manager] index. Error: esClient.bulk() failed unexpectedly'
-          );
-        }
-      });
-    });
-
-    describe('when the .kibana migrator fails on the REINDEX_SOURCE_TO_TEMP_INDEX_BULK state', () => {
-      it('is capable of successfully performing the split migration in subsequent restart', async () => {
-        const { runMigrations: firstRun } = await getFailingKibanaMigratorTestKit({
-          logFilePath: logFilePathFirstRun,
-          failOn: (methodName, methodArgs) => {
-            // fail on esClient.bulk({ index: '.kibana_8.11.0_reindex_temp_alias' }) which supposedly causes
-            // the .kibana migrator to fail on the REINDEX_SOURCE_TO_TEMP_INDEX_BULK
-            return (
-              methodName === 'bulk' &&
-              methodArgs[0].index === `.kibana_${currentVersion}_reindex_temp_alias`
-            );
-          },
-          delaySeconds: 10, // give the .kibana_task_manager migrator enough time to finish before failing
-        });
-
-        try {
-          await firstRun();
-          throw new Error('First run should have thrown an error but it did not');
-        } catch (error) {
-          expect(error.message).toEqual(
-            'Unable to complete saved object migrations for the [.kibana] index. Error: esClient.bulk() failed unexpectedly'
-          );
-        }
-      });
-    });
-
-    describe('when the .kibana migrator fails on the CLONE_TEMP_TO_TARGET state', () => {
-      it('is capable of successfully performing the split migration in subsequent restart', async () => {
-        const { runMigrations: firstRun } = await getFailingKibanaMigratorTestKit({
-          logFilePath: logFilePathFirstRun,
-          failOn: (methodName, methodArgs) => {
-            // fail on esClient.indices.clone({ index: '.kibana_8.11.0_reindex_temp', target: ... }) which supposedly causes
-            // the .kibana migrator to fail on the CLONE_TEMP_TO_TARGET
-            return (
-              methodName === 'indices.clone' &&
-              methodArgs[0].index === `.kibana_${currentVersion}_reindex_temp` &&
-              methodArgs[0].target === `.kibana_${currentVersion}_001`
-            );
-          },
-          delaySeconds: 15, // give the other migrators enough time to finish before failing
-        });
-
-        try {
-          await firstRun();
-          throw new Error('First run should have thrown an error but it did not');
-        } catch (error) {
-          expect(error.message).toEqual(
-            'Unable to complete saved object migrations for the [.kibana] index. Error: esClient.indices.clone() failed unexpectedly'
-          );
-        }
-      });
-    });
-
-    describe('when the .kibana migrator fails on the UPDATE_TARGET_MAPPINGS_PROPERTIES state', () => {
-      it('is capable of successfully performing the split migration in subsequent restart', async () => {
-        const { runMigrations: firstRun } = await getFailingKibanaMigratorTestKit({
-          logFilePath: logFilePathFirstRun,
-          failOn: (methodName, methodArgs) => {
-            // fail on esClient.updateByQuery({ index: '.kibana_8.11.0_001' }) which supposedly causes
-            // the .kibana migrator to fail on the UPDATE_TARGET_MAPPINGS_PROPERTIES (pickup mappings' changes)
-            return (
-              methodName === 'updateByQuery' &&
-              methodArgs[0].index === `.kibana_${currentVersion}_001`
-            );
-          },
-          delaySeconds: 10, // give the other migrators enough time to finish before failing
-        });
-
-        try {
-          await firstRun();
-          throw new Error('First run should have thrown an error but it did not');
-        } catch (error) {
-          expect(error.message).toEqual(
-            'Unable to complete saved object migrations for the [.kibana] index. Error: esClient.updateByQuery() failed unexpectedly'
-          );
-        }
-      });
-    });
-
-    describe('when the .kibana_analytics migrator fails on the CLONE_TEMP_TO_TARGET state', () => {
-      it('is capable of successfully performing the split migration in subsequent restart', async () => {
-        const { runMigrations: firstRun } = await getFailingKibanaMigratorTestKit({
-          logFilePath: logFilePathFirstRun,
-          failOn: (methodName, methodArgs) => {
-            // fail on esClient.indices.clone({ index: '.kibana_8.11.0_reindex_temp', target: ... }) which supposedly causes
-            // the .kibana migrator to fail on the CLONE_TEMP_TO_TARGET
-            return (
-              methodName === 'indices.clone' &&
-              methodArgs[0].index === `.kibana_analytics_${currentVersion}_reindex_temp` &&
-              methodArgs[0].target === `.kibana_analytics_${currentVersion}_001`
-            );
-          },
-          delaySeconds: 15, // give the other migrators enough time to finish before failing
-        });
-
-        try {
-          await firstRun();
-          throw new Error('First run should have thrown an error but it did not');
-        } catch (error) {
-          expect(error.message).toEqual(
-            'Unable to complete saved object migrations for the [.kibana_analytics] index. Error: esClient.indices.clone() failed unexpectedly'
-          );
-        }
-      });
-    });
-
-    describe('when the .kibana_analytics migrator fails on the UPDATE_TARGET_MAPPINGS_PROPERTIES state', () => {
-      it('is capable of successfully performing the split migration in subsequent restart', async () => {
-        const { runMigrations: firstRun } = await getFailingKibanaMigratorTestKit({
-          logFilePath: logFilePathFirstRun,
-          failOn: (methodName, methodArgs) => {
-            // fail on esClient.updateByQuery({ index: '.kibana_8.11.0_001' }) which supposedly causes
-            // the .kibana migrator to fail on the UPDATE_TARGET_MAPPINGS_PROPERTIES (pickup mappings' changes)
-            return (
-              methodName === 'updateByQuery' &&
-              methodArgs[0].index === `.kibana_analytics_${currentVersion}_001`
-            );
-          },
-          delaySeconds: 10, // give the other migrators enough time to finish before failing
-        });
-
-        try {
-          await firstRun();
-          throw new Error('First run should have thrown an error but it did not');
-        } catch (error) {
-          expect(error.message).toEqual(
-            'Unable to complete saved object migrations for the [.kibana_analytics] index. Error: esClient.updateByQuery() failed unexpectedly'
-          );
-        }
-      });
-    });
-
-    afterEach(async () => {
-      const { runMigrations: secondRun } = await getKibanaMigratorTestKit({
-        types: typeRegistry.getAllTypes(),
-        logFilePath: logFilePathSecondRun,
-        kibanaIndex: MAIN_SAVED_OBJECT_INDEX,
-        defaultIndexTypesMap: DEFAULT_INDEX_TYPES_MAP,
-      });
-      const results = await secondRun();
-      expect(
-        results
-          .flat()
-          .every((result) => result.status === 'migrated' || result.status === 'patched')
-      ).toEqual(true);
-
-      await esServer?.stop();
-      await delay(2);
-    });
-  });
-
   describe('when migrating from a legacy version', () => {
     let migratorTestKitFactory: (logFilePath: string) => Promise<KibanaMigratorTestKit>;
 
diff --git a/src/core/server/integration_tests/saved_objects/migrations/group6/jest.integration.config.js b/src/core/server/integration_tests/saved_objects/migrations/group6/jest.integration.config.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..52f118ddf906
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core/server/integration_tests/saved_objects/migrations/group6/jest.integration.config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright Elasticsearch B.V. and/or licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. Licensed under the Elastic License
+ * 2.0 and the Server Side Public License, v 1; you may not use this file except
+ * in compliance with, at your election, the Elastic License 2.0 or the Server
+ * Side Public License, v 1.
+ */
+
+module.exports = {
+  // TODO replace the line below with
+  // preset: '@kbn/test/jest_integration_node
+  // to do so, we must fix all integration tests first
+  // see https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/130255/
+  preset: '@kbn/test/jest_integration',
+  rootDir: '../../../../../../..',
+  roots: ['<rootDir>/src/core/server/integration_tests/saved_objects/migrations/group6'],
+  // must override to match all test given there is no `integration_tests` subfolder
+  testMatch: ['**/*.test.{js,mjs,ts,tsx}'],
+};
diff --git a/src/core/server/integration_tests/saved_objects/migrations/group6/single_migrator_failures.test.ts b/src/core/server/integration_tests/saved_objects/migrations/group6/single_migrator_failures.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..7f78f3d033ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/core/server/integration_tests/saved_objects/migrations/group6/single_migrator_failures.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,246 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright Elasticsearch B.V. and/or licensed to Elasticsearch B.V. under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. Licensed under the Elastic License
+ * 2.0 and the Server Side Public License, v 1; you may not use this file except
+ * in compliance with, at your election, the Elastic License 2.0 or the Server
+ * Side Public License, v 1.
+ */
+
+import Path from 'path';
+import type { TestElasticsearchUtils } from '@kbn/core-test-helpers-kbn-server';
+import {
+  type ISavedObjectTypeRegistry,
+  MAIN_SAVED_OBJECT_INDEX,
+} from '@kbn/core-saved-objects-server';
+import { DEFAULT_INDEX_TYPES_MAP } from '@kbn/core-saved-objects-base-server-internal';
+import {
+  clearLog,
+  startElasticsearch,
+  getKibanaMigratorTestKit,
+  getCurrentVersionTypeRegistry,
+  currentVersion,
+} from '../kibana_migrator_test_kit';
+import { delay } from '../test_utils';
+import '../jest_matchers';
+import { getElasticsearchClientWrapperFactory } from '../elasticsearch_client_wrapper';
+
+export const logFilePathFirstRun = Path.join(__dirname, 'dot_kibana_split_1st_run.test.log');
+export const logFilePathSecondRun = Path.join(__dirname, 'dot_kibana_split_2nd_run.test.log');
+
+describe('split .kibana index into multiple system indices', () => {
+  let esServer: TestElasticsearchUtils['es'];
+  let typeRegistry: ISavedObjectTypeRegistry;
+
+  beforeAll(async () => {
+    typeRegistry = await getCurrentVersionTypeRegistry({ oss: false });
+  });
+
+  beforeEach(async () => {
+    await clearLog(logFilePathFirstRun);
+    await clearLog(logFilePathSecondRun);
+  });
+
+  describe('failure cases', () => {
+    const getFailingKibanaMigratorTestKit = async ({
+      logFilePath,
+      failOn,
+      delaySeconds,
+    }: {
+      logFilePath: string;
+      failOn: (methodName: string, methodArgs: any[]) => boolean;
+      delaySeconds?: number;
+    }) => {
+      const clientWrapperFactory = getElasticsearchClientWrapperFactory({
+        failOn,
+        errorDelaySeconds: delaySeconds,
+      });
+
+      return await getKibanaMigratorTestKit({
+        types: typeRegistry.getAllTypes(),
+        kibanaIndex: MAIN_SAVED_OBJECT_INDEX,
+        defaultIndexTypesMap: DEFAULT_INDEX_TYPES_MAP,
+        logFilePath,
+        clientWrapperFactory,
+      });
+    };
+
+    beforeEach(async () => {
+      esServer = await startElasticsearch({
+        dataArchive: Path.join(__dirname, '..', 'archives', '7.7.2_xpack_100k_obj.zip'),
+      });
+    });
+
+    describe('when the .kibana_task_manager migrator fails on the TRANSFORMED_DOCUMENTS_BULK_INDEX state, after the other ones have finished', () => {
+      it('is capable of completing the .kibana_task_manager migration in subsequent restart', async () => {
+        const { runMigrations: firstRun } = await getFailingKibanaMigratorTestKit({
+          logFilePath: logFilePathFirstRun,
+          failOn: (methodName, methodArgs) => {
+            // fail on esClient.bulk({ index: '.kibana_task_manager_1' }) which supposedly causes
+            // the .kibana_task_manager migrator to fail on the TRANSFORMED_DOCUMENTS_BULK_INDEX state
+            return methodName === 'bulk' && methodArgs[0].index === '.kibana_task_manager_1';
+          },
+          delaySeconds: 90, // give the other migrators enough time to finish before failing
+        });
+
+        try {
+          await firstRun();
+          throw new Error('First run should have thrown an error but it did not');
+        } catch (error) {
+          expect(error.message).toEqual(
+            'Unable to complete saved object migrations for the [.kibana_task_manager] index. Error: esClient.bulk() failed unexpectedly'
+          );
+        }
+      });
+    });
+
+    describe('when the .kibana migrator fails on the REINDEX_SOURCE_TO_TEMP_INDEX_BULK state', () => {
+      it('is capable of successfully performing the split migration in subsequent restart', async () => {
+        const { runMigrations: firstRun } = await getFailingKibanaMigratorTestKit({
+          logFilePath: logFilePathFirstRun,
+          failOn: (methodName, methodArgs) => {
+            // fail on esClient.bulk({ index: '.kibana_8.11.0_reindex_temp_alias' }) which supposedly causes
+            // the .kibana migrator to fail on the REINDEX_SOURCE_TO_TEMP_INDEX_BULK
+            return (
+              methodName === 'bulk' &&
+              methodArgs[0].index === `.kibana_${currentVersion}_reindex_temp_alias`
+            );
+          },
+          delaySeconds: 10, // give the .kibana_task_manager migrator enough time to finish before failing
+        });
+
+        try {
+          await firstRun();
+          throw new Error('First run should have thrown an error but it did not');
+        } catch (error) {
+          expect(error.message).toEqual(
+            'Unable to complete saved object migrations for the [.kibana] index. Error: esClient.bulk() failed unexpectedly'
+          );
+        }
+      });
+    });
+
+    describe('when the .kibana migrator fails on the CLONE_TEMP_TO_TARGET state', () => {
+      it('is capable of successfully performing the split migration in subsequent restart', async () => {
+        const { runMigrations: firstRun } = await getFailingKibanaMigratorTestKit({
+          logFilePath: logFilePathFirstRun,
+          failOn: (methodName, methodArgs) => {
+            // fail on esClient.indices.clone({ index: '.kibana_8.11.0_reindex_temp', target: ... }) which supposedly causes
+            // the .kibana migrator to fail on the CLONE_TEMP_TO_TARGET
+            return (
+              methodName === 'indices.clone' &&
+              methodArgs[0].index === `.kibana_${currentVersion}_reindex_temp` &&
+              methodArgs[0].target === `.kibana_${currentVersion}_001`
+            );
+          },
+          delaySeconds: 15, // give the other migrators enough time to finish before failing
+        });
+
+        try {
+          await firstRun();
+          throw new Error('First run should have thrown an error but it did not');
+        } catch (error) {
+          expect(error.message).toEqual(
+            'Unable to complete saved object migrations for the [.kibana] index. Error: esClient.indices.clone() failed unexpectedly'
+          );
+        }
+      });
+    });
+
+    describe('when the .kibana migrator fails on the UPDATE_TARGET_MAPPINGS_PROPERTIES state', () => {
+      it('is capable of successfully performing the split migration in subsequent restart', async () => {
+        const { runMigrations: firstRun } = await getFailingKibanaMigratorTestKit({
+          logFilePath: logFilePathFirstRun,
+          failOn: (methodName, methodArgs) => {
+            // fail on esClient.updateByQuery({ index: '.kibana_8.11.0_001' }) which supposedly causes
+            // the .kibana migrator to fail on the UPDATE_TARGET_MAPPINGS_PROPERTIES (pickup mappings' changes)
+            return (
+              methodName === 'updateByQuery' &&
+              methodArgs[0].index === `.kibana_${currentVersion}_001`
+            );
+          },
+          delaySeconds: 10, // give the other migrators enough time to finish before failing
+        });
+
+        try {
+          await firstRun();
+          throw new Error('First run should have thrown an error but it did not');
+        } catch (error) {
+          expect(error.message).toEqual(
+            'Unable to complete saved object migrations for the [.kibana] index. Error: esClient.updateByQuery() failed unexpectedly'
+          );
+        }
+      });
+    });
+
+    describe('when the .kibana_analytics migrator fails on the CLONE_TEMP_TO_TARGET state', () => {
+      it('is capable of successfully performing the split migration in subsequent restart', async () => {
+        const { runMigrations: firstRun } = await getFailingKibanaMigratorTestKit({
+          logFilePath: logFilePathFirstRun,
+          failOn: (methodName, methodArgs) => {
+            // fail on esClient.indices.clone({ index: '.kibana_8.11.0_reindex_temp', target: ... }) which supposedly causes
+            // the .kibana migrator to fail on the CLONE_TEMP_TO_TARGET
+            return (
+              methodName === 'indices.clone' &&
+              methodArgs[0].index === `.kibana_analytics_${currentVersion}_reindex_temp` &&
+              methodArgs[0].target === `.kibana_analytics_${currentVersion}_001`
+            );
+          },
+          delaySeconds: 15, // give the other migrators enough time to finish before failing
+        });
+
+        try {
+          await firstRun();
+          throw new Error('First run should have thrown an error but it did not');
+        } catch (error) {
+          expect(error.message).toEqual(
+            'Unable to complete saved object migrations for the [.kibana_analytics] index. Error: esClient.indices.clone() failed unexpectedly'
+          );
+        }
+      });
+    });
+
+    describe('when the .kibana_analytics migrator fails on the UPDATE_TARGET_MAPPINGS_PROPERTIES state', () => {
+      it('is capable of successfully performing the split migration in subsequent restart', async () => {
+        const { runMigrations: firstRun } = await getFailingKibanaMigratorTestKit({
+          logFilePath: logFilePathFirstRun,
+          failOn: (methodName, methodArgs) => {
+            // fail on esClient.updateByQuery({ index: '.kibana_8.11.0_001' }) which supposedly causes
+            // the .kibana migrator to fail on the UPDATE_TARGET_MAPPINGS_PROPERTIES (pickup mappings' changes)
+            return (
+              methodName === 'updateByQuery' &&
+              methodArgs[0].index === `.kibana_analytics_${currentVersion}_001`
+            );
+          },
+          delaySeconds: 10, // give the other migrators enough time to finish before failing
+        });
+
+        try {
+          await firstRun();
+          throw new Error('First run should have thrown an error but it did not');
+        } catch (error) {
+          expect(error.message).toEqual(
+            'Unable to complete saved object migrations for the [.kibana_analytics] index. Error: esClient.updateByQuery() failed unexpectedly'
+          );
+        }
+      });
+    });
+
+    afterEach(async () => {
+      const { runMigrations: secondRun } = await getKibanaMigratorTestKit({
+        types: typeRegistry.getAllTypes(),
+        logFilePath: logFilePathSecondRun,
+        kibanaIndex: MAIN_SAVED_OBJECT_INDEX,
+        defaultIndexTypesMap: DEFAULT_INDEX_TYPES_MAP,
+      });
+      const results = await secondRun();
+      expect(
+        results
+          .flat()
+          .every((result) => result.status === 'migrated' || result.status === 'patched')
+      ).toEqual(true);
+
+      await esServer?.stop();
+      await delay(2);
+    });
+  });
+});