diff --git a/modules/data-streams/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/datastreams/TSDBIndexingIT.java b/modules/data-streams/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/datastreams/TSDBIndexingIT.java
index eebbeabc75ac1..04a2f84701169 100644
--- a/modules/data-streams/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/datastreams/TSDBIndexingIT.java
+++ b/modules/data-streams/src/internalClusterTest/java/org/elasticsearch/datastreams/TSDBIndexingIT.java
@@ -331,7 +331,10 @@ public void testTsdbTemplatesNoKeywordFieldType() throws Exception {
                     new Template(
                         Settings.builder()
                             .put("index.mode", "time_series")
-                            .put("index.routing_path", randomBoolean() ? "metricset" : null)
+                            .put(
+                                "index.routing_path",
+                                randomBoolean() && INDEX_DIMENSIONS_TSID_OPTIMIZATION_FEATURE_FLAG ? null : "metricset"
+                            )
                             .build(),
                         new CompressedXContent(mappingTemplate),
                         null