diff --git a/docs/changelog/115134.yaml b/docs/changelog/115134.yaml
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+pr: 115134
+summary: "Apm-data: ignore malformed enabled for metrics-app data stream"
+area: Data streams
+type: enhancement
+issues: []
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diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/apm-data/src/main/resources/component-templates/metrics-apm@settings.yaml b/x-pack/plugin/apm-data/src/main/resources/component-templates/metrics-apm@settings.yaml
index 819d5d7eafb8e..09d1354d8594b 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/apm-data/src/main/resources/component-templates/metrics-apm@settings.yaml
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/apm-data/src/main/resources/component-templates/metrics-apm@settings.yaml
@@ -5,10 +5,4 @@ _meta:
   managed: true
 template:
   settings:
-    codec: best_compression
-    mapping:
-      # apm@settings sets `ignore_malformed: true`, but we need
-      # to disable this for metrics since they use synthetic source,
-      # and this combination is incompatible with the
-      # aggregate_metric_double field type.
-      ignore_malformed: false
+    codec: best_compression
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