diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/jobs/jobs_list/components/job_details/extract_job_details.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/jobs/jobs_list/components/job_details/extract_job_details.js
index 601ab270a52192..2d8fcb55d7f747 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/jobs/jobs_list/components/job_details/extract_job_details.js
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/jobs/jobs_list/components/job_details/extract_job_details.js
@@ -122,6 +122,14 @@ export function extractJobDetails(job) {
   if (job.node) {
     datafeed.items.push(['node', JSON.stringify(job.node)]);
   }
+  if (job.datafeed_config && job.datafeed_config.timing_stats) {
+    // remove the timing_stats list from the datafeed section
+    // so not to show it twice.
+    const i = datafeed.items.findIndex(item => item[0] === 'timing_stats');
+    if (i >= 0) {
+      datafeed.items.splice(i, 1);
+    }
+  }
 
   const counts = {
     title: i18n.translate('xpack.ml.jobsList.jobDetails.countsTitle', {
@@ -139,6 +147,17 @@ export function extractJobDetails(job) {
     items: filterObjects(job.model_size_stats).map(formatValues)
   };
 
+  const datafeedTimingStats = {
+    title: i18n.translate('xpack.ml.jobsList.jobDetails.datafeedTimingStatsTitle', {
+      defaultMessage: 'Timing stats'
+    }),
+    position: 'right',
+    items: (job.datafeed_config && job.datafeed_config.timing_stats) ?
+      filterObjects(job.datafeed_config.timing_stats)
+        .filter(o => o[0] !== 'total_search_time_ms') // remove total_search_time_ms as average_search_time_per_bucket_ms is better
+        .map(formatValues) : []
+  };
+
   return {
     general,
     customUrl,
@@ -151,6 +170,7 @@ export function extractJobDetails(job) {
     dataDescription,
     datafeed,
     counts,
-    modelSizeStats
+    modelSizeStats,
+    datafeedTimingStats
   };
 }
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/jobs/jobs_list/components/job_details/job_details.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/jobs/jobs_list/components/job_details/job_details.js
index 1711740d20bbad..08072bbab66e5a 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/jobs/jobs_list/components/job_details/job_details.js
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/jobs/jobs_list/components/job_details/job_details.js
@@ -67,7 +67,8 @@ class JobDetailsUI extends Component {
         dataDescription,
         datafeed,
         counts,
-        modelSizeStats
+        modelSizeStats,
+        datafeedTimingStats
       } = extractJobDetails(job);
 
       const { intl } = this.props;
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@ class JobDetailsUI extends Component {
           id: 'xpack.ml.jobsList.jobDetails.tabs.datafeedLabel',
           defaultMessage: 'Datafeed'
         }),
-        content: <JobDetailsPane sections={[datafeed]} />,
+        content: <JobDetailsPane sections={[datafeed, datafeedTimingStats]} />,
       }, {
         id: 'counts',
         name: intl.formatMessage({
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/services/job_service.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/services/job_service.js
index 6a9bdc74d2f40e..bb24e77f509e0a 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/services/job_service.js
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/public/services/job_service.js
@@ -351,6 +351,7 @@ class JobService {
       delete tempJob.datafeed_config.job_id;
       delete tempJob.datafeed_config.state;
       delete tempJob.datafeed_config.node;
+      delete tempJob.datafeed_config.timing_stats;
 
       // remove query_delay if it's between 60s and 120s
       // the back-end produces a random value between 60 and 120 and so
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/server/models/job_service/jobs.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/server/models/job_service/jobs.js
index e0ddbf5f1113d3..18e883f318301a 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/server/models/job_service/jobs.js
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/ml/server/models/job_service/jobs.js
@@ -200,6 +200,7 @@ export function jobsProvider(callWithRequest) {
           const datafeedStats = results[DATAFEED_STATS].datafeeds.find(ds => (ds.datafeed_id === datafeed.datafeed_id));
           if (datafeedStats) {
             datafeed.state = datafeedStats.state;
+            datafeed.timing_stats = datafeedStats.timing_stats;
           }
         }
         datafeeds[datafeed.job_id] = datafeed;