diff --git a/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/chart/utils/create_histogram_configs.ts b/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/chart/utils/create_histogram_configs.ts
index 8e659e73f9d7..bfc6e4e480c7 100644
--- a/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/chart/utils/create_histogram_configs.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/chart/utils/create_histogram_configs.ts
@@ -25,5 +25,13 @@ export function createHistogramConfigs(
       },
     },
   ];
-  return data.search.aggs.createAggConfigs(indexPattern, visStateAggs);
+
+  // If index pattern is created before the index, this function will fail since the required fields for the histogram agg will be missing.
+  try {
+    return data.search.aggs.createAggConfigs(indexPattern, visStateAggs);
+  } catch (error) {
+    // Just display the error to the user but continue to render the rest of the page
+    data.search.showError(error as Error);
+    return;
+  }
 }