diff --git a/modules/aggs-matrix-stats/build.gradle b/modules/aggs-matrix-stats/build.gradle
index 89b0fc89780..07ebf595044 100644
--- a/modules/aggs-matrix-stats/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/aggs-matrix-stats/build.gradle
@@ -22,3 +22,9 @@ esplugin {
   classname 'org.elasticsearch.search.aggregations.matrix.MatrixAggregationPlugin'
   hasClientJar = true
 }
+
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'cluster', 'index', 'search', 'nodes'
+  }
+}
diff --git a/modules/analysis-common/build.gradle b/modules/analysis-common/build.gradle
index 773c645f698..24e6e651c3f 100644
--- a/modules/analysis-common/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/analysis-common/build.gradle
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ esplugin {
   extendedPlugins = ['lang-painless']
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'cluster', 'search', 'nodes', 'bulk', 'termvectors', 'explain', 'count'
+  }
+}
+
 dependencies {
   compileOnly project(':modules:lang-painless')
 }
diff --git a/modules/ingest-common/build.gradle b/modules/ingest-common/build.gradle
index 6590bdc1c52..2ff50f1543e 100644
--- a/modules/ingest-common/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/ingest-common/build.gradle
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ dependencies {
   compile project(':libs:elasticsearch-dissect')
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'ingest', 'cluster', 'indices', 'index', 'bulk', 'nodes', 'get', 'update', 'cat', 'mget'
+  }
+}
+
 testClusters.integTest {
   // Needed in order to test ingest pipeline templating:
   // (this is because the integTest node is not using default distribution, but only the minimal number of required modules)
diff --git a/modules/ingest-geoip/build.gradle b/modules/ingest-geoip/build.gradle
index 944b3d55a11..60df6626c1e 100644
--- a/modules/ingest-geoip/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/ingest-geoip/build.gradle
@@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ dependencies {
   testCompile 'org.elasticsearch:geolite2-databases:20191119'
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'cluster', 'nodes', 'get', 'ingest'
+  }
+}
+
 task copyDefaultGeoIp2DatabaseFiles(type: Copy) {
   from { zipTree(configurations.testCompile.files.find { it.name.contains('geolite2-databases') }) }
   into "${project.buildDir}/ingest-geoip"
diff --git a/modules/ingest-user-agent/build.gradle b/modules/ingest-user-agent/build.gradle
index b3e17d58360..d45b30c9f1d 100644
--- a/modules/ingest-user-agent/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/ingest-user-agent/build.gradle
@@ -22,6 +22,12 @@ esplugin {
   classname 'org.elasticsearch.ingest.useragent.IngestUserAgentPlugin'
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'cluster', 'nodes', 'get', 'ingest'
+  }
+}
+
 testClusters.integTest {
   extraConfigFile 'ingest-user-agent/test-regexes.yml', file('src/test/test-regexes.yml')
 }
diff --git a/modules/lang-expression/build.gradle b/modules/lang-expression/build.gradle
index 2fd6e53effa..d3a165c13b9 100644
--- a/modules/lang-expression/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/lang-expression/build.gradle
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ dependencies {
   compile 'org.ow2.asm:asm-commons:5.0.4'
   compile 'org.ow2.asm:asm-tree:5.0.4'
 }
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'cluster', 'nodes', 'search'
+  }
+}
 
 dependencyLicenses {
   mapping from: /lucene-.*/, to: 'lucene'
diff --git a/modules/lang-mustache/build.gradle b/modules/lang-mustache/build.gradle
index 486793ab561..dd29def8a98 100644
--- a/modules/lang-mustache/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/lang-mustache/build.gradle
@@ -27,3 +27,9 @@ dependencies {
   compile "com.github.spullara.mustache.java:compiler:0.9.6"
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes', 'indices', 'index', 'bulk',
+      'put_script', 'render_search_template', 'search_template', 'msearch_template', 'lang_mustache'
+  }
+}
diff --git a/modules/lang-painless/build.gradle b/modules/lang-painless/build.gradle
index 75e41dcf2e2..68a990a3dda 100644
--- a/modules/lang-painless/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/lang-painless/build.gradle
@@ -44,6 +44,13 @@ dependencyLicenses {
   mapping from: /asm-.*/, to: 'asm'
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes', 'indices', 'index', 'search', 'get', 'bulk', 'update', 
+                'scripts_painless_execute', 'put_script', 'delete_script'
+  }
+}
+
 test {
   // in WhenThingsGoWrongTests we intentionally generate an out of memory error, this prevents the heap from being dumped to disk
   jvmArgs '-XX:-OmitStackTraceInFastThrow', '-XX:-HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError'
diff --git a/modules/mapper-extras/build.gradle b/modules/mapper-extras/build.gradle
index 983aa475fd1..ccc2d2c2398 100644
--- a/modules/mapper-extras/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/mapper-extras/build.gradle
@@ -22,3 +22,9 @@ esplugin {
   classname 'org.elasticsearch.index.mapper.MapperExtrasPlugin'
   hasClientJar = true
 }
+
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes', 'indices', 'index', 'search', 'get' 
+  }
+}
diff --git a/modules/parent-join/build.gradle b/modules/parent-join/build.gradle
index 67bcc9d54e8..28f2c1823a1 100644
--- a/modules/parent-join/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/parent-join/build.gradle
@@ -22,3 +22,9 @@ esplugin {
   classname 'org.elasticsearch.join.ParentJoinPlugin'
   hasClientJar = true
 }
+
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes', 'indices', 'index', 'search' 
+  }
+}
diff --git a/modules/percolator/build.gradle b/modules/percolator/build.gradle
index 05fbd652e55..7aec920d6b0 100644
--- a/modules/percolator/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/percolator/build.gradle
@@ -27,6 +27,11 @@ dependencies {
   testCompile project(path: ':modules:parent-join', configuration: 'runtime')
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'search', 'msearch'  
+  }
+}
 dependencyLicenses {
   // Don't check the client's license. We know it.
   dependencies = project.configurations.runtime.fileCollection {
diff --git a/modules/rank-eval/build.gradle b/modules/rank-eval/build.gradle
index 48396cc0a7f..5bc7506a594 100644
--- a/modules/rank-eval/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/rank-eval/build.gradle
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ esplugin {
   hasClientJar = true
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'rank_eval'  
+  }
+}
+
 testClusters.integTest {
   // Modules who's integration is explicitly tested in integration tests
   module file(project(':modules:lang-mustache').tasks.bundlePlugin.archiveFile)
diff --git a/modules/reindex/build.gradle b/modules/reindex/build.gradle
index 5e500de1b7c..dae1b3baa5f 100644
--- a/modules/reindex/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/reindex/build.gradle
@@ -56,6 +56,13 @@ dependencies {
   testCompile project(path: ':modules:parent-join', configuration: 'runtime')
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes', 'indices', 'index', 'get', 'search', 'mget', 'count', 
+                'update_by_query', 'delete_by_query', 'reindex_rethrottle', 'tasks', 'reindex', 'put_script'  
+  }
+}
+
 thirdPartyAudit.ignoreMissingClasses(
   // Commons logging
   'javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent',
diff --git a/modules/repository-url/build.gradle b/modules/repository-url/build.gradle
index 31fba2964f0..cec28b1d00f 100644
--- a/modules/repository-url/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/repository-url/build.gradle
@@ -26,7 +26,13 @@ esplugin {
   classname 'org.elasticsearch.plugin.repository.url.URLRepositoryPlugin'
 }
 
-// This directory is shared between two URL repositories and one FS repository in YAML integration tests
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes', 'indices', 'index', 'bulk', 'count', 'snapshot' 
+  }
+}
+
+ // This directory is shared between two URL repositories and one FS repository in YAML integration tests
 File repositoryDir = new File(project.buildDir, "shared-repository")
 
 /** A task to start the URLFixture which exposes the repositoryDir over HTTP **/
diff --git a/modules/transport-netty4/build.gradle b/modules/transport-netty4/build.gradle
index 99461b10590..ea6c749adb6 100644
--- a/modules/transport-netty4/build.gradle
+++ b/modules/transport-netty4/build.gradle
@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ dependencies {
   compile "io.netty:netty-transport:${versions.netty}"
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes'
+  }
+}
+
 dependencyLicenses {
   mapping from: /netty-.*/, to: 'netty'
 }
diff --git a/plugins/analysis-icu/build.gradle b/plugins/analysis-icu/build.gradle
index 19e484c0d21..419f0bebbac 100644
--- a/plugins/analysis-icu/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/analysis-icu/build.gradle
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ dependencies {
   compile "com.ibm.icu:icu4j:${versions.icu4j}"
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'search'
+  }
+}
+
 dependencyLicenses {
   mapping from: /lucene-.*/, to: 'lucene'
 }
diff --git a/plugins/analysis-kuromoji/build.gradle b/plugins/analysis-kuromoji/build.gradle
index 333818a8d61..85c8b472ace 100644
--- a/plugins/analysis-kuromoji/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/analysis-kuromoji/build.gradle
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ dependencies {
   compile "org.apache.lucene:lucene-analyzers-kuromoji:${versions.lucene}"
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'search'
+  }
+}
+
 dependencyLicenses {
   mapping from: /lucene-.*/, to: 'lucene'
 }
diff --git a/plugins/analysis-nori/build.gradle b/plugins/analysis-nori/build.gradle
index a9d3a1126dc..c732ec9037d 100644
--- a/plugins/analysis-nori/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/analysis-nori/build.gradle
@@ -26,6 +26,11 @@ dependencies {
   compile "org.apache.lucene:lucene-analyzers-nori:${versions.lucene}"
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'search'
+  }
+}
 dependencyLicenses {
   mapping from: /lucene-.*/, to: 'lucene'
 }
diff --git a/plugins/analysis-phonetic/build.gradle b/plugins/analysis-phonetic/build.gradle
index 61c4fdbd583..82091b91d9e 100644
--- a/plugins/analysis-phonetic/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/analysis-phonetic/build.gradle
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ dependencies {
   compile "commons-codec:commons-codec:${versions.commonscodec}"
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'search'
+  }
+}
+
 dependencyLicenses {
   mapping from: /lucene-.*/, to: 'lucene'
 }
diff --git a/plugins/analysis-smartcn/build.gradle b/plugins/analysis-smartcn/build.gradle
index ebe44850d00..a6d287ef690 100644
--- a/plugins/analysis-smartcn/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/analysis-smartcn/build.gradle
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ dependencies {
   compile "org.apache.lucene:lucene-analyzers-smartcn:${versions.lucene}"
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'search'
+  }
+}
+
 dependencyLicenses {
   mapping from: /lucene-.*/, to: 'lucene'
 }
diff --git a/plugins/analysis-stempel/build.gradle b/plugins/analysis-stempel/build.gradle
index 488e99ec912..7f90e108173 100644
--- a/plugins/analysis-stempel/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/analysis-stempel/build.gradle
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ dependencies {
   compile "org.apache.lucene:lucene-analyzers-stempel:${versions.lucene}"
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'search'
+  }
+}
+
 dependencyLicenses {
   mapping from: /lucene-.*/, to: 'lucene'
 }
diff --git a/plugins/analysis-ukrainian/build.gradle b/plugins/analysis-ukrainian/build.gradle
index 0e254e5f050..cec538d7d79 100644
--- a/plugins/analysis-ukrainian/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/analysis-ukrainian/build.gradle
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ dependencies {
   compile "ua.net.nlp:morfologik-ukrainian-search:3.7.5"
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'search'
+  }
+}
+
 dependencyLicenses {
   mapping from: /lucene-.*/, to: 'lucene'
   mapping from: /morfologik-.*/, to: 'lucene'
diff --git a/plugins/discovery-azure-classic/build.gradle b/plugins/discovery-azure-classic/build.gradle
index 3dfeef72fb9..196a60ef83d 100644
--- a/plugins/discovery-azure-classic/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/discovery-azure-classic/build.gradle
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ dependencies {
   compile 'javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api:2.2.2'
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes'
+  }
+}
 // needed to be consistent with ssl host checking
 String host = InetAddress.getLoopbackAddress().getHostAddress()
 
diff --git a/plugins/discovery-ec2/build.gradle b/plugins/discovery-ec2/build.gradle
index 401a204b3ea..a4e7453b353 100644
--- a/plugins/discovery-ec2/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/discovery-ec2/build.gradle
@@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ dependencies {
   compile "com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-annotations:${versions.jackson}"
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes'
+  }
+}
+
 dependencyLicenses {
   mapping from: /aws-java-sdk-.*/, to: 'aws-java-sdk'
   mapping from: /jackson-.*/, to: 'jackson'
diff --git a/plugins/discovery-ec2/qa/amazon-ec2/build.gradle b/plugins/discovery-ec2/qa/amazon-ec2/build.gradle
index 023c864d62e..a10d9feccfd 100644
--- a/plugins/discovery-ec2/qa/amazon-ec2/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/discovery-ec2/qa/amazon-ec2/build.gradle
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ dependencies {
   testCompile project(path: ':plugins:discovery-ec2', configuration: 'runtime')
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes'
+  }
+}
+
 final int ec2NumberOfNodes = 3
 
 Map<String, Object> expansions = [
diff --git a/plugins/discovery-gce/build.gradle b/plugins/discovery-gce/build.gradle
index 7e5c29ff5c3..275eb9312a3 100644
--- a/plugins/discovery-gce/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/discovery-gce/build.gradle
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ dependencies {
   compile "commons-codec:commons-codec:${versions.commonscodec}"
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes'
+  }
+}
+
 dependencyLicenses {
   mapping from: /google-.*/, to: 'google'
 }
diff --git a/plugins/discovery-gce/qa/gce/build.gradle b/plugins/discovery-gce/qa/gce/build.gradle
index 3a5bf84c7ba..7eb2fe13aae 100644
--- a/plugins/discovery-gce/qa/gce/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/discovery-gce/qa/gce/build.gradle
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ dependencies {
   testCompile project(path: ':plugins:discovery-gce', configuration: 'runtime')
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes'
+  }
+}
+
 /** A task to start the GCEFixture which emulates a GCE service **/
 task gceFixture(type: AntFixture) {
   dependsOn compileTestJava
diff --git a/plugins/ingest-attachment/build.gradle b/plugins/ingest-attachment/build.gradle
index d5f0928fb7d..283893ffd39 100644
--- a/plugins/ingest-attachment/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/ingest-attachment/build.gradle
@@ -72,6 +72,12 @@ dependencies {
   compile 'org.apache.commons:commons-lang3:3.9'
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes', 'ingest', 'index', 'get' 
+  }
+}
+
 dependencyLicenses {
   mapping from: /apache-mime4j-.*/, to: 'apache-mime4j'
 }
diff --git a/plugins/mapper-annotated-text/build.gradle b/plugins/mapper-annotated-text/build.gradle
index 8ce1ca2a416..2ae9a9278b0 100644
--- a/plugins/mapper-annotated-text/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/mapper-annotated-text/build.gradle
@@ -21,3 +21,9 @@ esplugin {
   description 'The Mapper Annotated_text plugin adds support for text fields with markup used to inject annotation tokens into the index.'
   classname 'org.elasticsearch.plugin.mapper.AnnotatedTextPlugin'
 }
+
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'search'
+  }
+}
diff --git a/plugins/mapper-murmur3/build.gradle b/plugins/mapper-murmur3/build.gradle
index 5b985d9138f..f556e82db38 100644
--- a/plugins/mapper-murmur3/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/mapper-murmur3/build.gradle
@@ -21,3 +21,9 @@ esplugin {
   description 'The Mapper Murmur3 plugin allows to compute hashes of a field\'s values at index-time and to store them in the index.'
   classname 'org.elasticsearch.plugin.mapper.MapperMurmur3Plugin'
 }
+
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'search'
+  }
+}
diff --git a/plugins/mapper-size/build.gradle b/plugins/mapper-size/build.gradle
index 5a49ce5d04b..0c757b4966b 100644
--- a/plugins/mapper-size/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/mapper-size/build.gradle
@@ -21,3 +21,9 @@ esplugin {
   description 'The Mapper Size plugin allows document to record their uncompressed size at index time.'
   classname 'org.elasticsearch.plugin.mapper.MapperSizePlugin'
 }
+
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index', 'get'
+  }
+}
diff --git a/plugins/repository-azure/build.gradle b/plugins/repository-azure/build.gradle
index 4cc45d52a9c..0f338d2580e 100644
--- a/plugins/repository-azure/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/repository-azure/build.gradle
@@ -32,6 +32,12 @@ dependencies {
   testCompile project(':test:fixtures:azure-fixture')
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes'
+  }
+}
+
 dependencyLicenses {
   mapping from: /azure-.*/, to: 'azure'
   mapping from: /jackson-.*/, to: 'jackson'
diff --git a/plugins/repository-azure/qa/microsoft-azure-storage/build.gradle b/plugins/repository-azure/qa/microsoft-azure-storage/build.gradle
index 529ee899fc8..b594ff3b172 100644
--- a/plugins/repository-azure/qa/microsoft-azure-storage/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/repository-azure/qa/microsoft-azure-storage/build.gradle
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ apply plugin: 'elasticsearch.standalone-rest-test'
 apply plugin: 'elasticsearch.rest-test'
 apply plugin: 'elasticsearch.test.fixtures'
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'snapshot', 'bulk', 'count', 'indices'
+  }
+}
+
 testFixtures.useFixture ":test:fixtures:azure-fixture", "azure-fixture"
 
 boolean useFixture = false
diff --git a/plugins/repository-gcs/build.gradle b/plugins/repository-gcs/build.gradle
index 3713dbb752c..12788d45b45 100644
--- a/plugins/repository-gcs/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/repository-gcs/build.gradle
@@ -58,6 +58,12 @@ dependencies {
   testCompile project(':test:fixtures:gcs-fixture')
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes'
+  }
+}
+
 dependencyLicenses {
   mapping from: /google-cloud-.*/, to: 'google-cloud'
   mapping from: /google-auth-.*/, to: 'google-auth'
diff --git a/plugins/repository-gcs/qa/google-cloud-storage/build.gradle b/plugins/repository-gcs/qa/google-cloud-storage/build.gradle
index 751589caea8..2cf4ae5456e 100644
--- a/plugins/repository-gcs/qa/google-cloud-storage/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/repository-gcs/qa/google-cloud-storage/build.gradle
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ dependencies {
   testCompile project(path: ':plugins:repository-gcs')
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'snapshot','indices', 'index', 'bulk', 'count'
+  }
+}
+
 testFixtures.useFixture(':test:fixtures:gcs-fixture')
 boolean useFixture = false
 
diff --git a/plugins/repository-hdfs/build.gradle b/plugins/repository-hdfs/build.gradle
index e6ae2e8c9de..1c78f6ad059 100644
--- a/plugins/repository-hdfs/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/repository-hdfs/build.gradle
@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ dependencies {
   }
 }
 
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes', 'indices', 'index', 'snapshot'
+  }
+}
+
 normalization {
   runtimeClasspath {
     // ignore generated keytab files for the purposes of build avoidance
diff --git a/plugins/store-smb/build.gradle b/plugins/store-smb/build.gradle
index f2238e0a49c..87aad3e5976 100644
--- a/plugins/store-smb/build.gradle
+++ b/plugins/store-smb/build.gradle
@@ -21,4 +21,8 @@ esplugin {
   description 'The Store SMB plugin adds support for SMB stores.'
   classname 'org.elasticsearch.plugin.store.smb.SMBStorePlugin'
 }
-
+restResources {
+  restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes', 'index', 'indices', 'get'
+  }
+}
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/autoscaling/qa/rest/build.gradle b/x-pack/plugin/autoscaling/qa/rest/build.gradle
index 631c6e950ee..d7d66eeffc2 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/autoscaling/qa/rest/build.gradle
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/autoscaling/qa/rest/build.gradle
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ dependencies {
 
 restResources {
   restApi {
+    includeCore '_common'
     includeXpack 'autoscaling'
   }
 }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/ccr/qa/rest/build.gradle b/x-pack/plugin/ccr/qa/rest/build.gradle
index d95ac271df5..fd16660178c 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/ccr/qa/rest/build.gradle
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/ccr/qa/rest/build.gradle
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ apply plugin: 'elasticsearch.standalone-test'
 
 restResources {
   restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes', 'indices', 'index', 'info' 
     includeXpack 'ccr'
-  }
+  } 
 }
 
 dependencies {
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/enrich/qa/rest/build.gradle b/x-pack/plugin/enrich/qa/rest/build.gradle
index 209154dd448..93441347417 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/enrich/qa/rest/build.gradle
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/enrich/qa/rest/build.gradle
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ apply plugin: 'elasticsearch.rest-test'
 
 restResources {
   restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'indices', 'index'
     includeXpack 'enrich'
   }
 }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/eql/qa/rest/build.gradle b/x-pack/plugin/eql/qa/rest/build.gradle
index a7e94fcba6d..43077d1d5c5 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/eql/qa/rest/build.gradle
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/eql/qa/rest/build.gradle
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ apply plugin: 'elasticsearch.rest-test'
 
 restResources {
   restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'bulk'
     includeXpack 'eql'
   }
 }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/graph/qa/with-security/build.gradle b/x-pack/plugin/graph/qa/with-security/build.gradle
index 869e926102d..2f0461dd3f1 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/graph/qa/with-security/build.gradle
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/graph/qa/with-security/build.gradle
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ dependencies {
 // bring in graph rest test suite
 restResources {
   restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'indices', 'index'
     includeXpack 'graph'
   }
   restTests {
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/ilm/qa/rest/build.gradle b/x-pack/plugin/ilm/qa/rest/build.gradle
index 5893b56bde6..c217af251ee 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/ilm/qa/rest/build.gradle
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/ilm/qa/rest/build.gradle
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ dependencies {
 
 restResources {
   restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'indices', 'index', 'snapshot'
     includeXpack 'ilm', 'slm'
   }
 }
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/ml/qa/ml-with-security/build.gradle b/x-pack/plugin/ml/qa/ml-with-security/build.gradle
index 516e5c626fc..1146db74510 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/ml/qa/ml-with-security/build.gradle
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/ml/qa/ml-with-security/build.gradle
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ dependencies {
 // bring in machine learning rest test suite
 restResources {
   restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes', 'indices', 'index', 'search', 'get', 'count', 'ingest'
     includeXpack 'ml', 'cat'
   }
   restTests {
diff --git a/x-pack/plugin/watcher/qa/rest/build.gradle b/x-pack/plugin/watcher/qa/rest/build.gradle
index df648262e99..4d0ad83d7c9 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugin/watcher/qa/rest/build.gradle
+++ b/x-pack/plugin/watcher/qa/rest/build.gradle
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ artifacts {
 
 restResources {
   restApi {
+    includeCore '_common', 'cluster', 'nodes', 'search', 'get', 'indices', 
+                'index', 'put_script', 'ingest', 'count'
     includeXpack 'watcher', 'xpack'
   }
 }