diff --git a/elastic/changelog.d/19249.fixed b/elastic/changelog.d/19249.fixed
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..f82f8964ea031
--- /dev/null
+++ b/elastic/changelog.d/19249.fixed
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Regression fix: handle missing index fields in payload.
diff --git a/elastic/datadog_checks/elastic/elastic.py b/elastic/datadog_checks/elastic/elastic.py
index cb0b1cbd012de..16165921847b5 100644
--- a/elastic/datadog_checks/elastic/elastic.py
+++ b/elastic/datadog_checks/elastic/elastic.py
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ def _get_index_metrics(self, admin_forwarder, version, base_tags):
                 index_data['health_reverse'] = dd_health.reverse_status
 
             # Ensure that index_data does not contain None values
-            for key, value in index_data.items():
+            for key, value in list(index_data.items()):
                 if value is None:
                     del index_data[key]
                     self.log.debug("The index %s has no metric data for %s", idx['index'], key)
diff --git a/elastic/tests/test_unit.py b/elastic/tests/test_unit.py
index 214d49b27e56d..ce0ca93e21346 100644
--- a/elastic/tests/test_unit.py
+++ b/elastic/tests/test_unit.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 from datadog_checks.dev.http import MockResponse
 from datadog_checks.elastic import ESCheck
 from datadog_checks.elastic.elastic import AuthenticationError, get_value_from_path
-from datadog_checks.elastic.metrics import stats_for_version
+from datadog_checks.elastic.metrics import INDEX_STATS_METRICS, stats_for_version
 
 from .common import URL, get_fixture_path
 
@@ -242,3 +242,33 @@ def test_v8_process_stats_data(aggregator, instance):
     aggregator.assert_metric(
         "elasticsearch.breakers.inflight_requests.estimated_size_in_bytes", metric_type=aggregator.GAUGE
     )
+
+
+def test__get_index_metrics_empty_key(aggregator, instance, mock_http_response):
+    mock_http_response(
+        json_data=[
+            {
+                # 'docs.count' is missing
+                'docs.deleted': '0',
+                'health': 'yellow',
+                'index': 'testindex',
+                'pri': '1',
+                'pri.store.size': '225',
+                'rep': '1',
+                'status': 'open',
+                'store.size': '225',
+                'uuid': 'AHSf1ILbSHucwl2X6og55g',
+            },
+        ]
+    )
+    check = ESCheck('elastic', {}, instances=[instance])
+    # Focus only on index metrics, so mock out index search stats.
+    check._get_index_search_stats = mock.MagicMock()
+
+    check._get_index_metrics(admin_forwarder=False, version=[8, 8, 2], base_tags=[])
+
+    for m in INDEX_STATS_METRICS:
+        if m == 'elasticsearch.index.docs.count':
+            aggregator.assert_metric(m, count=0)
+        else:
+            aggregator.assert_metric(m)