diff --git a/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/nodes.stats/11_indices_metrics.yml b/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/nodes.stats/11_indices_metrics.yml
index 3f79227ce64e8..784c7b52b18b4 100644
--- a/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/nodes.stats/11_indices_metrics.yml
+++ b/rest-api-spec/src/main/resources/rest-api-spec/test/nodes.stats/11_indices_metrics.yml
@@ -141,8 +141,8 @@
 ---
 "Metric - indexing doc_status":
   - skip:
-      version: " - 2.99.99"
-      reason: "To be introduced in future release :: TODO: change if/when we backport to 2.x"
+      version: " - 2.10.99"
+      reason: "Doc Status Stats were introduced in v2.11.0"
   - do:
       nodes.info: {}
   - set:
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexingStats.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexingStats.java
index f1abea81a6511..89cbc59403faf 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexingStats.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/index/shard/IndexingStats.java
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ public Stats(StreamInput in) throws IOException {
             isThrottled = in.readBoolean();
             throttleTimeInMillis = in.readLong();
 
-            if (in.getVersion().onOrAfter(Version.V_3_0_0)) {
+            if (in.getVersion().onOrAfter(Version.V_2_11_0)) {
                 docStatusStats = in.readOptionalWriteable(DocStatusStats::new);
             } else {
                 docStatusStats = null;
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ public void writeTo(StreamOutput out) throws IOException {
             out.writeBoolean(isThrottled);
             out.writeLong(throttleTimeInMillis);
 
-            if (out.getVersion().onOrAfter(Version.V_3_0_0)) {
+            if (out.getVersion().onOrAfter(Version.V_2_11_0)) {
                 out.writeOptionalWriteable(docStatusStats);
             }
         }