diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a8eb4c9b60836..755c04def0b07 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@
     "tslint": "^5.11.0",
     "tslint-config-prettier": "^1.15.0",
     "tslint-plugin-prettier": "^2.0.0",
-    "typescript": "^3.0.3",
+    "typescript": "^3.1.3",
     "vinyl-fs": "^3.0.2",
     "xml2js": "^0.4.19",
     "xmlbuilder": "9.0.4",
diff --git a/tsconfig.json b/tsconfig.json
index 0ca1bef98f432..be0be350a8225 100644
--- a/tsconfig.json
+++ b/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 {
   "compilerOptions": {
     "baseUrl": ".",
+    "resolveJsonModule": true,
     "paths": {
-      "ui/*": [
-        "src/ui/public/*"
-      ]
+      "ui/*": ["src/ui/public/*"]
     },
     // Support .tsx files and transform JSX into calls to React.createElement
     "jsx": "react",
@@ -43,15 +42,13 @@
     // import tslib helpers rather than inlining helpers for iteration or spreading, for instance
     "importHelpers": true
   },
-  "include": [
-    "src/**/*"
-  ],
+  "include": ["src/**/*"],
   "exclude": [
-    "src/**/__fixtures__/**/*",
+    "src/**/__fixtures__/**/*"
     // In the build we actually exclude **/public/**/* from this config so that
     // we can run the TSC on both this and the .browser version of this config
     // file, but if we did it during development IDEs would not be able to find
     // the tsconfig.json file for public files correctly.
     // "src/**/public/**/*"
   ]
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/apm/types.d.ts b/x-pack/plugins/apm/types.d.ts
index e538124ba47eb..ac836cea8722d 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/apm/types.d.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/apm/types.d.ts
@@ -7,10 +7,6 @@
 // allow JSON files to be imported directly without TSLint errors
 // see: https://github.com/palantir/tslint/issues/1264#issuecomment-228433367
 // and: https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/Breaking-Changes#arbitrary-expressions-are-forbidden-in-export-assignments-in-ambient-contexts
-declare module '*.json' {
-  const json: any;
-  export default json;
-}
 
 interface StringMap<T> {
   [key: string]: T;
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 2446eb2e3642c..17bb0ab71979d 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -16215,10 +16215,10 @@ typescript-fsa@^2.0.0, typescript-fsa@^2.5.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/typescript-fsa/-/typescript-fsa-2.5.0.tgz#1baec01b5e8f5f34c322679d1327016e9e294faf"
   integrity sha1-G67AG16PXzTDImedEycBbp4pT68=
 
-typescript@^3.0.3:
-  version "3.0.3"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/typescript/-/typescript-3.0.3.tgz#4853b3e275ecdaa27f78fda46dc273a7eb7fc1c8"
-  integrity sha512-kk80vLW9iGtjMnIv11qyxLqZm20UklzuR2tL0QAnDIygIUIemcZMxlMWudl9OOt76H3ntVzcTiddQ1/pAAJMYg==
+typescript@^3.1.3:
+  version "3.1.3"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/typescript/-/typescript-3.1.3.tgz#01b70247a6d3c2467f70c45795ef5ea18ce191d5"
+  integrity sha512-+81MUSyX+BaSo+u2RbozuQk/UWx6hfG0a5gHu4ANEM4sU96XbuIyAB+rWBW1u70c6a5QuZfuYICn3s2UjuHUpA==
 
 ua-parser-js@^0.7.18, ua-parser-js@^0.7.9:
   version "0.7.18"