# Dropping empty buckets in TSVB visualization **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [August 7, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropping-empty-buckets-in-tsvb-visualization/244212 "2020-08-07T18:56:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Goishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Goishin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Goishin)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2020, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropping-empty-buckets-in-tsvb-visualization/244212/1 "2020-08-07T18:56:08Z")
Hi all, I'm trying to plot a variety of metrics I just recently started capturing. These visualizations are using TSVB (and then within it, I'm selecting "Time Series"). Currently, my metrics are displayed using a SUM aggregation. However, I only have data points every fifteen seconds. All the empty spots between those data points is somehow also being rendered as zeros. How do I get a line chart like effect using TSVB, where it is dropping empty buckets in between my data points instead of trying to plot those as zeros? ---
**Author:** ![Goishin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Goishin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Goishin)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropping-empty-buckets-in-tsvb-visualization/244212/2 "2020-08-10T15:26:45Z")
What I ended up doing was changing the bucket size scale from auto to 15 seconds. I'm polling my metrics every fifteen seconds so it feels like a good matchup. It made the chart do what I wanted. Those empty buckets don't show up anymore. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dropping-empty-buckets-in-tsvb-visualization/244212/3 "2020-09-07T15:26:58Z")
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