# How to plot a line chart pointing to zero instead of smoothing out till end
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-plot-a-line-chart-pointing-to-zero-instead-of-smoothing-out-till-end/317979
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [November 2, 2022, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-plot-a-line-chart-pointing-to-zero-instead-of-smoothing-out-till-end/317979 "2022-11-02T11:40:03Z")
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### Author:  [@Tukaram](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tukaram)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2022, 11:40am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-plot-a-line-chart-pointing-to-zero-instead-of-smoothing-out-till-end/317979/1 "2022-11-02T11:40:03Z")
As per attached graph, I am expecting that line graph should show some round circle if values after 5 on x axis are missing or just drop to zero on x axis.
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### Author:  [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2022, 2:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-plot-a-line-chart-pointing-to-zero-instead-of-smoothing-out-till-end/317979/2 "2022-11-02T14:12:13Z")
Hi @Tukaram
welcome to the Kibana community.
May I ask what version of the stack are you running?
Also, are you using Lens or the previous aggregation based editor to make the chart?
In the Lens editor there's the ability to choose which strategy to use for the presentation in case of missing values:
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### Author:  [@Tukaram](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tukaram)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-plot-a-line-chart-pointing-to-zero-instead-of-smoothing-out-till-end/317979/3 "2022-11-02T15:25:55Z")
Thanks for reply. I am using 7.16.2
I tried all options available there for fill gaps.
I am using sum aggregation to plot that line.
Is there any way to cut the line if my field is not there for future business hours?
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### Author:  [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-plot-a-line-chart-pointing-to-zero-instead-of-smoothing-out-till-end/317979/4 "2022-11-02T16:11:03Z")
But it looks like there's data, it's not just interpolating there.
I've tried to reproduce a similar chart, and is it visible the areas with missing values as the line is dotted and not solid:
With the `Zero` interpolation configuration the dotted lines goes down between 0 (with 1 data point) to 3 (where there's another data point). Same for the end of the series.
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### Author:  [@Tukaram](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tukaram)
#### Post date: [November 2, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-plot-a-line-chart-pointing-to-zero-instead-of-smoothing-out-till-end/317979/5 "2022-11-02T17:37:33Z")
Thanks, I dont see last 2 options from 'Visual Options' section. any different settings?
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### Author:  [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2022, 9:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-plot-a-line-chart-pointing-to-zero-instead-of-smoothing-out-till-end/317979/6 "2022-11-03T09:34:21Z")
Those options have been added to recent versions, but the values set were the default anyway before.
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### Author:  [@Tukaram](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tukaram)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2022, 4:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-plot-a-line-chart-pointing-to-zero-instead-of-smoothing-out-till-end/317979/7 "2022-11-08T16:58:22Z")
Is there any option to break the line instead of sloping it down to zero?
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### Author:  [@Marco\_Liberati](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marco_Liberati)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-plot-a-line-chart-pointing-to-zero-instead-of-smoothing-out-till-end/317979/8 "2022-11-08T17:03:06Z")
You mean not drawing anything where there's no data in between?
That is the default gap handling strategy in Lens.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 6, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-plot-a-line-chart-pointing-to-zero-instead-of-smoothing-out-till-end/317979/9 "2022-12-06T17:03:52Z")
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