# Kibana, Zero for null values

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-zero-for-null-values/136856
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 21, 2018, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-zero-for-null-values/136856 "2018-06-21T12:36:09Z")
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### Author: ![a5a](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@a5a](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/a5a)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2018, 7:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-zero-for-null-values/136856/2 "2018-06-21T19:19:29Z")

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Hi Ahmed,

Please check out these resources

- Sparse timeseries might answer your question: [https://www.elastic.co/blog/sparse-timeseries-and-timelion](https://www.elastic.co/blog/sparse-timeseries-and-timelion)
- A bit of background on how we deal with 'null' + the issue for improving it: [https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/17717](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/issues/17717)

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