# Null metric not showing any value
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/null-metric-not-showing-any-value/183942
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 3, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/null-metric-not-showing-any-value/183942 "2019-06-03T11:17:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@ek9boy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ek9boy)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 11:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/null-metric-not-showing-any-value/183942/1 "2019-06-03T11:17:32Z")
Hi, I am using Kibana Metric, when there is no value for that metric it shows blank. is it possible to show "0" when null?
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### Author:  [@nickpeihl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nickpeihl)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/null-metric-not-showing-any-value/183942/2 "2019-06-03T19:44:16Z")
This question has come up before. Please see if this answers your question. 🙂
> [@Kibana, Zero for null values](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-zero-for-null-values/136856/2):
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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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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2019, 7:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/null-metric-not-showing-any-value/183942/3 "2019-07-01T19:44:20Z")
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