# 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")\
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**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")

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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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