diff --git a/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/chart/chart.tsx b/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/chart/chart.tsx
index 8ba188af3dd9..f21ce3e4ef19 100644
--- a/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/chart/chart.tsx
+++ b/src/plugins/discover/public/application/components/chart/chart.tsx
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ import { useDiscoverContext } from '../../view_components/context';
 import { setInterval, useDispatch, useSelector } from '../../utils/state_management';
 
 interface DiscoverChartProps {
-  bucketInterval: TimechartHeaderBucketInterval;
-  chartData: Chart;
+  bucketInterval?: TimechartHeaderBucketInterval;
+  chartData?: Chart;
   config: IUiSettingsClient;
   data: DataPublicPluginStart;
   hits: number;
diff --git a/src/plugins/discover/public/application/view_components/canvas/discover_chart_container.tsx b/src/plugins/discover/public/application/view_components/canvas/discover_chart_container.tsx
index 568d61c2e4e0..ec57e086f8d4 100644
--- a/src/plugins/discover/public/application/view_components/canvas/discover_chart_container.tsx
+++ b/src/plugins/discover/public/application/view_components/canvas/discover_chart_container.tsx
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ export const DiscoverChartContainer = ({ hits, bucketInterval, chartData }: Sear
     indexPattern,
   ]);
 
-  if (!hits || !chartData || !bucketInterval) return null;
+  if (!hits) return null;
 
   return (
     <DiscoverChart