diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/datasource.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/datasource.ts
index 19fccfaf4ed..7ac4d57fe7d 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/datasource.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/datasource.ts
@@ -618,6 +618,7 @@ export class ElasticDatasource extends DataSourceApi<ElasticsearchQuery, Elastic
           text: 'string',
           scaled_float: 'number',
           nested: 'nested',
+          histogram: 'number',
         };
 
         const shouldAddField = (obj: any, key: string) => {