diff --git a/pkg/tsdb/cloudwatch/response_parser.go b/pkg/tsdb/cloudwatch/response_parser.go
index 85b69a00a8b..2d18e427b67 100644
--- a/pkg/tsdb/cloudwatch/response_parser.go
+++ b/pkg/tsdb/cloudwatch/response_parser.go
@@ -254,6 +254,7 @@ func buildDataFrames(ctx context.Context, aggregatedResponse models.QueryRowResp
 			RefID: query.RefId,
 			Meta:  createMeta(query),
 		}
+		frame.Meta.Type = data.FrameTypeTimeSeriesMulti
 
 		for code := range aggregatedResponse.ErrorCodes {
 			if aggregatedResponse.ErrorCodes[code] {