diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/histogram.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/histogram.test.ts
index 7bbd03397a0..f8aa3f9c991 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/histogram.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/histogram.test.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
 import { toDataFrame } from '../../dataframe/processDataFrame';
-import { FieldType } from '../../types/dataFrame';
+import { Field, FieldType } from '../../types/dataFrame';
 import { mockTransformationsRegistry } from '../../utils/tests/mockTransformationsRegistry';
 
-import { histogramTransformer, buildHistogram, histogramFieldsToFrame } from './histogram';
+import {
+  histogramTransformer,
+  buildHistogram,
+  histogramFieldsToFrame,
+  HistogramFields,
+  joinHistograms,
+} from './histogram';
 
 describe('histogram frames frames', () => {
   beforeAll(() => {
@@ -280,3 +286,110 @@ describe('histogram frames frames', () => {
     `);
   });
 });
+
+describe('joinHistograms', () => {
+  type TestHistogram = {
+    xMin: number[];
+    xMax: number[];
+    counts: number[][];
+  };
+
+  function toField(name: string, values: number[]): Field {
+    return {
+      config: {},
+      name,
+      type: FieldType.number,
+      values,
+    };
+  }
+
+  function testHistogramToHistogram(test: TestHistogram): HistogramFields {
+    return {
+      xMin: toField('xMin', test.xMin),
+      xMax: toField('xMax', test.xMax),
+      counts: test.counts.map((values) => toField(`count`, values)),
+    };
+  }
+
+  type TestCase = {
+    name: string;
+    histograms: TestHistogram[];
+    expected: TestHistogram;
+  };
+
+  const testCases: TestCase[] = [
+    {
+      name: 'just one histogram',
+      histograms: [
+        {
+          xMin: [1, 2, 3],
+          xMax: [2, 3, 4],
+          counts: [[1, 2, 3]],
+        },
+      ],
+      expected: {
+        xMin: [1, 2, 3],
+        xMax: [2, 3, 4],
+        counts: [[1, 2, 3]],
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'two histograms with same bucket sizes',
+      histograms: [
+        {
+          xMin: [1, 3, 4],
+          xMax: [2, 4, 5],
+          counts: [[1, 2, 3]],
+        },
+        {
+          xMin: [1, 3, 4],
+          xMax: [2, 4, 5],
+          counts: [[4, 5, 6]],
+        },
+      ],
+      expected: {
+        xMin: [1, 3, 4],
+        xMax: [2, 4, 5],
+        counts: [
+          [1, 2, 3],
+          [4, 5, 6],
+        ],
+      },
+    },
+    {
+      name: 'two histograms with same bucket sizes but counts in some different buckets',
+      histograms: [
+        {
+          xMin: [1, 3, 4],
+          xMax: [2, 4, 5],
+          counts: [[1, 2, 3]],
+        },
+        {
+          xMin: [2, 3, 6],
+          xMax: [3, 4, 7],
+          counts: [[4, 5, 6]],
+        },
+      ],
+      expected: {
+        xMin: [1, 2, 3, 4, 6],
+        xMax: [2, 3, 4, 5, 7],
+        counts: [
+          [1, 0, 2, 3, 0],
+          [0, 4, 5, 0, 6],
+        ],
+      },
+    },
+  ];
+
+  testCases.forEach((tc) => {
+    it(tc.name, () => {
+      const result = joinHistograms(tc.histograms.map(testHistogramToHistogram));
+
+      expect({
+        xMin: result.xMin.values,
+        xMax: result.xMax.values,
+        counts: result.counts.map((f) => f.values),
+      }).toEqual(tc.expected);
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/histogram.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/histogram.ts
index 7e5def97a2f..00549ad07ae 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/histogram.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/histogram.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { map } from 'rxjs/operators';
 
+import { outerJoinDataFrames } from '../..';
 import { getDisplayProcessor } from '../../field/displayProcessor';
 import { createTheme } from '../../themes/createTheme';
 import { GrafanaTheme2 } from '../../themes/types';
@@ -588,3 +589,63 @@ export function histogramFieldsToFrame(info: HistogramFields, theme?: GrafanaThe
     refId: `${DataTransformerID.histogram}`,
   };
 }
+
+/**
+ *
+ * Join multiple histograms into a histogram with multiple counts.
+ * Useful eg if you want to overlay them for comparison.
+ *
+ * This is needed because histogram results from database
+ * will have buckets omitted for 0 counts, but when joining multiple histograms
+ * we need to fill in the 0 values for missing buckets.
+ *
+ * Returns field configs of the first provided histogram.
+ * @alpha
+ */
+
+export function joinHistograms(histograms: HistogramFields[]): HistogramFields {
+  if (histograms.length === 1) {
+    return histograms[0];
+  }
+
+  let joined = outerJoinDataFrames({
+    frames: histograms.map((h) => ({
+      length: h.xMax.values.length,
+      fields: [h.xMax, h.xMin, ...h.counts],
+    })),
+    joinBy: (field) => field.name === 'xMax',
+  })!;
+
+  let xMaxField: Field | null = null;
+  let xMinField: Field | null = null;
+  let countFields: Field[] = [];
+
+  // merge all xMin fields into first xMin field
+  // and default all count fields to 0
+  joined.fields.forEach((f) => {
+    if (f.name === 'xMax') {
+      xMaxField = f;
+    } else if (f.name === 'xMin') {
+      if (xMinField == null) {
+        xMinField = f;
+      } else {
+        for (let i = 0; i < f.values.length; i++) {
+          xMinField.values[i] ??= f.values[i];
+        }
+      }
+    } else {
+      countFields.push({
+        ...f,
+        values: f.values.map((v) => v ?? 0),
+      });
+    }
+  });
+
+  const result: HistogramFields = {
+    xMin: xMinField!,
+    xMax: xMaxField!,
+    counts: countFields,
+  };
+
+  return result;
+}
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/panel/histogram/HistogramPanel.tsx b/public/app/plugins/panel/histogram/HistogramPanel.tsx
index 2c2805069a8..03938736458 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/panel/histogram/HistogramPanel.tsx
+++ b/public/app/plugins/panel/histogram/HistogramPanel.tsx
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { useMemo } from 'react';
 
-import { PanelProps, buildHistogram, cacheFieldDisplayNames, getHistogramFields } from '@grafana/data';
-import { histogramFieldsToFrame } from '@grafana/data/src/transformations/transformers/histogram';
+import { DataFrameType, PanelProps, buildHistogram, cacheFieldDisplayNames, getHistogramFields } from '@grafana/data';
+import { histogramFieldsToFrame, joinHistograms } from '@grafana/data/src/transformations/transformers/histogram';
 import { TooltipDisplayMode, TooltipPlugin2, useTheme2 } from '@grafana/ui';
 import { TooltipHoverMode } from '@grafana/ui/src/components/uPlot/plugins/TooltipPlugin2';
 
@@ -34,10 +34,16 @@ export const HistogramPanel = ({ data, options, width, height }: Props) => {
 
     cacheFieldDisplayNames(data.series);
 
-    if (data.series.length === 1) {
-      const info = getHistogramFields(data.series[0]);
-      if (info) {
-        return histogramFieldsToFrame(info);
+    if (
+      data.series.length === 1 ||
+      data.series.every(
+        (frame) => frame.meta?.type === DataFrameType.HeatmapCells || frame.meta?.type === DataFrameType.HeatmapRows
+      )
+    ) {
+      const histograms = data.series.map((frame) => getHistogramFields(frame)).filter((hist) => hist != null);
+
+      if (histograms.length) {
+        return histogramFieldsToFrame(joinHistograms(histograms), theme);
       }
     }
     const hist = buildHistogram(data.series, options);