diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/calculateField.test.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/calculateField.test.ts
index 4e0fc5a013f..d119af9bd19 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/calculateField.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/calculateField.test.ts
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ const seriesBC = toDataFrame({
     { name: 'B', type: FieldType.number, values: [2, 200] },
     { name: 'C', type: FieldType.number, values: [3, 300] },
     { name: 'D', type: FieldType.string, values: ['first', 'second'] },
+    { name: 'E', type: FieldType.boolean, values: [true, false] },
   ],
 });
 
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@ describe('calculateField transformer w/ timeseries', () => {
           B: 2,
           C: 3,
           D: 'first',
+          E: true,
           'The Total': 6,
           TheTime: 1000,
         },
@@ -56,6 +58,7 @@ describe('calculateField transformer w/ timeseries', () => {
           B: 200,
           C: 300,
           D: 'second',
+          E: false,
           'The Total': 600,
           TheTime: 2000,
         },
@@ -129,7 +132,7 @@ describe('calculateField transformer w/ timeseries', () => {
         mode: CalculateFieldMode.BinaryOperation,
         binary: {
           left: 'B',
-          operation: BinaryOperationID.Add,
+          operator: BinaryOperationID.Add,
           right: 'C',
         },
         replaceFields: true,
@@ -160,7 +163,7 @@ describe('calculateField transformer w/ timeseries', () => {
         mode: CalculateFieldMode.BinaryOperation,
         binary: {
           left: 'B',
-          operation: BinaryOperationID.Add,
+          operator: BinaryOperationID.Add,
           right: '2',
         },
         replaceFields: true,
@@ -183,4 +186,37 @@ describe('calculateField transformer w/ timeseries', () => {
       ]);
     });
   });
+
+  it('boolean field', async () => {
+    const cfg = {
+      id: DataTransformerID.calculateField,
+      options: {
+        mode: CalculateFieldMode.BinaryOperation,
+        binary: {
+          left: 'E',
+          operator: BinaryOperationID.Multiply,
+          right: '1',
+        },
+        replaceFields: true,
+      },
+    };
+
+    await expect(transformDataFrame([cfg], [seriesBC])).toEmitValuesWith((received) => {
+      const data = received[0];
+      const filtered = data[0];
+      const rows = new DataFrameView(filtered).toArray();
+      expect(rows).toMatchInlineSnapshot(`
+        Array [
+          Object {
+            "E * 1": 1,
+            "TheTime": 1000,
+          },
+          Object {
+            "E * 1": 0,
+            "TheTime": 2000,
+          },
+        ]
+      `);
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/calculateField.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/calculateField.ts
index 6dddd055124..8dd1812e151 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/calculateField.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/transformations/transformers/calculateField.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { getFieldMatcher } from '../matchers';
 import { FieldMatcherID } from '../matchers/ids';
 import { RowVector } from '../../vector/RowVector';
 import { ArrayVector, BinaryOperationVector, ConstantVector } from '../../vector';
+import { AsNumberVector } from '../../vector/AsNumberVector';
 import { getTimeField } from '../../dataframe/processDataFrame';
 import defaults from 'lodash/defaults';
 import { BinaryOperationID, binaryOperators } from '../../utils/binaryOperators';
@@ -187,6 +188,9 @@ function findFieldValuesWithNameOrConstant(frame: DataFrame, name: string, allFr
 
   for (const f of frame.fields) {
     if (name === getFieldDisplayName(f, frame, allFrames)) {
+      if (f.type === FieldType.boolean) {
+        return new AsNumberVector(f.values);
+      }
       return f.values;
     }
   }
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/vector/AsNumberVector.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/vector/AsNumberVector.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..25645187de3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/vector/AsNumberVector.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import { Vector } from '../types';
+import { FunctionalVector } from './FunctionalVector';
+
+export class AsNumberVector extends FunctionalVector<number> {
+  constructor(private field: Vector) {
+    super();
+  }
+
+  get length() {
+    return this.field.length;
+  }
+
+  get(index: number) {
+    return +this.field.get(index);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/vector/index.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/vector/index.ts
index 805048065c3..5401189d278 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/vector/index.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/vector/index.ts
@@ -6,5 +6,6 @@ export * from './BinaryOperationVector';
 export * from './SortedVector';
 export * from './FormattedVector';
 export * from './IndexVector';
+export * from './AsNumberVector';
 
 export { vectorator } from './FunctionalVector';
diff --git a/public/app/core/components/TransformersUI/CalculateFieldTransformerEditor.tsx b/public/app/core/components/TransformersUI/CalculateFieldTransformerEditor.tsx
index 07233fd33d7..50c23bf806f 100644
--- a/public/app/core/components/TransformersUI/CalculateFieldTransformerEditor.tsx
+++ b/public/app/core/components/TransformersUI/CalculateFieldTransformerEditor.tsx
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ const calculationModes = [
   { value: CalculateFieldMode.ReduceRow, label: 'Reduce row' },
 ];
 
+const okTypes = new Set<FieldType>([FieldType.time, FieldType.number, FieldType.string]);
+
 export class CalculateFieldTransformerEditor extends React.PureComponent<
   CalculateFieldTransformerEditorProps,
   CalculateFieldTransformerEditorState
@@ -86,7 +88,7 @@ export class CalculateFieldTransformerEditor extends React.PureComponent<
 
           for (const frame of input) {
             for (const field of frame.fields) {
-              if (field.type !== FieldType.number) {
+              if (!okTypes.has(field.type)) {
                 continue;
               }