diff --git a/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/axes_editor.html b/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/axes_editor.html
index 6ec64015746..ced0d8157e9 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/axes_editor.html
+++ b/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/axes_editor.html
@@ -67,6 +67,17 @@
 			<input type="number" class="gf-form-input max-width-8" ng-model="ctrl.panel.xaxis.buckets" placeholder="auto" ng-change="ctrl.render()" ng-model-onblur bs-tooltip="'Number of buckets'" data-placement="right">
 		</div>
 
+		<div class="gf-form-inline" ng-if="ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode === 'histogram'">
+			<div class="gf-form">
+				<label class="gf-form-label width-6">X-Min</label>
+				<input type="number" class="gf-form-input width-5" placeholder="auto" empty-to-null ng-model="ctrl.panel.xaxis.min" ng-change="ctrl.render()" ng-model-onblur>
+			</div>
+			<div class="gf-form">
+				<label class="gf-form-label width-6">X-Max</label>
+				<input type="number" class="gf-form-input width-5" placeholder="auto" empty-to-null ng-model="ctrl.panel.xaxis.max" ng-change="ctrl.render()" ng-model-onblur>
+			</div>
+		</div>
+
 		<div>
 			<br/>
 			<h5 class="section-heading">Y-Axes</h5>
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/graph.ts b/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/graph.ts
index 4033e4b3778..e3eed6fc382 100755
--- a/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/graph.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/graph.ts
@@ -337,9 +337,17 @@ class GraphElement {
         let bucketSize: number;
 
         if (this.data.length) {
-          const histMin = _.min(_.map(this.data, s => s.stats.min));
-          const histMax = _.max(_.map(this.data, s => s.stats.max));
+          let histMin = _.min(_.map(this.data, s => s.stats.min));
+          let histMax = _.max(_.map(this.data, s => s.stats.max));
           const ticks = panel.xaxis.buckets || this.panelWidth / 50;
+          if (panel.xaxis.min != null) {
+            const isInvalidXaxisMin = tickStep(panel.xaxis.min, histMax, ticks) <= 0;
+            histMin = isInvalidXaxisMin ? histMin : panel.xaxis.min;
+          }
+          if (panel.xaxis.max != null) {
+            const isInvalidXaxisMax = tickStep(histMin, panel.xaxis.max, ticks) <= 0;
+            histMax = isInvalidXaxisMax ? histMax : panel.xaxis.max;
+          }
           bucketSize = tickStep(histMin, histMax, ticks);
           options.series.bars.barWidth = bucketSize * 0.8;
           this.data = convertToHistogramData(this.data, bucketSize, this.ctrl.hiddenSeries, histMin, histMax);
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/histogram.ts b/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/histogram.ts
index b09226d15e7..b5c478198c0 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/histogram.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/histogram.ts
@@ -43,6 +43,10 @@ export function convertValuesToHistogram(values: number[], bucketSize: number, m
   }
 
   for (let i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
+    // filter out values outside the min and max boundaries
+    if (values[i] < min || values[i] > max) {
+      continue;
+    }
     const bound = getBucketBound(values[i], bucketSize);
     histogram[bound] = histogram[bound] + 1;
   }
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/specs/graph.test.ts b/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/specs/graph.test.ts
index 58a35ea2a5f..ff81a8ae6eb 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/specs/graph.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/specs/graph.test.ts
@@ -516,4 +516,408 @@ describe('grafanaGraph', () => {
       expect(ctx.plotData[0].data[0][1]).toBe(2);
     });
   });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis min is set', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.min = 150;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('should not contain values lower than min', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(200);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(300);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis min is zero', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.min = 0;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[-100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('should not contain values lower than zero', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(100);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(300);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis min is null', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.min = null;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[-100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('xaxis min should not affect the histogram', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(-100);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(300);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis min is undefined', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.min = undefined;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[-100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('xaxis min should not affect the histogram', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(-100);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(300);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis max is set', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.max = 250;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('should not contain values greater than max', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(100);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(200);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis max is zero', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.max = 0;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[-100, 1], [100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('should not contain values greater than zero', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(-100);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(-100);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis max is null', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.max = null;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[-100, 1], [100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('xaxis max should not affect the histogram', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(-100);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(300);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis max is undefined', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.max = undefined;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[-100, 1], [100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('xaxis max should not should node affect the histogram', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(-100);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(300);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis min and max are set', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.min = 150;
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.max = 250;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('should not contain values lower than min and greater than max', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(200);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(200);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis min and max are zero', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.min = 0;
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.max = 0;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[-100, 1], [100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('xaxis max should be ignored otherwise the bucketSize is zero', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(100);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(300);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis min and max are null', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.min = null;
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.max = null;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('xaxis min and max should not affect the histogram', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(100);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(300);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis min and max are undefined', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.min = undefined;
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.max = undefined;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('xaxis min and max should not affect the histogram', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(100);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(300);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis min is greater than xaxis max', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.min = 150;
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.max = 100;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('xaxis max should be ignored otherwise the bucketSize is negative', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(200);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(300);
+    });
+  });
+
+  // aaa
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis min is greater than the maximum value', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.min = 301;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('xaxis min should be ignored otherwise the bucketSize is negative', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(100);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(300);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis min is equal to the maximum value', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.min = 300;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('xaxis min should be ignored otherwise the bucketSize is zero', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(100);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(300);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis min is lower than the minimum value', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.min = 99;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('xaxis min should not affect the histogram', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(100);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(300);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis max is equal to the minimum value', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.max = 100;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('should calculate correct histogram', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(100);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(100);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis max is a lower than the minimum value', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.max = 99;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('should calculate empty histogram', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(nonZero.length).toBe(0);
+    });
+  });
+
+  describe('when graph is histogram, and xaxis max is greater than the maximum value', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      setupCtx(() => {
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.mode = 'histogram';
+        ctrl.panel.xaxis.max = 301;
+        ctrl.panel.stack = false;
+        ctrl.hiddenSeries = {};
+        ctx.data[0] = new TimeSeries({
+          datapoints: [[100, 1], [100, 2], [200, 3], [300, 4]],
+          alias: 'series1',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('should calculate correct histogram', () => {
+      const nonZero = ctx.plotData[0].data.filter(t => t[1] > 0);
+      expect(Math.min.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(100);
+      expect(Math.max.apply(Math, nonZero.map(t => t[0]))).toBe(300);
+    });
+  });
 });