diff --git a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/uPlot/config/UPlotScaleBuilder.ts b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/uPlot/config/UPlotScaleBuilder.ts
index f07a9c8c0cd..30a91c20b07 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/uPlot/config/UPlotScaleBuilder.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/uPlot/config/UPlotScaleBuilder.ts
@@ -173,6 +173,12 @@ export class UPlotScaleBuilder extends PlotConfigBuilder<ScaleProps, Scale> {
           let absMin = Math.abs(dataMin!);
           let absMax = Math.abs(dataMax!);
           let max = Math.max(absMin, absMax);
+
+          // flat 0
+          if (max === 0) {
+            max = 80;
+          }
+
           dataMin = -max;
           dataMax = max;
         }