diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/elastic_response.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/elastic_response.ts
index 7b10665d271..505c0b3cbc8 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/elastic_response.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/elastic_response.ts
@@ -580,6 +580,9 @@ const createEmptyDataFrame = (
   const series = new MutableDataFrame({ fields: [] });
 
   series.addField({
+    config: {
+      filterable: true,
+    },
     name: timeField,
     type: FieldType.time,
   });
@@ -615,6 +618,9 @@ const createEmptyDataFrame = (
     }
 
     series.addField({
+      config: {
+        filterable: true,
+      },
       name: propName,
       type: FieldType.string,
     }).parse = (v: any) => {
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/specs/elastic_response.test.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/specs/elastic_response.test.ts
index 5d14b69445c..d158cab12f1 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/specs/elastic_response.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/specs/elastic_response.test.ts
@@ -1152,6 +1152,47 @@ describe('ElasticResponse', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  describe('Raw Data Query', () => {
+    beforeEach(() => {
+      targets = [
+        {
+          refId: 'A',
+          metrics: [{ type: 'raw_data', id: '1' }],
+          bucketAggs: [],
+        },
+      ];
+
+      response = {
+        responses: [
+          {
+            hits: {
+              total: {
+                relation: 'eq',
+                value: 1,
+              },
+              hits: [
+                {
+                  _id: '1',
+                  _type: '_doc',
+                  _index: 'index',
+                  _source: { sourceProp: 'asd' },
+                },
+              ],
+            },
+          },
+        ],
+      };
+
+      result = new ElasticResponse(targets, response).getTimeSeries();
+    });
+
+    it('should create dataframes with filterable fields', () => {
+      for (const field of result.data[0].fields) {
+        expect(field.config.filterable).toBe(true);
+      }
+    });
+  });
+
   describe('simple logs query and count', () => {
     const targets: any = [
       {