diff --git a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/GraphNG/nullInsertThreshold.test.ts b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/GraphNG/nullInsertThreshold.test.ts
index 2888434cf9d..210233a89b9 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/GraphNG/nullInsertThreshold.test.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/GraphNG/nullInsertThreshold.test.ts
@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ describe('nullInsertThreshold Transformer', () => {
 
     const result = applyNullInsertThreshold(df);
 
-    expect(result.fields[0].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual([1, 2, 3, 4, 10]);
-    expect(result.fields[1].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual([4, null, 6, null, 8]);
-    expect(result.fields[2].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual(['a', null, 'b', null, 'c']);
+    expect(result.fields[0].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]);
+    expect(result.fields[1].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual([4, null, 6, null, null, null, null, null, null, 8]);
+    expect(result.fields[2].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual(['a', null, 'b', null, null, null, null, null, null, 'c']);
   });
 
   test('should insert nulls at +threshold between adjacent > threshold: 2', () => {
@@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ describe('nullInsertThreshold Transformer', () => {
 
     const result = applyNullInsertThreshold(df);
 
-    expect(result.fields[0].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual([1, 2, 3, 4, 10]);
-    expect(result.fields[1].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual([4, null, 6, null, 8]);
-    expect(result.fields[2].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual(['a', null, 'b', null, 'c']);
+    expect(result.fields[0].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]);
+    expect(result.fields[1].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual([4, null, 6, null, null, null, null, null, null, 8]);
+    expect(result.fields[2].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual(['a', null, 'b', null, null, null, null, null, null, 'c']);
   });
 
   test('should insert trailing null at end +interval when timeRange.to.valueOf() exceeds threshold', () => {
@@ -110,9 +110,21 @@ describe('nullInsertThreshold Transformer', () => {
 
     const result = applyNullInsertThreshold(df, null, 13);
 
-    expect(result.fields[0].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual([1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11]);
-    expect(result.fields[1].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual([4, null, 6, null, 8, null]);
-    expect(result.fields[2].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual(['a', null, 'b', null, 'c', null]);
+    expect(result.fields[0].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual([1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11]);
+    expect(result.fields[1].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual([4, null, 6, null, null, null, null, null, null, 8, null]);
+    expect(result.fields[2].values.toArray()).toStrictEqual([
+      'a',
+      null,
+      'b',
+      null,
+      null,
+      null,
+      null,
+      null,
+      null,
+      'c',
+      null,
+    ]);
 
     // should work for frames with 1 datapoint
     const df2 = new MutableDataFrame({
diff --git a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/GraphNG/nullInsertThreshold.ts b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/GraphNG/nullInsertThreshold.ts
index c46b6cf6af0..6c61426f930 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/GraphNG/nullInsertThreshold.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-ui/src/components/GraphNG/nullInsertThreshold.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ export function applyNullInsertThreshold(
   frame: DataFrame,
   refFieldName?: string | null,
   refFieldPseudoMax: number | null = null,
-  insertMode: InsertMode = INSERT_MODES.threshold
+  insertMode: InsertMode = INSERT_MODES.threshold,
+  thorough = true
 ): DataFrame {
   if (frame.length === 0) {
     return frame;
@@ -49,7 +50,14 @@ export function applyNullInsertThreshold(
 
     const frameValues = frame.fields.map((field) => field.values.toArray());
 
-    const filledFieldValues = nullInsertThreshold(refValues, frameValues, threshold, refFieldPseudoMax, insertMode);
+    const filledFieldValues = nullInsertThreshold(
+      refValues,
+      frameValues,
+      threshold,
+      refFieldPseudoMax,
+      insertMode,
+      thorough
+    );
 
     if (filledFieldValues === frameValues) {
       return frame;
@@ -77,7 +85,9 @@ function nullInsertThreshold(
   threshold: number,
   // will insert a trailing null when refFieldPseudoMax > last datapoint + threshold
   refFieldPseudoMax: number | null = null,
-  getInsertValue: InsertMode
+  getInsertValue: InsertMode,
+  // will insert the value at every missing interval
+  thorough: boolean
 ) {
   const len = refValues.length;
   let prevValue: number = refValues[0];
@@ -86,8 +96,14 @@ function nullInsertThreshold(
   for (let i = 1; i < len; i++) {
     const curValue = refValues[i];
 
-    if (curValue - prevValue > threshold) {
+    while (curValue - prevValue > threshold) {
       refValuesNew.push(getInsertValue(prevValue, curValue, threshold));
+
+      prevValue += threshold;
+
+      if (!thorough) {
+        break;
+      }
     }
 
     refValuesNew.push(curValue);