diff --git a/dashboards-observability/public/components/explorer/hooks/use_fetch_visualizations.ts b/dashboards-observability/public/components/explorer/hooks/use_fetch_visualizations.ts
index 79e3e3c32..87c9cc134 100644
--- a/dashboards-observability/public/components/explorer/hooks/use_fetch_visualizations.ts
+++ b/dashboards-observability/public/components/explorer/hooks/use_fetch_visualizations.ts
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ export const useFetchVisualizations = ({
     const cur = queriesRef.current;
     const rawQuery = cur![requestParams.tabId][FINAL_QUERY];
     fetchVisualizations({
-      query: `${rawQuery} | stats count() by span(timestamp, '1${interval = interval ? interval: 'm' }')` },
+      query: `${rawQuery} | stats count() by span(timestamp, 1${interval = interval ? interval: 'm' })` },
       'viz',
       (res: any) => {
       dispatch(renderCountDis({
diff --git a/dashboards-observability/public/components/explorer/visualizations/count_distribution/count_distribution.tsx b/dashboards-observability/public/components/explorer/visualizations/count_distribution/count_distribution.tsx
index a31df4287..c332986b6 100644
--- a/dashboards-observability/public/components/explorer/visualizations/count_distribution/count_distribution.tsx
+++ b/dashboards-observability/public/components/explorer/visualizations/count_distribution/count_distribution.tsx
@@ -16,11 +16,13 @@ export const CountDistribution = ({
   countDistribution
 }: any) => {
 
-  if (!countDistribution || !countDistribution.data) return null;
+  if (
+    !countDistribution ||
+    !countDistribution.data ||
+    !countDistribution.metadata ||
+    !countDistribution.metadata.fields
+  ) return null;
   
-  const meta = countDistribution.metadata;
-  const xkey = meta?.xfield?.name;
-  const ykey = meta?.yfield?.name;
   const layout = {
     showlegend: true,
     margin: {
@@ -32,24 +34,12 @@ export const CountDistribution = ({
     },
     height: 220
   };
-  const config = {};
-  const xaxis = {
-    autorange: true
-  };
-  const yaxis = {
-    fixedrange: true
-  };
-
-  if (!xkey || !ykey) {
-    return null;
-  }
 
   return (
     <Bar
       visualizations={ countDistribution }
       name="Event counts"
       layoutConfig={ layout }
-      config={ config }
     />
   );
 };
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