diff --git a/src/plugins/profiling/common/index.ts b/src/plugins/profiling/common/index.ts
index 3f3df7b0a0835..432733119e6e1 100644
--- a/src/plugins/profiling/common/index.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/profiling/common/index.ts
@@ -23,41 +23,6 @@ export function getRoutePaths() {
   };
 }
 
-function toMilliseconds(seconds: string): number {
-  return parseInt(seconds, 10) * 1000;
-}
-
-export function getTopN(obj: any) {
-  const data = [];
-
-  if (obj.TopN!) {
-    for (const x in obj.TopN) {
-      if (obj.TopN.hasOwnProperty(x)) {
-        const values = obj.TopN[x];
-        for (let i = 0; i < values.length; i++) {
-          const v = values[i];
-          data.push({ x: toMilliseconds(x), y: v.Count, g: v.Value });
-        }
-      }
-    }
-  }
-
-  return data;
-}
-
-export function groupSamplesByCategory(samples: any) {
-  const series = new Map();
-  for (let i = 0; i < samples.length; i++) {
-    const v = samples[i];
-    if (!series.has(v.g)) {
-      series.set(v.g, []);
-    }
-    const value = series.get(v.g);
-    value.push([v.x, v.y]);
-  }
-  return series;
-}
-
 export function timeRangeFromRequest(request: any): [number, number] {
   const timeFrom = parseInt(request.query.timeFrom!, 10);
   const timeTo = parseInt(request.query.timeTo!, 10);
@@ -67,7 +32,7 @@ export function timeRangeFromRequest(request: any): [number, number] {
 // Converts from a Map object to a Record object since Map objects are not
 // serializable to JSON by default
 export function fromMapToRecord<K extends string, V>(m: Map<K, V>): Record<string, V> {
-  let output: Record<string, V> = {};
+  const output: Record<string, V> = {};
 
   for (const [key, value] of m) {
     output[key] = value;
diff --git a/src/plugins/profiling/common/topn.ts b/src/plugins/profiling/common/topn.ts
index b11ec56346f0c..3abc827bd4fa6 100644
--- a/src/plugins/profiling/common/topn.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/profiling/common/topn.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
  * Side Public License, v 1.
  */
 
+import { orderBy } from 'lodash';
+
 import {
   AggregationsHistogramAggregate,
   AggregationsHistogramBucket,
@@ -13,42 +15,62 @@ import {
 
 import { StackFrameMetadata } from './profiling';
 
-type TopNBucket = {
-  Value: string;
+export interface TopNSample {
+  Timestamp: number;
   Count: number;
-};
-
-type TopNBucketsByDate = {
-  TopN: Record<number, TopNBucket[]>;
-};
+  Category: string;
+}
 
-type TopNContainers = TopNBucketsByDate;
-type TopNDeployments = TopNBucketsByDate;
-type TopNHosts = TopNBucketsByDate;
-type TopNThreads = TopNBucketsByDate;
+export interface TopNSamples {
+  TopN: TopNSample[];
+}
 
-type TopNTraces = TopNBucketsByDate & {
+interface TopNTraces extends TopNSamples {
   Metadata: Record<string, StackFrameMetadata[]>;
-};
-
-type TopN = TopNContainers | TopNDeployments | TopNHosts | TopNThreads | TopNTraces;
+}
 
-export function createTopNBucketsByDate(
-  histogram: AggregationsHistogramAggregate
-): TopNBucketsByDate {
-  const topNBucketsByDate: Record<number, TopNBucket[]> = {};
+export function createTopNSamples(histogram: AggregationsHistogramAggregate): TopNSample[] {
+  const bucketsByTimestamp = new Map();
+  const uniqueCategories = new Set<string>();
 
+  // Convert the histogram into nested maps and record the unique categories
   const histogramBuckets = (histogram?.buckets as AggregationsHistogramBucket[]) ?? [];
   for (let i = 0; i < histogramBuckets.length; i++) {
-    const key = histogramBuckets[i].key / 1000;
-    topNBucketsByDate[key] = [];
-    histogramBuckets[i].group_by.buckets.forEach((item: any) => {
-      topNBucketsByDate[key].push({
-        Value: item.key,
-        Count: item.count.value,
-      });
-    });
+    const frameCountsByCategory = new Map();
+    const items = histogramBuckets[i].group_by.buckets;
+    for (let j = 0; j < items.length; j++) {
+      uniqueCategories.add(items[j].key);
+      frameCountsByCategory.set(items[j].key, items[j].count.value);
+    }
+    bucketsByTimestamp.set(histogramBuckets[i].key, frameCountsByCategory);
   }
 
-  return { TopN: topNBucketsByDate };
+  // Normalize samples so there are an equal number of data points per each timestamp
+  const samples: TopNSample[] = [];
+  for (const timestamp of bucketsByTimestamp.keys()) {
+    for (const category of uniqueCategories.values()) {
+      const frameCountsByCategory = bucketsByTimestamp.get(timestamp);
+      const sample: TopNSample = {
+        Timestamp: timestamp,
+        Count: frameCountsByCategory.get(category) ?? 0,
+        Category: category,
+      };
+      samples.push(sample);
+    }
+  }
+
+  return orderBy(samples, ['Timestamp', 'Count', 'Category'], ['asc', 'desc', 'asc']);
+}
+
+export function groupSamplesByCategory(samples: TopNSample[]) {
+  const series = new Map();
+  for (let i = 0; i < samples.length; i++) {
+    const v = samples[i];
+    if (!series.has(v.Category)) {
+      series.set(v.Category, []);
+    }
+    const value = series.get(v.Category);
+    value.push([v.Timestamp, v.Count]);
+  }
+  return series;
 }
diff --git a/src/plugins/profiling/public/app.tsx b/src/plugins/profiling/public/app.tsx
index dd038a66fdff1..7111d07f84930 100644
--- a/src/plugins/profiling/public/app.tsx
+++ b/src/plugins/profiling/public/app.tsx
@@ -137,7 +137,14 @@ function App({ fetchTopN, fetchElasticFlamechart }: Props) {
               fetchTopN={fetchTopN}
               setTopN={setTopN}
             />
-            <StackedBarChart id="topn" name="topn" height={400} x="x" y="y" category="g" />
+            <StackedBarChart
+              id="topn"
+              name="topn"
+              height={400}
+              x="Timestamp"
+              y="Count"
+              category="Category"
+            />
             <ChartGrid maximum={10} />
           </TopNContext.Provider>
         </>
diff --git a/src/plugins/profiling/public/components/stacked-bar-chart.tsx b/src/plugins/profiling/public/components/stacked-bar-chart.tsx
index 68187b45a2803..506c6f3c04c86 100644
--- a/src/plugins/profiling/public/components/stacked-bar-chart.tsx
+++ b/src/plugins/profiling/public/components/stacked-bar-chart.tsx
@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ export const StackedBarChart: React.FC<StackedBarChartProps> = ({
         data={ctx.samples}
         xAccessor={x}
         yAccessors={[y]}
+        stackAccessors={[x]}
         splitSeriesAccessors={[category]}
-        stackAccessors={[category]}
       />
       <Axis id="bottom-axis" position="bottom" tickFormat={timeFormatter('YYYY-MM-DD HH:mm:ss')} />
       <Axis id="left-axis" position="left" showGridLines tickFormat={(d) => Number(d).toFixed(0)} />
diff --git a/src/plugins/profiling/public/components/stacktrace-nav.tsx b/src/plugins/profiling/public/components/stacktrace-nav.tsx
index 030424b70c19b..f62f8ca4c90c2 100644
--- a/src/plugins/profiling/public/components/stacktrace-nav.tsx
+++ b/src/plugins/profiling/public/components/stacktrace-nav.tsx
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import React, { useEffect, useState } from 'react';
 
 import { EuiButtonGroup } from '@elastic/eui';
 
-import { getTopN, groupSamplesByCategory } from '../../common';
+import { groupSamplesByCategory, TopNSample, TopNSamples } from '../../common/topn';
 
 export const StackTraceNavigation = ({ index, projectID, n, timeRange, fetchTopN, setTopN }) => {
   const topnButtonGroupPrefix = 'topnButtonGroup';
@@ -59,11 +59,12 @@ export const StackTraceNavigation = ({ index, projectID, n, timeRange, fetchTopN
 
     console.log(new Date().toISOString(), 'started payload retrieval');
     fetchTopN(topnValue[0].value, index, projectID, timeRange.unixStart, timeRange.unixEnd, n).then(
-      (response) => {
+      (response: TopNSamples) => {
         console.log(new Date().toISOString(), 'finished payload retrieval');
-        const samples = getTopN(response);
+        const samples = response.TopN;
         const series = groupSamplesByCategory(samples);
-        setTopN({ samples, series });
+        const samplesWithoutZero = samples.filter((sample: TopNSample) => sample.Count > 0);
+        setTopN({ samples: samplesWithoutZero, series });
         console.log(new Date().toISOString(), 'updated local state');
       }
     );
diff --git a/src/plugins/profiling/server/routes/topn.ts b/src/plugins/profiling/server/routes/topn.ts
index cc63f9f2f0255..37d4bfdb783b2 100644
--- a/src/plugins/profiling/server/routes/topn.ts
+++ b/src/plugins/profiling/server/routes/topn.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ import {
 import type { DataRequestHandlerContext } from '../../../data/server';
 import { fromMapToRecord, getRoutePaths } from '../../common';
 import { groupStackFrameMetadataByStackTrace, StackTraceID } from '../../common/profiling';
-import { createTopNBucketsByDate } from '../../common/topn';
+import { createTopNSamples } from '../../common/topn';
 import { findDownsampledIndex } from './downsampling';
 import { logExecutionLatency } from './logger';
 import { autoHistogramSumCountOnGroupByField, newProjectTimeQuery } from './query';
@@ -69,11 +69,11 @@ export async function topNElasticSearchQuery(
   );
 
   const histogram = getAggs(resEvents)?.histogram as AggregationsHistogramAggregate;
-  const topN = createTopNBucketsByDate(histogram);
+  const topN = createTopNSamples(histogram);
 
   if (searchField !== 'StackTraceID') {
     return response.ok({
-      body: topN,
+      body: { TopN: topN },
     });
   }
 
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ export async function topNElasticSearchQuery(
     );
     return response.ok({
       body: {
-        ...topN,
+        TopN: topN,
         Metadata: metadata,
       },
     });