Enable the option to use a value of 0 for metrics with no results

[mobrien-fexco]

Kibana version: 5.5.0

Elasticsearch version: 5.5.0

Server OS version: Windows 7

Browser version: Chrome Version 59.0.3071.115

Browser OS version: Windows 7

Original install method (e.g. download page, yum, from source, etc.): download page

If I create a gauge to display a count of results for a specific search, the case where the search returns zero results shows ":| No results found" rather than a gauge with a value of zero as I would deem preferable. I assume the same issue occurs for other visualizations also.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a gauge visualisation for a count metric with zero results

This appears to be a regression of an issue that had been fixed originally in version 4.5.0. See here for discussion:

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/showing-a-gauge-for-an-empty-result-set/95338

[jpertejo]

I also would appreciate this feature was implemented. Showing several ":| No results found" messages in a dashboard with some gauge (or other) visualizations can ruin a nice dashboard.
Our business users don't like to view this kind of messages and this behaviour greatly condition the design of our dashboards.

[ahmdzee]

+1

[w33ble]

This appears to be fixed in 6.0.0.

This appears to have been originally fixed in 5.0.0, and then regressed, as far back as 5.2.2. I'm going to label this a bug instead. I'll leave this open for the time being in the event that any fix should be backported to 5.6. (cc: @thomasneirynck).

[timroes]

Hey we unfortunately won't backport that fix to 5.6, since it's more a functional change than a bug, sorry.

I will close this issue, since the behavior has been adjusted since 6.0.

[Pratster95]

Is there a way in Kibana 5.6 to display 0 count instead of No results found?