diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/types/data.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/types/data.ts
index 619bd0f3c5c..da307b716b8 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/types/data.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/types/data.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ export enum LoadingState {
   Error = 'Error',
 }
 
-type PreferredVisualisationType = 'graph' | 'table';
+export type PreferredVisualisationType = 'graph' | 'table';
 
 export interface QueryResultMeta {
   /** DatasSource Specific Values */
diff --git a/public/app/core/table_model.ts b/public/app/core/table_model.ts
index 3ffdeeb8ad8..fc387bae773 100644
--- a/public/app/core/table_model.ts
+++ b/public/app/core/table_model.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import _ from 'lodash';
-import { Column, TableData } from '@grafana/data';
+import { Column, TableData, QueryResultMeta } from '@grafana/data';
 
 /**
  * Extends the standard Column class with variables that get
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ export default class TableModel implements TableData {
   type: string;
   columnMap: any;
   refId: string;
+  meta?: QueryResultMeta;
 
   constructor(table?: any) {
     this.columns = [];
diff --git a/public/app/features/explore/utils/ResultProcessor.ts b/public/app/features/explore/utils/ResultProcessor.ts
index cd6eb7454ba..28547e1da02 100644
--- a/public/app/features/explore/utils/ResultProcessor.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/explore/utils/ResultProcessor.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import {
   toDataFrame,
   getDisplayProcessor,
   ExploreMode,
+  PreferredVisualisationType,
 } from '@grafana/data';
 import { ExploreItemState } from 'app/types/explore';
 import TableModel, { mergeTablesIntoModel } from 'app/core/table_model';
@@ -29,13 +30,14 @@ export class ResultProcessor {
     }
 
     const onlyTimeSeries = this.dataFrames.filter(frame => isTimeSeries(frame, this.state.datasourceInstance?.meta.id));
+    const timeSeriesToShowInGraph = onlyTimeSeries.filter(frame => shouldShowInVisualisationType(frame, 'graph'));
 
-    if (onlyTimeSeries.length === 0) {
+    if (timeSeriesToShowInGraph.length === 0) {
       return null;
     }
 
     return getGraphSeriesModel(
-      onlyTimeSeries,
+      timeSeriesToShowInGraph,
       this.timeZone,
       {},
       { showBars: false, showLines: true, showPoints: false },
@@ -48,7 +50,7 @@ export class ResultProcessor {
       return null;
     }
 
-    const onlyTables = this.dataFrames.filter(frame => shouldShowInTable(frame));
+    const onlyTables = this.dataFrames.filter(frame => shouldShowInVisualisationType(frame, 'table'));
 
     if (onlyTables.length === 0) {
       return null;
@@ -125,8 +127,8 @@ function isTimeSeries(frame: DataFrame, datasource?: string): boolean {
   return false;
 }
 
-function shouldShowInTable(frame: DataFrame) {
-  if (frame.meta?.preferredVisualisationType && frame.meta?.preferredVisualisationType !== 'table') {
+function shouldShowInVisualisationType(frame: DataFrame, visualisation: PreferredVisualisationType) {
+  if (frame.meta?.preferredVisualisationType && frame.meta?.preferredVisualisationType !== visualisation) {
     return false;
   }
 
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/result_transformer.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/result_transformer.ts
index 858780bdcd4..5f601a2faa6 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/result_transformer.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/result_transformer.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import _ from 'lodash';
 import TableModel from 'app/core/table_model';
-import { TimeSeries, FieldType, Labels, formatLabels } from '@grafana/data';
+import { TimeSeries, FieldType, Labels, formatLabels, QueryResultMeta } from '@grafana/data';
 import { TemplateSrv } from 'app/features/templating/template_srv';
 
 export class ResultTransformer {
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ export class ResultTransformer {
           prometheusResult,
           options.responseListLength,
           options.refId,
+          options.meta,
           options.valueWithRefId
         ),
       ];
@@ -81,9 +82,16 @@ export class ResultTransformer {
     };
   }
 
-  transformMetricDataToTable(md: any, resultCount: number, refId: string, valueWithRefId?: boolean): TableModel {
+  transformMetricDataToTable(
+    md: any,
+    resultCount: number,
+    refId: string,
+    meta: QueryResultMeta,
+    valueWithRefId?: boolean
+  ): TableModel {
     const table = new TableModel();
     table.refId = refId;
+    table.meta = meta;
 
     let i: number, j: number;
     const metricLabels: { [key: string]: number } = {};