diff --git a/public/app/plugins/panel/heatmap/axes_editor.ts b/public/app/plugins/panel/heatmap/axes_editor.ts
index 81df957e2ea..cec3df9f8c5 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/panel/heatmap/axes_editor.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/panel/heatmap/axes_editor.ts
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ export class AxesEditorCtrl {
       Auto: 'auto',
       Upper: 'upper',
       Lower: 'lower',
+      Middle: 'middle',
     };
   }
 
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/panel/heatmap/heatmap_tooltip.ts b/public/app/plugins/panel/heatmap/heatmap_tooltip.ts
index c447825eef8..90cbecd6657 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/panel/heatmap/heatmap_tooltip.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/panel/heatmap/heatmap_tooltip.ts
@@ -114,7 +114,9 @@ export class HeatmapTooltip {
           };
 
           boundBottom = tickFormatter(yBucketIndex);
-          boundTop = yBucketIndex < data.tsBuckets.length - 1 ? tickFormatter(yBucketIndex + 1) : '';
+          if (this.panel.yBucketBound !== 'middle') {
+            boundTop = yBucketIndex < data.tsBuckets.length - 1 ? tickFormatter(yBucketIndex + 1) : '';
+          }
         } else {
           // Display 0 if bucket is a special 'zero' bucket
           const bottom = yData.y ? yData.bounds.bottom : 0;
@@ -122,8 +124,9 @@ export class HeatmapTooltip {
           boundTop = bucketBoundFormatter(yData.bounds.top);
         }
         valuesNumber = countValueFormatter(yData.count);
+        const boundStr = boundTop && boundBottom ? `${boundBottom} - ${boundTop}` : boundBottom || boundTop;
         tooltipHtml += `<div>
-          bucket: <b>${boundBottom} - ${boundTop}</b> <br>
+          bucket: <b>${boundStr}</b> <br>
           count: <b>${valuesNumber}</b> <br>
         </div>`;
       } else {
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/panel/heatmap/rendering.ts b/public/app/plugins/panel/heatmap/rendering.ts
index 42b418b06cb..a4649428722 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/panel/heatmap/rendering.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/panel/heatmap/rendering.ts
@@ -379,6 +379,12 @@ export class HeatmapRenderer {
     const posX = this.getYAxisWidth(this.heatmap) + Y_AXIS_TICK_PADDING;
     this.heatmap.select('.axis-y').attr('transform', 'translate(' + posX + ',' + posY + ')');
 
+    if (this.panel.yBucketBound === 'middle' && tickValues && tickValues.length) {
+      // Shift Y axis labels to the middle of bucket
+      const tickShift = 0 - this.chartHeight / (tickValues.length - 1) / 2;
+      this.heatmap.selectAll('.axis-y text').attr('transform', 'translate(' + 0 + ',' + tickShift + ')');
+    }
+
     // Remove vertical line in the right of axis labels (called domain in d3)
     this.heatmap
       .select('.axis-y')