diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/uptime/common/types/index.ts b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/uptime/common/types/index.ts
index 1d0003addd7618..fcbb92caf26d5b 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/uptime/common/types/index.ts
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/uptime/common/types/index.ts
@@ -34,10 +34,4 @@ export interface LocationDurationLine {
 export interface MonitorDurationResult {
   /** The average values for the monitor duration. */
   locationDurationLines: LocationDurationLine[];
-  /** The counts of up/down checks for the monitor. */
-  status: StatusData[];
-  /** The maximum status doc count in this chart. */
-  statusMaxCount: number;
-  /** The maximum duration value in this chart. */
-  durationMaxValue: number;
 }
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/uptime/public/components/functional/charts/__tests__/duration_charts.test.tsx b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/uptime/public/components/functional/charts/__tests__/duration_charts.test.tsx
index aac84c69d8d7b1..57f9ce9abbca6d 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/uptime/public/components/functional/charts/__tests__/duration_charts.test.tsx
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/uptime/public/components/functional/charts/__tests__/duration_charts.test.tsx
@@ -43,21 +43,6 @@ describe('MonitorCharts component', () => {
           ],
         },
       ],
-      status: [
-        { x: 1548697620000, up: 74, down: null, total: 74 },
-        { x: 1548697920000, up: 75, down: null, total: 75 },
-        { x: 1548698220000, up: 75, down: null, total: 75 },
-        { x: 1548698520000, up: 73, down: null, total: 73 },
-        { x: 1548698820000, up: 75, down: null, total: 75 },
-        { x: 1548699120000, up: 74, down: null, total: 74 },
-        { x: 1548699420000, up: 75, down: null, total: 75 },
-        { x: 1548699720000, up: 75, down: null, total: 75 },
-        { x: 1548700020000, up: 75, down: null, total: 75 },
-        { x: 1548700320000, up: 75, down: null, total: 75 },
-        { x: 1548700620000, up: 75, down: null, total: 75 },
-      ],
-      statusMaxCount: 75,
-      durationMaxValue: 6669234,
     },
   };
 
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/uptime/public/state/api/ml_anomaly.ts b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/uptime/public/state/api/ml_anomaly.ts
index bcd2582fe18b92..f10745a50f56a4 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/uptime/public/state/api/ml_anomaly.ts
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/uptime/public/state/api/ml_anomaly.ts
@@ -48,11 +48,8 @@ export const createMLJob = async ({
     query: {
       bool: {
         filter: [
-          {
-            term: {
-              'monitor.id': lowerCaseMonitorId,
-            },
-          },
+          { term: { 'monitor.id': lowerCaseMonitorId } },
+          { range: { 'monitor.duration.us': { gt: 0 } } },
         ],
       },
     },
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/uptime/server/lib/requests/__tests__/__snapshots__/get_monitor_charts.test.ts.snap b/x-pack/plugins/uptime/server/lib/requests/__tests__/__snapshots__/get_monitor_charts.test.ts.snap
index 7b717949c70c52..97b97f84407584 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/uptime/server/lib/requests/__tests__/__snapshots__/get_monitor_charts.test.ts.snap
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/uptime/server/lib/requests/__tests__/__snapshots__/get_monitor_charts.test.ts.snap
@@ -15,13 +15,6 @@ Array [
                     "field": "monitor.duration.us",
                   },
                 },
-                "status": Object {
-                  "terms": Object {
-                    "field": "monitor.status",
-                    "shard_size": 2,
-                    "size": 2,
-                  },
-                },
               },
               "terms": Object {
                 "field": "observer.geo.name",
@@ -55,8 +48,10 @@ Array [
               },
             },
             Object {
-              "term": Object {
-                "monitor.status": "up",
+              "range": Object {
+                "monitor.duration.us": Object {
+                  "gt": 0,
+                },
               },
             },
           ],
@@ -71,7 +66,6 @@ Array [
 
 exports[`ElasticsearchMonitorsAdapter inserts empty buckets for missing data 1`] = `
 Object {
-  "durationMaxValue": 0,
   "locationDurationLines": Array [
     Object {
       "line": Array [
@@ -244,128 +238,5 @@ Object {
       "name": "us-west-4",
     },
   ],
-  "status": Array [
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 4,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568411568000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 0,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568411604000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 8,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568411640000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 8,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568411784000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 0,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568411820000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 0,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568411856000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 0,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568411892000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 4,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568411928000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 7,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568411964000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 5,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568412036000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 4,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568412072000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 3,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568412108000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 4,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568412144000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 4,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568412180000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 3,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568412216000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568412252000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 3,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568412288000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 8,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568412324000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 8,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568412432000,
-    },
-    Object {
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1,
-      "up": null,
-      "x": 1568412468000,
-    },
-  ],
-  "statusMaxCount": 0,
 }
 `;
diff --git a/x-pack/plugins/uptime/server/lib/requests/get_monitor_duration.ts b/x-pack/plugins/uptime/server/lib/requests/get_monitor_duration.ts
index 01bfc52489bf3a..e9c745b0a87133 100644
--- a/x-pack/plugins/uptime/server/lib/requests/get_monitor_duration.ts
+++ b/x-pack/plugins/uptime/server/lib/requests/get_monitor_duration.ts
@@ -20,26 +20,6 @@ export interface GetMonitorChartsParams {
   dateEnd: string;
 }
 
-const formatStatusBuckets = (time: any, buckets: any, docCount: any) => {
-  let up = null;
-  let down = null;
-
-  buckets.forEach((bucket: any) => {
-    if (bucket.key === 'up') {
-      up = bucket.doc_count;
-    } else if (bucket.key === 'down') {
-      down = bucket.doc_count;
-    }
-  });
-
-  return {
-    x: time,
-    up,
-    down,
-    total: docCount,
-  };
-};
-
 /**
  * Fetches data used to populate monitor charts
  */
@@ -55,7 +35,7 @@ export const getMonitorDurationChart: UMElasticsearchQueryFn<
           filter: [
             { range: { '@timestamp': { gte: dateStart, lte: dateEnd } } },
             { term: { 'monitor.id': monitorId } },
-            { term: { 'monitor.status': 'up' } },
+            { range: { 'monitor.duration.us': { gt: 0 } } },
           ],
         },
       },
@@ -73,7 +53,6 @@ export const getMonitorDurationChart: UMElasticsearchQueryFn<
                 missing: 'N/A',
               },
               aggs: {
-                status: { terms: { field: 'monitor.status', size: 2, shard_size: 2 } },
                 duration: { stats: { field: 'monitor.duration.us' } },
               },
             },
@@ -94,15 +73,10 @@ export const getMonitorDurationChart: UMElasticsearchQueryFn<
    *
    * The third list is for an area chart expressing a range, and it requires an (x,y,y0) structure,
    * where y0 is the min value for the point and y is the max.
-   *
-   * Additionally, we supply the maximum value for duration and status, so the corresponding charts know
-   * what the domain size should be.
    */
+
   const monitorChartsData: MonitorDurationResult = {
     locationDurationLines: [],
-    status: [],
-    durationMaxValue: 0,
-    statusMaxCount: 0,
   };
 
   /**
@@ -119,9 +93,9 @@ export const getMonitorDurationChart: UMElasticsearchQueryFn<
   // a set of all the locations found for this result
   const resultLocations = new Set<string>();
   const linesByLocation: { [key: string]: LocationDurationLine } = {};
+
   dateHistogramBuckets.forEach(dateHistogramBucket => {
     const x = dateHistogramBucket.key;
-    const docCount = dateHistogramBucket?.doc_count ?? 0;
     // a set of all the locations for the current bucket
     const bucketLocations = new Set<string>();
 
@@ -161,10 +135,6 @@ export const getMonitorDurationChart: UMElasticsearchQueryFn<
         }
       });
     }
-
-    monitorChartsData.status.push(
-      formatStatusBuckets(x, dateHistogramBucket?.status?.buckets ?? [], docCount)
-    );
   });
 
   return monitorChartsData;
diff --git a/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/uptime/rest/fixtures/monitor_charts.json b/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/uptime/rest/fixtures/monitor_charts.json
index 8edcff158b0ae2..e96b3b3b562b9f 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/uptime/rest/fixtures/monitor_charts.json
+++ b/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/uptime/rest/fixtures/monitor_charts.json
@@ -85,129 +85,5 @@
         }
       ]
     }
-  ],
-  "status": [
-    {
-      "x": 1568172664000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568172694000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568172724000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568172754000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568172784000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568172814000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568172844000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568172874000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568172904000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568172934000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568172964000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568172994000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568173024000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568173054000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568173084000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568173114000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568173144000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568173174000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568173204000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    },
-    {
-      "x": 1568173234000,
-      "up": null,
-      "down": null,
-      "total": 1
-    }
-  ],
-  "durationMaxValue": 0,
-  "statusMaxCount": 0
+  ]
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/uptime/rest/fixtures/monitor_charts_empty_sets.json b/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/uptime/rest/fixtures/monitor_charts_empty_sets.json
index 674338101bc5b5..5157eace006cf3 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/uptime/rest/fixtures/monitor_charts_empty_sets.json
+++ b/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/uptime/rest/fixtures/monitor_charts_empty_sets.json
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
 {
-  "locationDurationLines": [],
-  "status": [],
-  "durationMaxValue": 0,
-  "statusMaxCount": 0
+  "locationDurationLines": []
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/uptime/rest/fixtures/monitor_latest_status.json b/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/uptime/rest/fixtures/monitor_latest_status.json
index 6a832ad8536f7f..9a33be807670ea 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/uptime/rest/fixtures/monitor_latest_status.json
+++ b/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/uptime/rest/fixtures/monitor_latest_status.json
@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@
 {
   "observer": {
-    "geo": { "name": "mpls", "location": "37.926868, -78.024902" },
+    "geo": {
+      "name": "mpls",
+      "location": "37.926868, -78.024902"
+    },
     "hostname": "avc-x1x"
   },
   "@timestamp": "2019-09-11T03:40:34.371Z",
   "monitor": {
-    "duration": { "us": 24627 },
+    "duration": {
+      "us": 24627
+    },
     "ip": "127.0.0.1",
     "name": "",
     "check_group": "d76f0762-d445-11e9-88e3-3e80641b9c71",
@@ -23,4 +28,4 @@
   },
   "docId": "h5toHm0B0I9WX_CznN_V",
   "timestamp": "2019-09-11T03:40:34.371Z"
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file