diff --git a/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/module.ts b/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/module.ts
index 0b8fea1d176..c4b1bd89044 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/module.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/panel/graph/module.ts
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ class GraphCtrl extends MetricsPanelCtrl {
     steppedLine: false,
     // tooltip options
     tooltip       : {
-      value_type: 'cumulative',
+      value_type: 'individual',
       shared: true,
       sort: 0,
       msResolution: false,