diff --git a/public/components/trace_analytics/components/common/helper_functions.tsx b/public/components/trace_analytics/components/common/helper_functions.tsx
index 9ff79dcb0..f74864ce5 100644
--- a/public/components/trace_analytics/components/common/helper_functions.tsx
+++ b/public/components/trace_analytics/components/common/helper_functions.tsx
@@ -214,8 +214,11 @@ export function getServiceMapGraph(
   idSelected: 'latency' | 'error_rate' | 'throughput',
   ticks: number[],
   currService?: string,
+  relatedServices?: string[],
   filterByCurrService?: boolean
 ) {
+  if (!relatedServices) relatedServices = Object.keys(map);
+
   const nodes = Object.keys(map).map((service) => {
     const value = map[service][idSelected];
     let styleOptions;
diff --git a/public/components/trace_analytics/components/common/plots/service_map.tsx b/public/components/trace_analytics/components/common/plots/service_map.tsx
index 087ad38ae..f75f1e840 100644
--- a/public/components/trace_analytics/components/common/plots/service_map.tsx
+++ b/public/components/trace_analytics/components/common/plots/service_map.tsx
@@ -301,6 +301,7 @@ export function ServiceMap({
             idSelected,
             ticks,
             undefined,
+            undefined,
             false // Show the entire graph without filtering
           )
         );
@@ -314,6 +315,7 @@ export function ServiceMap({
           idSelected,
           ticks,
           service,
+          serviceMap[service]?.relatedServices,
           true // Enable filtering to focus on connected nodes
         );
         setItems(filteredGraph);