diff --git a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-parallel-coordinates/src/transformProps.ts b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-parallel-coordinates/src/transformProps.ts
index 94a065717ed..dfae55da1a1 100644
--- a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-parallel-coordinates/src/transformProps.ts
+++ b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-parallel-coordinates/src/transformProps.ts
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export default function transformProps(chartProps: ChartProps) {
     includeSeries,
     isDarkMode: isThemeDark(theme),
     linearColorScheme,
-    metrics: metrics.map((m: { label?: string } | string) =>
+    metrics: (metrics ?? []).map((m: { label?: string } | string) =>
       typeof m === 'string' ? m : m.label || m,
     ),
     colorMetric: secondaryMetric?.label || secondaryMetric,
diff --git a/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-parallel-coordinates/test/transformProps.test.ts b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-parallel-coordinates/test/transformProps.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4877295675a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/superset-frontend/plugins/plugin-chart-parallel-coordinates/test/transformProps.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+ * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+ * software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+ * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+ * KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+ * specific language governing permissions and limitations
+ * under the License.
+ */
+
+import { ChartProps } from '@superset-ui/core';
+import transformProps from '../src/transformProps';
+
+const createProps = () =>
+  ({
+    width: 800,
+    height: 600,
+    formData: {
+      includeSeries: false,
+      linearColorScheme: 'superset_seq_1',
+      metrics: undefined,
+      secondaryMetric: 'sum__SP_POP_TOTL',
+      series: 'country_name',
+      showDatatable: false,
+    },
+    queriesData: [{ data: [{ country_id: 'FRA', metric: 10 }] }],
+    theme: {},
+  }) as unknown as ChartProps;
+
+test('do not crash on undefined metrics', () => {
+  expect(() => transformProps(createProps())).not.toThrow();
+});