diff --git a/brian_dashboard_manager/templating/templates/shared/panel_target.json.j2 b/brian_dashboard_manager/templating/templates/shared/panel_target.json.j2
index 3492a7dcd3d2afa0732d0c47848d2f010dd6ce80..14b35ed1b1ca47d0f9232c4ca33503bb81816105 100644
--- a/brian_dashboard_manager/templating/templates/shared/panel_target.json.j2
+++ b/brian_dashboard_manager/templating/templates/shared/panel_target.json.j2
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
         {% if not percentile %}
             {
                 "params": [],
-                "type": "mean"
+                "type": "max"
             }
         {% else %}
             {
diff --git a/changelog.md b/changelog.md
index d3b47cc73ec32829152af5e17270c5dff47afc9d..158d06809f40584571c40286df80db5b4c260394 100644
--- a/changelog.md
+++ b/changelog.md
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## [0.51] - 2023-03-08
+- Changed panel selections to use `max` rather than `mean` with `$__interval`
+
 ## [0.50] - 2023-03-08
 - Changed group by size from '5m' to '$__interval' globally
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3c3ccd6405c8b373a78e8c18cdb1859c279dd5d9..0f3bef7d5ff704249732a134beff5d1b3e2edcae 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 setup(
     name='brian-dashboard-manager',
-    version="0.50",
+    version="0.51",
     author='GEANT',
     author_email='swd@geant.org',
     description='',