diff --git a/ui/src/features/common/analysis-modal/transforms.test.ts b/ui/src/features/common/analysis-modal/transforms.test.ts
index e3750a498f..e2716d5db4 100644
--- a/ui/src/features/common/analysis-modal/transforms.test.ts
+++ b/ui/src/features/common/analysis-modal/transforms.test.ts
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ import {
   metricStatusLabel,
   metricSubstatus,
   printableCloudWatchQuery,
-  printableDatadogQuery
+  printableDatadogQuery,
+  transformMeasurements
 } from './transforms';
 import { AnalysisStatus, FunctionalStatus } from './types';
 
@@ -559,4 +560,15 @@ describe('analysis modal transforms', () => {
       tableValue: { latency: null, cpuUsage: null }
     });
   });
+
+  test('transformMeasurements() with a non-JSON string measurement value', () => {
+    // a provider may return a plain string (e.g. "kargo") that is not valid JSON;
+    // this should not throw -- the value is placed in the table as-is
+    expect(transformMeasurements([], [{ value: 'kargo' }])).toEqual({
+      chartable: false,
+      min: 0,
+      max: null,
+      measurements: [{ value: 'kargo', chartValue: null, tableValue: 'kargo' }]
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/ui/src/features/common/analysis-modal/transforms.ts b/ui/src/features/common/analysis-modal/transforms.ts
index 046ef4f86e..689c1aa893 100644
--- a/ui/src/features/common/analysis-modal/transforms.ts
+++ b/ui/src/features/common/analysis-modal/transforms.ts
@@ -783,7 +783,17 @@ const transformMeasurementValue = (
     };
   }
 
-  const parsedValue = JSON.parse(value);
+  let parsedValue;
+  try {
+    parsedValue = JSON.parse(value);
+  } catch {
+    // value is a plain string (not JSON) -- not chartable
+    return {
+      canChart: false,
+      chartValue: null,
+      tableValue: value
+    };
+  }
 
   // single number measurement value
   if (isFiniteNumber(parsedValue)) {