diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 34c4494..2499285 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,17 @@
 
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
+## 2.9.10
+
+- Bugfix: Account for template variable being a number
+- Chore: update dependabot config (#317)
+- Dependency updates: 
+  - Upgrade grafana-plugin-sdk-go (deps): Bump github.com/grafana/grafana-plugin-sdk-go from 0.251.0 to 0.258.0 in [#314](https://github.com/grafana/timestream-datasource/pull/314),[#315](https://github.com/grafana/timestream-datasource/pull/315), [#319](https://github.com/grafana/timestream-datasource/pull/319)
+  - Updates github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go from 1.51.31 to 1.55.5 in [#319](https://github.com/grafana/timestream-datasource/pull/319)
+  - Updates github.com/grafana/grafana-aws-sdk from 0.31.2 to 0.31.3 in [#319](https://github.com/grafana/timestream-datasource/pull/319)
+  - Updates actions/checkout from 2 to 4 in [#318](https://github.com/grafana/timestream-datasource/pull/318)
+  - Updates tibdex/github-app-token from 1.8.0 to 2.1.0 in [#318](https://github.com/grafana/timestream-datasource/pull/318)
+
 ## 2.9.9
 
 - Fix "Wait for All Queries" toggle in [#313](https://github.com/grafana/timestream-datasource/pull/313)
diff --git a/cspell.config.json b/cspell.config.json
index defb852..ecd029d 100644
--- a/cspell.config.json
+++ b/cspell.config.json
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@
     "otelhttptrace",
     "otelgrpc",
     "sqlutil",
-    "errorsource"
+    "errorsource",
+    "tibdex"
   ]
 }
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 1cb09aa..1f720c2 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "grafana-timestream-datasource",
-  "version": "2.9.9",
+  "version": "2.9.10",
   "description": "Load data timestream in grafana",
   "scripts": {
     "build": "webpack -c ./.config/webpack/webpack.config.ts --env production",
diff --git a/src/DataSource.test.ts b/src/DataSource.test.ts
index 44a5740..ecfd975 100644
--- a/src/DataSource.test.ts
+++ b/src/DataSource.test.ts
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ describe('DataSource', () => {
       expect(res.rawQuery).toEqual(`select * from foo where var in ('foo','bar')`);
     });
 
-    it('should replace __interval interpolated variables with their original string', () => {
+    it('should return number variables', () => {
       mockDatasource.applyTemplateVariables(
         { ...mockQuery, rawQuery: 'select $__interval_ms, $__interval' },
         {
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ describe('DataSource', () => {
         }
       );
       // check rawQuery.replace is called with correct interval value
-      expect(replaceMock.mock.calls[3][1].__interval).toEqual({ value: '$__interval' });
-      expect(replaceMock.mock.calls[3][1].__interval_ms).toEqual({ value: '$__interval_ms' });
+      expect(replaceMock.mock.calls[3][1].__interval).toEqual({ value: 50000 });
+      expect(replaceMock.mock.calls[3][1].__interval_ms).toEqual({ value: 5000000 });
     });
   });
 });
diff --git a/src/DataSource.ts b/src/DataSource.ts
index a82383c..6c8796c 100644
--- a/src/DataSource.ts
+++ b/src/DataSource.ts
@@ -55,11 +55,15 @@ export class DataSource extends DataSourceWithBackend<TimestreamQuery, Timestrea
     return query.rawQuery ?? '';
   }
 
-  private interpolateVariable = (value: string | string[]) => {
+  private interpolateVariable = (value: string | string[] | number) => {
     if (typeof value === 'string') {
       return value;
     }
 
+    if (typeof value === 'number') {
+      return value;
+    }
+
     const quotedValues = value.map((v) => {
       return this.quoteLiteral(v);
     });
@@ -76,14 +80,6 @@ export class DataSource extends DataSourceWithBackend<TimestreamQuery, Timestrea
     }
 
     const variables = { ...scopedVars };
-    // We want to interpolate these variables on backend.
-    // The pre-calculated values are replaced with the variable strings.
-    variables.__interval = {
-      value: '$__interval',
-    };
-    variables.__interval_ms = {
-      value: '$__interval_ms',
-    };
 
     const templateSrv = getTemplateSrv();
     return {