diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/CentralHistoryRuntimeDataSource.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/CentralHistoryRuntimeDataSource.ts
index bab7a40e855..f6b76f5e00a 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/CentralHistoryRuntimeDataSource.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/CentralHistoryRuntimeDataSource.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import { stateHistoryApi } from '../../../api/stateHistoryApi';
 import { DataSourceInformation } from '../../../home/Insights';
 
 import { LIMIT_EVENTS } from './EventListSceneObject';
-import { historyResultToDataFrame } from './utils';
+import { historyResultToDataFrame, parseBackendLabelFilters } from './utils';
 
 const historyDataSourceUid = '__history_api_ds_uid__';
 const historyDataSourcePluginId = '__history_api_ds_pluginId__';
@@ -65,7 +65,9 @@ class HistoryAPIDatasource extends RuntimeDataSource<HistoryAPIQuery> {
     const stateTo = templateSrv.replace(query.stateTo ?? '', request.scopedVars);
     const stateFrom = templateSrv.replace(query.stateFrom ?? '', request.scopedVars);
 
-    const historyResult = await getHistory(from, to);
+    const labelFilters = parseBackendLabelFilters(labels);
+
+    const historyResult = await getHistory(from, to, labelFilters);
 
     return {
       data: historyResultToDataFrame(historyResult, { stateTo, stateFrom, labels }),
@@ -85,15 +87,17 @@ class HistoryAPIDatasource extends RuntimeDataSource<HistoryAPIQuery> {
  * Fetch the history events from the history api.
  * @param from the start time
  * @param to the end time
- * @returns the history events only filtered by time
+ * @param labels optional label filters for backend filtering
+ * @returns the history events filtered by time and labels
  */
-export const getHistory = (from: number, to: number) => {
+export const getHistory = (from: number, to: number, labels?: Record<string, string>) => {
   return dispatch(
     stateHistoryApi.endpoints.getRuleHistory.initiate(
       {
         from: from,
         to: to,
         limit: LIMIT_EVENTS,
+        labels: labels,
       },
       {
         forceRefetch: Boolean(getTimeSrv().getAutoRefreshInteval().interval), // force refetch in case we are using the refresh option
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/EventListSceneObject.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/EventListSceneObject.tsx
index c8fd1eb751b..4f83a7aec0f 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/EventListSceneObject.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/EventListSceneObject.tsx
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ import { AITriageButtonComponent } from '../../../enterprise-components/AI/AIGen
 import { usePagination } from '../../../hooks/usePagination';
 import { combineMatcherStrings } from '../../../utils/alertmanager';
 import { GRAFANA_RULES_SOURCE_NAME } from '../../../utils/datasource';
-import { parsePromQLStyleMatcherLooseSafe } from '../../../utils/matchers';
 import { createRelativeUrl } from '../../../utils/url';
 import { AlertLabels } from '../../AlertLabels';
 import { CollapseToggle } from '../../CollapseToggle';
@@ -39,6 +38,7 @@ import { LABELS_FILTER, STATE_FILTER_FROM, STATE_FILTER_TO } from './CentralAler
 import { EventDetails } from './EventDetails';
 import { HistoryErrorMessage } from './HistoryErrorMessage';
 import { useRuleHistoryRecords } from './useRuleHistoryRecords';
+import { parseBackendLabelFilters } from './utils';
 
 export const LIMIT_EVENTS = 5000; // limit is hard-capped at 5000 at the BE level.
 const PAGE_SIZE = 100;
@@ -66,16 +66,7 @@ export const HistoryEventsList = ({
   const from = timeRange?.from.unix();
   const to = timeRange?.to.unix();
 
-  const labelMatchers = parsePromQLStyleMatcherLooseSafe(valueInLabelFilter.toString());
-
-  // Prepare labels for filtering on the backend side.
-  // Backend supports only exact matchers.
-  const labelFilters: Record<string, string> = {};
-  labelMatchers.forEach((matcher) => {
-    if (!matcher.isRegex && matcher.isEqual) {
-      labelFilters[matcher.name] = matcher.value;
-    }
-  });
+  const labelFilters = parseBackendLabelFilters(valueInLabelFilter.toString());
 
   const {
     data: stateHistory,
@@ -86,7 +77,7 @@ export const HistoryEventsList = ({
     from: from,
     to: to,
     limit: LIMIT_EVENTS,
-    labels: Object.keys(labelFilters).length > 0 ? labelFilters : undefined,
+    labels: labelFilters,
   });
 
   const { historyRecords: historyRecordsNotSorted } = useRuleHistoryRecords(stateHistory, {
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/HistoryEventsList.test.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/HistoryEventsList.test.tsx
index 1dea299dd2e..d538fc8b0c2 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/HistoryEventsList.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/HistoryEventsList.test.tsx
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import { setupMswServer } from '../../../mockApi';
 import { captureRequests } from '../../../mocks/server/events';
 
 import { StateFilterValues } from './CentralAlertHistoryScene';
+import { getHistory } from './CentralHistoryRuntimeDataSource';
 import { HistoryEventsList } from './EventListSceneObject';
 
 setupMswServer();
@@ -178,5 +179,25 @@ describe('HistoryEventsList', () => {
       expect(url.searchParams.get('labels_grafana_folder')).toBeNull();
       expect(url.searchParams.get('labels_severity')).toBeNull();
     });
+
+    it('should apply same backend filtering to chart data via getHistory function', async () => {
+      const capture = captureRequests((req) => req.url.includes('/api/v1/rules/history'));
+
+      const from = 123;
+      const to = 456;
+      const labels = { alertname: 'alert_1', team: 'alerting' };
+
+      await getHistory(from, to, labels);
+
+      const requests = await capture;
+      expect(requests).toHaveLength(1);
+
+      const url = new URL(requests[0].url);
+
+      expect(url.searchParams.get('labels_alertname')).toBe(labels.alertname);
+      expect(url.searchParams.get('labels_team')).toBe(labels.team);
+      expect(url.searchParams.get('from')).toBe(from.toString());
+      expect(url.searchParams.get('to')).toBe(to.toString());
+    });
   });
 });
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/utils.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/utils.ts
index a629b03dfb2..aaa7ea4830e 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/utils.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rules/central-state-history/utils.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,23 @@ import { LABELS_FILTER, STATE_FILTER_FROM, STATE_FILTER_TO, StateFilterValues }
 const GROUPING_INTERVAL = 10 * 1000; // 10 seconds
 const QUERY_PARAM_PREFIX = 'var-'; // Prefix used by Grafana to sync variables in the URL
 
+/**
+ * Parse label filters and prepare backend filters.
+ * Backend supports only exact matchers.
+ */
+export function parseBackendLabelFilters(labelFilter: string): Record<string, string> {
+  const labelMatchers = parsePromQLStyleMatcherLooseSafe(labelFilter);
+  const labelFilters: Record<string, string> = {};
+
+  labelMatchers.forEach((matcher) => {
+    if (!matcher.isRegex && matcher.isEqual) {
+      labelFilters[matcher.name] = matcher.value;
+    }
+  });
+
+  return labelFilters;
+}
+
 interface HistoryFilters {
   stateTo: string;
   stateFrom: string;