diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/query_def.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/query_def.ts
index 56720e80847..43295c6a0fb 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/query_def.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/elasticsearch/query_def.ts
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ export function getMovingAvgSettings(model: any, filtered: boolean) {
 export function getOrderByOptions(target: any) {
   const metricRefs: any[] = [];
   _.each(target.metrics, metric => {
-    if (metric.type !== 'count') {
+    if (metric.type !== 'count' && !isPipelineAgg(metric.type)) {
       metricRefs.push({ text: describeMetric(metric), value: metric.id });
     }
   });