diff --git a/packages/grafana-data/src/types/config.ts b/packages/grafana-data/src/types/config.ts
index 1cf37071e23..0af05583faa 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-data/src/types/config.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-data/src/types/config.ts
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ export interface UnifiedAlertingConfig {
   alertStateHistoryBackend?: string;
   // will be undefined if implementation is not "multiple"
   alertStateHistoryPrimary?: string;
+  grafanaRecordingRulesUrl?: string;
 }
 
 /** Supported OAuth services
diff --git a/packages/grafana-runtime/src/config.ts b/packages/grafana-runtime/src/config.ts
index f92f4023bf0..421eb5b2826 100644
--- a/packages/grafana-runtime/src/config.ts
+++ b/packages/grafana-runtime/src/config.ts
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ export class GrafanaBootConfig implements GrafanaConfig {
     minInterval: '',
     alertStateHistoryBackend: undefined,
     alertStateHistoryPrimary: undefined,
+    grafanaRecordingRulesUrl: undefined,
   };
   applicationInsightsConnectionString?: string;
   applicationInsightsEndpointUrl?: string;
diff --git a/pkg/api/dtos/frontend_settings.go b/pkg/api/dtos/frontend_settings.go
index c93e00cea0f..1d5e1aa1fff 100644
--- a/pkg/api/dtos/frontend_settings.go
+++ b/pkg/api/dtos/frontend_settings.go
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ type FrontendSettingsUnifiedAlertingDTO struct {
 	MinInterval              string `json:"minInterval"`
 	AlertStateHistoryBackend string `json:"alertStateHistoryBackend,omitempty"`
 	AlertStateHistoryPrimary string `json:"alertStateHistoryPrimary,omitempty"`
+	GrafanaRecordingRulesUrl string `json:"grafanaRecordingRulesUrl,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // Enterprise-only
diff --git a/pkg/api/frontendsettings.go b/pkg/api/frontendsettings.go
index 9bf8c35ef75..c511cae816e 100644
--- a/pkg/api/frontendsettings.go
+++ b/pkg/api/frontendsettings.go
@@ -329,6 +329,9 @@ func (hs *HTTPServer) getFrontendSettings(c *contextmodel.ReqContext) (*dtos.Fro
 	if hs.Cfg.UnifiedAlerting.Enabled != nil {
 		frontendSettings.UnifiedAlertingEnabled = *hs.Cfg.UnifiedAlerting.Enabled
 	}
+	if hs.Cfg.UnifiedAlerting.RecordingRules.Enabled {
+		frontendSettings.UnifiedAlerting.GrafanaRecordingRulesUrl = hs.Cfg.UnifiedAlerting.RecordingRules.URL
+	}
 
 	// It returns false if the provider is not enabled or the skip org role sync is false.
 	parseSkipOrgRoleSyncEnabled := func(info *social.OAuthInfo) bool {
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/RuleViewer.tsx b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/RuleViewer.tsx
index 3f71b0b9e95..4555f4a6063 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/RuleViewer.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/RuleViewer.tsx
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { chain, isEmpty, truncate } from 'lodash';
 import { useState } from 'react';
 
 import { NavModelItem, UrlQueryValue } from '@grafana/data';
+import { config } from '@grafana/runtime';
 import { Alert, LinkButton, Stack, TabContent, Text, TextLink, useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
 import { PageInfoItem } from 'app/core/components/Page/types';
 import { useQueryParams } from 'app/core/hooks/useQueryParams';
@@ -13,6 +14,7 @@ import { PromAlertingRuleState, PromRuleType } from 'app/types/unified-alerting-
 
 import { defaultPageNav } from '../../RuleViewer';
 import { PluginOriginBadge } from '../../plugins/PluginOriginBadge';
+import { getAllDataSources } from '../../utils/config';
 import { Annotation } from '../../utils/constants';
 import { makeDashboardLink, makePanelLink } from '../../utils/misc';
 import {
@@ -195,10 +197,41 @@ const createMetadata = (rule: CombinedRule): PageInfoItem[] => {
   }
   if (isGrafanaRecordingRule(rule.rulerRule)) {
     const metric = rule.rulerRule?.grafana_alert.record?.metric ?? '';
-    metadata.push({
-      label: 'Metric name',
-      value: <Text color="primary">{metric}</Text>,
-    });
+
+    const dSWithRecordingRulesUrl = getDataSourceForRecordingRules();
+
+    if (dSWithRecordingRulesUrl) {
+      // if we have a datasource with recording rules, we can link to explore with the datasource and metric in the query
+      const exploreLink = createRelativeUrl('/explore', {
+        left: JSON.stringify({
+          datasource: dSWithRecordingRulesUrl.uid,
+          queries: [
+            {
+              refId: 'A',
+              datasource: { type: dSWithRecordingRulesUrl.type, uid: dSWithRecordingRulesUrl.uid },
+              expr: `${metric}{}`,
+            },
+          ],
+          range: { from: 'now-1h', to: 'now' },
+        }),
+      });
+
+      metadata.push({
+        label: 'Metric name',
+        value: (
+          <TextLink variant="bodySmall" href={exploreLink} external>
+            {metric}
+          </TextLink>
+        ),
+      });
+    } else {
+      // if we don't have a datasource with recording rules, we can just show the metric name
+      // this can happen if the datasource with the url specified in the config is not added as a datasource in Grafana
+      metadata.push({
+        label: 'Metric name',
+        value: <Text color="primary">{metric}</Text>,
+      });
+    }
   }
 
   if (interval) {
@@ -219,6 +252,12 @@ const createMetadata = (rule: CombinedRule): PageInfoItem[] => {
   return metadata;
 };
 
+function getDataSourceForRecordingRules() {
+  const urlForRecordingRules = config.unifiedAlerting.grafanaRecordingRulesUrl;
+  const allDs = getAllDataSources();
+  return allDs.find((ds) => ds.url === urlForRecordingRules);
+}
+
 // TODO move somewhere else
 export const createListFilterLink = (values: Array<[string, string]>) => {
   const params = new URLSearchParams([['search', values.map(([key, value]) => `${key}:"${value}"`).join(' ')]]);