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 5a4b4da2178..7a3f89a2526 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/RuleViewer.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-viewer/RuleViewer.tsx
@@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ import { useRuleGroupConsistencyCheck } from '../../hooks/usePrometheusConsisten
 import { useReturnTo } from '../../hooks/useReturnTo';
 import { PluginOriginBadge } from '../../plugins/PluginOriginBadge';
 import { Annotation } from '../../utils/constants';
-import { ruleIdentifierToRuleSourceIdentifier } from '../../utils/datasource';
+import { getRulesSourceUid, ruleIdentifierToRuleSourceIdentifier } from '../../utils/datasource';
 import { labelsSize } from '../../utils/labels';
 import { makeDashboardLink, makePanelLink, stringifyErrorLike } from '../../utils/misc';
-import { createListFilterLink } from '../../utils/navigation';
+import { createListFilterLink, groups } from '../../utils/navigation';
 import {
   RulePluginOrigin,
   getRulePluginOrigin,
@@ -422,6 +422,11 @@ function usePageNav(rule: CombinedRule) {
   const isGrafanaRecordingRule = rulerRuleType.grafana.recordingRule(rulerRule);
   const isRecordingRuleType = prometheusRuleType.recordingRule(promRule);
 
+  const dataSourceUID = getRulesSourceUid(rule.namespace.rulesSource);
+  const namespaceString = getNamespaceString(rule);
+
+  const groupDetailsUrl = groups.detailsPageLink(dataSourceUID, namespaceString, groupName);
+
   const pageNav: NavModelItem = {
     ...defaultPageNav,
     text: rule.name,
@@ -470,10 +475,7 @@ function usePageNav(rule: CombinedRule) {
     ],
     parentItem: {
       text: groupName,
-      url: createListFilterLink([
-        ['namespace', namespaceName],
-        ['group', groupName],
-      ]),
+      url: groupDetailsUrl,
       // @TODO support nested folders here
       parentItem: {
         text: namespaceName,
@@ -523,4 +525,33 @@ function isValidRunbookURL(url: string) {
   return isRelative || isAbsolute;
 }
 
+function getNamespaceString(rule: CombinedRule): string {
+  // try rule.namespace.uid
+  if (rule.namespace.uid) {
+    return rule.namespace.uid;
+  }
+
+  // if datasource managed, use rule.namespace.name;
+  const isDataSourceManagedRulerRule = rulerRuleType.dataSource.rule(rule.rulerRule);
+  const isDataSourceManagedPromRule =
+    prometheusRuleType.rule(rule.promRule) && !prometheusRuleType.grafana.rule(rule.promRule);
+
+  if (isDataSourceManagedRulerRule || isDataSourceManagedPromRule) {
+    return rule.namespace.name;
+  }
+
+  // try rulerRule definition if grafana ruler rule;
+  if (rulerRuleType.grafana.rule(rule.rulerRule)) {
+    return rule.rulerRule?.grafana_alert.namespace_uid;
+  }
+
+  // try promRule definition if grafana prom rule;
+  if (prometheusRuleType.grafana.rule(rule.promRule)) {
+    return rule.promRule.folderUid;
+  }
+
+  // fell back to whatever the name is of the namespace assigned to the combined rule
+  return rule.namespace.name;
+}
+
 export default RuleViewer;