diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-pyroscope-datasource/datasource.test.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-pyroscope-datasource/datasource.test.ts
index f11c4ebc9bb..3d722b5b343 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-pyroscope-datasource/datasource.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-pyroscope-datasource/datasource.test.ts
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-import { AbstractLabelOperator, DataSourceInstanceSettings, PluginMetaInfo, PluginType } from '@grafana/data';
+import { AbstractLabelOperator, CoreApp, DataSourceInstanceSettings, PluginMetaInfo, PluginType } from '@grafana/data';
 import { TemplateSrv } from 'app/features/templating/template_srv';
 
 import { defaultPhlareQueryType } from './dataquery.gen';
-import { PhlareDataSource } from './datasource';
+import { normalizeQuery, PhlareDataSource } from './datasource';
+import { Query } from './types';
 
 describe('Phlare data source', () => {
   let ds: PhlareDataSource;
@@ -79,6 +80,42 @@ describe('Phlare data source', () => {
   });
 });
 
+describe('normalizeQuery', () => {
+  it('correctly normalizes the query', () => {
+    // We need the type assertion here because the query types are inherently wrong in explore.
+    let normalized = normalizeQuery({} as Query);
+    expect(normalized).toMatchObject({
+      labelSelector: '{}',
+      groupBy: [],
+      queryType: 'profile',
+    });
+
+    normalized = normalizeQuery({
+      labelSelector: '{app="myapp"}',
+      groupBy: ['app'],
+      queryType: 'metrics',
+      profileTypeId: 'cpu',
+      refId: '',
+    });
+    expect(normalized).toMatchObject({
+      labelSelector: '{app="myapp"}',
+      groupBy: ['app'],
+      queryType: 'metrics',
+      profileTypeId: 'cpu',
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('correctly normalizes the query when in explore', () => {
+    // We need the type assertion here because the query types are inherently wrong in explore.
+    const normalized = normalizeQuery({} as Query, CoreApp.Explore);
+    expect(normalized).toMatchObject({
+      labelSelector: '{}',
+      groupBy: [],
+      queryType: 'both',
+    });
+  });
+});
+
 const defaultQuery = (query: string) => {
   return {
     refId: 'x',
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-pyroscope-datasource/datasource.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-pyroscope-datasource/datasource.ts
index 3d5fe90b365..935ccee324e 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-pyroscope-datasource/datasource.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-pyroscope-datasource/datasource.ts
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ export const defaultQuery: Partial<Query> = {
 };
 
 export function normalizeQuery(query: Query, app?: CoreApp | string) {
-  let normalized = { ...query, ...defaultQuery };
+  let normalized = { ...defaultQuery, ...query };
   if (app !== CoreApp.Explore && normalized.queryType === 'both') {
     // In dashboards and other places, we can't show both types of graphs at the same time.
     // This will also be a default when having 'both' query and adding it from explore to dashboard