diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloudwatch/query-runner/CloudWatchLogsQueryRunner.test.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloudwatch/query-runner/CloudWatchLogsQueryRunner.test.ts
index d6a40c4b89c..b38fd288633 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloudwatch/query-runner/CloudWatchLogsQueryRunner.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloudwatch/query-runner/CloudWatchLogsQueryRunner.test.ts
@@ -76,6 +76,17 @@ describe('CloudWatchLogsQueryRunner', () => {
       });
     });
 
+    it('does not append -logs to the requestId if requestId is not provided', async () => {
+      const { runner, queryMock } = setupMockedLogsQueryRunner();
+
+      const request = {
+        ...LogsRequestMock,
+      };
+      await expect(runner.handleLogQueries(LogsRequestMock.targets, request, queryMock)).toEmitValuesWith(() => {
+        expect(queryMock.mock.calls[0][0].requestId).toEqual('');
+      });
+    });
+
     it('should request to start each query and then request to get the query results', async () => {
       const { runner } = setupMockedLogsQueryRunner();
 
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloudwatch/query-runner/CloudWatchLogsQueryRunner.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloudwatch/query-runner/CloudWatchLogsQueryRunner.ts
index 97ba156b287..0ccc22029c1 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloudwatch/query-runner/CloudWatchLogsQueryRunner.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloudwatch/query-runner/CloudWatchLogsQueryRunner.ts
@@ -415,12 +415,14 @@ export class CloudWatchLogsQueryRunner extends CloudWatchRequest {
     options?: DataQueryRequest<CloudWatchQuery>
   ): Observable<DataQueryResponse> {
     const range = options?.range || getDefaultTimeRange();
+    // append -logs to prevent requestId from matching metric queries from the same panel
+    const requestId = options?.requestId ? `${options?.requestId}-logs` : '';
 
     const requestParams: DataQueryRequest<CloudWatchLogsQuery> = {
       ...options,
       range,
       skipQueryCache: true,
-      requestId: options?.requestId + '-logs' || '', // adding -logs to prevent requestId from matching metric queries from the same panel
+      requestId,
       interval: options?.interval || '', // dummy
       intervalMs: options?.intervalMs || 1, // dummy
       scopedVars: options?.scopedVars || {}, // dummy