diff --git a/public/app/features/search/page/components/FolderView.tsx b/public/app/features/search/page/components/FolderView.tsx
index 1b236143c5b..5a7c69d17e1 100644
--- a/public/app/features/search/page/components/FolderView.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/search/page/components/FolderView.tsx
@@ -46,9 +46,12 @@ export const FolderView = ({
     }
     folders.push({ title: 'General', url: '/dashboards', kind: 'folder', uid: GENERAL_FOLDER_UID });
 
-    const rsp = await getGrafanaSearcher().search({
+    const searcher = getGrafanaSearcher();
+    const rsp = await searcher.search({
       query: '*',
       kind: ['folder'],
+      sort: searcher.getFolderViewSort(),
+      limit: 1000,
     });
     for (const row of rsp.view) {
       folders.push({
diff --git a/public/app/features/search/service/bluge.ts b/public/app/features/search/service/bluge.ts
index bdeb9a7ecc5..7dce0584bfb 100644
--- a/public/app/features/search/service/bluge.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/search/service/bluge.ts
@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ type SearchAPIResponse = {
   frames: DataFrameJSON[];
 };
 
+const folderViewSort = 'name_sort';
+
 export class BlugeSearcher implements GrafanaSearcher {
   constructor(private fallbackSearcher: GrafanaSearcher) {}
 
@@ -75,7 +77,7 @@ export class BlugeSearcher implements GrafanaSearcher {
   // This should eventually be filled by an API call, but hardcoded is a good start
   getSortOptions(): Promise<SelectableValue[]> {
     const opts: SelectableValue[] = [
-      { value: 'name_sort', label: 'Alphabetically (A-Z)' },
+      { value: folderViewSort, label: 'Alphabetically (A-Z)' },
       { value: '-name_sort', label: 'Alphabetically (Z-A)' },
     ];
 
@@ -199,6 +201,10 @@ export class BlugeSearcher implements GrafanaSearcher {
       },
     };
   }
+
+  getFolderViewSort(): string {
+    return 'name_sort';
+  }
 }
 
 const firstPageSize = 50;
diff --git a/public/app/features/search/service/frontend.ts b/public/app/features/search/service/frontend.ts
index 26aa066d6e1..868651e48c8 100644
--- a/public/app/features/search/service/frontend.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/search/service/frontend.ts
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ export class FrontendSearcher implements GrafanaSearcher {
   async tags(query: SearchQuery): Promise<TermCount[]> {
     return this.parent.tags(query);
   }
+
+  getFolderViewSort(): string {
+    return this.parent.getFolderViewSort();
+  }
 }
 
 class FullResultCache {
diff --git a/public/app/features/search/service/sql.ts b/public/app/features/search/service/sql.ts
index f53a7190816..259ba392c30 100644
--- a/public/app/features/search/service/sql.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/search/service/sql.ts
@@ -224,4 +224,9 @@ export class SQLSearcher implements GrafanaSearcher {
       isItemLoaded: (index: number): boolean => true,
     };
   }
+
+  getFolderViewSort = () => {
+    // sorts alphabetically in memory after retrieving the folders from the database
+    return '';
+  };
 }
diff --git a/public/app/features/search/service/types.ts b/public/app/features/search/service/types.ts
index 282772f4777..dbf0518345e 100644
--- a/public/app/features/search/service/types.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/search/service/types.ts
@@ -71,4 +71,7 @@ export interface GrafanaSearcher {
   starred: (query: SearchQuery) => Promise<QueryResponse>;
   tags: (query: SearchQuery) => Promise<TermCount[]>;
   getSortOptions: () => Promise<SelectableValue[]>;
+
+  /** Gets the default sort used for the Folder view */
+  getFolderViewSort: () => string;
 }