diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/annotations.test.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/annotations.test.ts
index ca52b08ca65..183c103f58c 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/annotations.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/annotations.test.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,17 @@
 import '@grafana/runtime';
-import { fetchAnnotations } from './annotations';
+import { fetchAnnotations, sortStateHistory } from './annotations';
+import { StateHistoryItem } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
 
-const get = jest.fn();
+const get = jest.fn(() => {
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    resolve(undefined);
+  });
+});
 
 jest.mock('@grafana/runtime', () => ({
-  getBackendSrv: () => ({ get }),
+  getBackendSrv: () => ({
+    get,
+  }),
 }));
 
 describe('annotations', () => {
@@ -16,3 +23,41 @@ describe('annotations', () => {
     expect(get).toBeCalledWith('/api/annotations', { alertId: ALERT_ID });
   });
 });
+
+describe(sortStateHistory, () => {
+  describe('should stably sort', () => {
+    describe('when timeEnd is different', () => {
+      it('should not sort by rule id', () => {
+        let data: StateHistoryItem[] = [
+          { timeEnd: 23, time: 22, id: 1 } as StateHistoryItem,
+          { timeEnd: 22, time: 21, id: 3 } as StateHistoryItem,
+          { timeEnd: 22, time: 22, id: 2 } as StateHistoryItem,
+          { timeEnd: 24, id: 3 } as StateHistoryItem,
+        ];
+
+        data.sort(sortStateHistory);
+        expect(data[0].timeEnd).toBe(24);
+        expect(data[1].timeEnd).toBe(23);
+        expect(data[2].time).toBe(22);
+        expect(data[3].id).toBe(3);
+      });
+    });
+
+    describe('when only the rule id is different', () => {
+      it('should sort by rule id', () => {
+        let data: StateHistoryItem[] = [
+          { timeEnd: 23, time: 22, id: 1 } as StateHistoryItem,
+          { timeEnd: 23, time: 22, id: 3 } as StateHistoryItem,
+          { timeEnd: 23, time: 22, id: 2 } as StateHistoryItem,
+          { timeEnd: 23, time: 22, id: 6 } as StateHistoryItem,
+        ];
+
+        data.sort(sortStateHistory);
+        expect(data[0].id).toBe(6);
+        expect(data[1].id).toBe(3);
+        expect(data[2].id).toBe(2);
+        expect(data[3].id).toBe(1);
+      });
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/annotations.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/annotations.ts
index 2df5ee2cacd..39195dc1f48 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/annotations.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/api/annotations.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,37 @@ import { getBackendSrv } from '@grafana/runtime';
 import { StateHistoryItem } from 'app/types/unified-alerting';
 
 export function fetchAnnotations(alertId: string): Promise<StateHistoryItem[]> {
-  return getBackendSrv().get('/api/annotations', {
-    alertId,
-  });
+  return getBackendSrv()
+    .get('/api/annotations', {
+      alertId,
+    })
+    .then((result) => {
+      return result?.sort(sortStateHistory);
+    });
+}
+
+export function sortStateHistory(a: StateHistoryItem, b: StateHistoryItem): number {
+  const compareDesc = (a: number, b: number): number => {
+    // Larger numbers first.
+    if (a > b) {
+      return -1;
+    }
+
+    if (b > a) {
+      return 1;
+    }
+    return 0;
+  };
+
+  const endNeq = compareDesc(a.timeEnd, b.timeEnd);
+  if (endNeq) {
+    return endNeq;
+  }
+
+  const timeNeq = compareDesc(a.time, b.time);
+  if (timeNeq) {
+    return timeNeq;
+  }
+
+  return compareDesc(a.id, b.id);
 }