diff --git a/public/app/core/logsModel.test.ts b/public/app/core/logsModel.test.ts
index f961a6d0630..aa4d74d1e41 100644
--- a/public/app/core/logsModel.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/core/logsModel.test.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import {
   LogsDedupStrategy,
   LogsMetaKind,
   MutableDataFrame,
+  sortDataFrame,
   toDataFrame,
 } from '@grafana/data';
 
@@ -1260,14 +1261,14 @@ describe('logs sample', () => {
   const resultAFrame1 = createFrame([{ app: 'app01' }], [100, 200, 300], ['line 1', 'line 2', 'line 3']);
   const resultAFrame2 = createFrame(
     [{ app: 'app01', level: 'error' }],
-    [100, 200, 300],
+    [400, 500, 600],
     ['line 4', 'line 5', 'line 6']
   );
 
-  const resultBFrame1 = createFrame([{ app: 'app02' }], [100, 200, 300], ['line A', 'line B', 'line C']);
+  const resultBFrame1 = createFrame([{ app: 'app02' }], [700, 800, 900], ['line A', 'line B', 'line C']);
   const resultBFrame2 = createFrame(
     [{ app: 'app02', level: 'error' }],
-    [100, 200, 300],
+    [1000, 1100, 1200],
     ['line D', 'line E', 'line F']
   );
 
@@ -1277,7 +1278,7 @@ describe('logs sample', () => {
         data: [resultAFrame1, resultAFrame2],
       },
       {
-        data: [resultBFrame1, resultBFrame2],
+        data: [resultBFrame1, resultBFrame2, resultAFrame1, resultAFrame2],
       },
     ]);
   }
@@ -1289,14 +1290,17 @@ describe('logs sample', () => {
   it('returns data', async () => {
     setup(setupMultipleResults);
     await expect(logsSampleProvider).toEmitValuesWith((received) => {
-      expect(received).toMatchObject([
-        { state: LoadingState.Loading, error: undefined, data: [] },
-        {
-          state: LoadingState.Done,
-          error: undefined,
-          data: [resultAFrame1, resultAFrame2, resultBFrame1, resultBFrame2],
-        },
-      ]);
+      expect(received).toContainEqual({ state: LoadingState.Loading, error: undefined, data: [] });
+      expect(received).toContainEqual(
+        expect.objectContaining({
+          data: expect.arrayContaining([
+            sortDataFrame(resultAFrame1, 0),
+            sortDataFrame(resultAFrame2, 0),
+            sortDataFrame(resultBFrame1, 0),
+            sortDataFrame(resultBFrame2, 0),
+          ]),
+        })
+      );
     });
   });
 
diff --git a/public/app/core/logsModel.ts b/public/app/core/logsModel.ts
index c3ea25df244..2754e98516d 100644
--- a/public/app/core/logsModel.ts
+++ b/public/app/core/logsModel.ts
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import {
   FieldWithIndex,
   findCommonLabels,
   findUniqueLabels,
+  getTimeField,
   Labels,
   LoadingState,
   LogLevel,
@@ -29,6 +30,7 @@ import {
   MutableDataFrame,
   rangeUtil,
   ScopedVars,
+  sortDataFrame,
   textUtil,
   TimeRange,
   toDataFrame,
@@ -40,6 +42,7 @@ import { ansicolor, colors } from '@grafana/ui';
 import { getThemeColor } from 'app/core/utils/colors';
 
 import { getLogLevel, getLogLevelFromKey, sortInAscendingOrder } from '../features/logs/utils';
+
 export const LIMIT_LABEL = 'Line limit';
 export const COMMON_LABELS = 'Common labels';
 
@@ -788,7 +791,11 @@ export function queryLogsSample<TQuery extends DataQuery, TOptions extends DataS
           });
           observer.error(error);
         } else {
-          rawLogsSample = rawLogsSample.concat(dataQueryResponse.data.map(toDataFrame));
+          rawLogsSample = dataQueryResponse.data.map((dataFrame) => {
+            const frame = toDataFrame(dataFrame);
+            const { timeIndex } = getTimeField(frame);
+            return sortDataFrame(frame, timeIndex);
+          });
         }
       },
       error: (error) => {
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/datasource.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/datasource.ts
index 7e01a0ff6e3..88a8e9976bd 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/datasource.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/datasource.ts
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ import {
   isLogsQuery,
   isValidQuery,
 } from './queryUtils';
-import { sortDataFrameByTime } from './sortDataFrame';
+import { sortDataFrameByTime, SortDirection } from './sortDataFrame';
 import { doLokiChannelStream } from './streaming';
 import { trackQuery } from './tracking';
 import {
@@ -677,7 +677,7 @@ export class LokiDatasource
     const processResults = (result: DataQueryResponse): DataQueryResponse => {
       const frames: DataFrame[] = result.data;
       const processedFrames = frames
-        .map((frame) => sortDataFrameByTime(frame, 'DESCENDING'))
+        .map((frame) => sortDataFrameByTime(frame, SortDirection.Descending))
         .map((frame) => processDataFrame(frame)); // rename fields if needed
 
       return {
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/sortDataFrame.test.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/sortDataFrame.test.ts
index 165fc7cddfe..987c78ce3f3 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/sortDataFrame.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/sortDataFrame.test.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { ArrayVector, DataFrame, FieldType } from '@grafana/data';
 
-import { sortDataFrameByTime } from './sortDataFrame';
+import { sortDataFrameByTime, SortDirection } from './sortDataFrame';
 
 const inputFrame: DataFrame = {
   refId: 'A',
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ const inputFrame: DataFrame = {
 
 describe('loki sortDataFrame', () => {
   it('sorts a dataframe ascending', () => {
-    const sortedFrame = sortDataFrameByTime(inputFrame, 'ASCENDING');
+    const sortedFrame = sortDataFrameByTime(inputFrame, SortDirection.Ascending);
     expect(sortedFrame.length).toBe(5);
     const timeValues = sortedFrame.fields[0].values.toArray();
     const lineValues = sortedFrame.fields[1].values.toArray();
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ describe('loki sortDataFrame', () => {
     expect(tsNsValues).toStrictEqual([`1001000000`, `1002000000`, `1003000000`, `1004000000`, `1005000000`]);
   });
   it('sorts a dataframe descending', () => {
-    const sortedFrame = sortDataFrameByTime(inputFrame, 'DESCENDING');
+    const sortedFrame = sortDataFrameByTime(inputFrame, SortDirection.Descending);
     expect(sortedFrame.length).toBe(5);
     const timeValues = sortedFrame.fields[0].values.toArray();
     const lineValues = sortedFrame.fields[1].values.toArray();
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/sortDataFrame.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/sortDataFrame.ts
index c524de61160..dba69738950 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/sortDataFrame.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/sortDataFrame.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 import { DataFrame, Field, SortedVector } from '@grafana/data';
 
-type SortDirection = 'ASCENDING' | 'DESCENDING';
+export enum SortDirection {
+  Ascending,
+  Descending,
+}
 
 // creates the `index` for the sorting.
 // this is needed by the `SortedVector`.
@@ -21,7 +24,7 @@ function makeIndex(field: Field<string>, dir: SortDirection): number[] {
     index[i] = i;
   }
 
-  const isAsc = dir === 'ASCENDING';
+  const isAsc = dir === SortDirection.Ascending;
 
   index.sort((a: number, b: number): number => {
     // we need to answer this question: