diff --git a/public/app/features/logs/logsModel.test.ts b/public/app/features/logs/logsModel.test.ts
index 195e60390dd..d5894aeae39 100644
--- a/public/app/features/logs/logsModel.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/logs/logsModel.test.ts
@@ -1636,6 +1636,7 @@ const mockLogRow = {
       },
       { name: 'labels', type: FieldType.other, values: [{ app: 'app01' }, { app: 'app02' }] },
     ],
+    refId: 'Z',
   }),
   rowIndex: 0,
 } as unknown as LogRowModel;
@@ -1674,4 +1675,9 @@ describe('logRowToDataFrame', () => {
 
     expect(result).toBe(null);
   });
+
+  it('should use refId from original DataFrame', () => {
+    const result = logRowToSingleRowDataFrame(mockLogRow);
+    expect(result?.refId).toBe(mockLogRow.dataFrame.refId);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/public/app/features/logs/logsModel.ts b/public/app/features/logs/logsModel.ts
index 488821c901e..d0afaf5c95c 100644
--- a/public/app/features/logs/logsModel.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/logs/logsModel.ts
@@ -844,6 +844,7 @@ export function logRowToSingleRowDataFrame(logRow: LogRowModel): DataFrame | nul
   // create a new data frame containing only the single row from `logRow`
   const frame = createDataFrame({
     fields: originFrame.fields.map((field) => ({ ...field, values: [field.values[logRow.rowIndex]] })),
+    refId: originFrame.refId,
   });
 
   return frame;