diff --git a/public/app/features/logs/components/panel/LogListControls.test.tsx b/public/app/features/logs/components/panel/LogListControls.test.tsx
index 2950f635f4c..b6de426a911 100644
--- a/public/app/features/logs/components/panel/LogListControls.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/logs/components/panel/LogListControls.test.tsx
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ describe('LogListControls', () => {
       </LogListContextProvider>
     );
     expect(screen.getByLabelText('Scroll to bottom')).toBeInTheDocument();
-    expect(screen.getByLabelText('Oldest logs first')).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.getByLabelText(/oldest logs first/)).toBeInTheDocument();
     expect(screen.getByLabelText('Deduplication')).toBeInTheDocument();
     expect(screen.getByLabelText('Display levels')).toBeInTheDocument();
     expect(screen.getByLabelText('Show timestamps')).toBeInTheDocument();
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ describe('LogListControls', () => {
       expect(screen.getByLabelText('Scroll to bottom')).toBeInTheDocument();
       expect(screen.getByLabelText('Scroll to top')).toBeInTheDocument();
       expect(screen.getByLabelText('Display levels')).toBeInTheDocument();
-      expect(screen.queryByLabelText('Oldest logs first')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
+      expect(screen.queryByLabelText(/oldest logs first/)).not.toBeInTheDocument();
       expect(screen.queryByLabelText('Deduplication')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
       expect(screen.queryByLabelText('Show timestamps')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
       expect(screen.queryByLabelText('Wrap lines')).not.toBeInTheDocument();
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ describe('LogListControls', () => {
       </LogListContextProvider>
     );
     expect(screen.getByLabelText('Scroll to bottom')).toBeInTheDocument();
-    expect(screen.getByLabelText('Oldest logs first')).toBeInTheDocument();
+    expect(screen.getByLabelText(/oldest logs first/)).toBeInTheDocument();
     expect(screen.getByLabelText('Deduplication')).toBeInTheDocument();
     expect(screen.getByLabelText('Display levels')).toBeInTheDocument();
     expect(screen.getByLabelText('Show timestamps')).toBeInTheDocument();
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ describe('LogListControls', () => {
         <LogListControls eventBus={new EventBusSrv()} />
       </LogListContextProvider>
     );
-    await userEvent.click(screen.getByLabelText('Oldest logs first'));
+    await userEvent.click(screen.getByLabelText(/oldest logs first/));
     expect(onLogOptionsChange).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
     expect(onLogOptionsChange).toHaveBeenCalledWith('sortOrder', LogsSortOrder.Descending);
   });
diff --git a/public/app/features/logs/components/panel/LogListControls.tsx b/public/app/features/logs/components/panel/LogListControls.tsx
index 83c5fe477a7..86333d6297e 100644
--- a/public/app/features/logs/components/panel/LogListControls.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/logs/components/panel/LogListControls.tsx
@@ -226,8 +226,8 @@ export const LogListControls = ({ eventBus, visualisationType = 'logs' }: Props)
             onClick={onSortOrderClick}
             tooltip={
               sortOrder === LogsSortOrder.Descending
-                ? t('logs.logs-controls.newest-first', 'Newest logs first')
-                : t('logs.logs-controls.oldest-first', 'Oldest logs first')
+                ? t('logs.logs-controls.newest-first', 'Sorted by newest logs first - Click to show oldest first')
+                : t('logs.logs-controls.oldest-first', 'Sorted by oldest logs first - Click to show newest first')
             }
             size="lg"
           />
diff --git a/public/locales/en-US/grafana.json b/public/locales/en-US/grafana.json
index 4bdc795cc83..bd428b4369f 100644
--- a/public/locales/en-US/grafana.json
+++ b/public/locales/en-US/grafana.json
@@ -6231,8 +6231,8 @@
       "escape-newlines": "Fix incorrectly escaped newline and tab sequences in log lines",
       "hide-timestamps": "Hide timestamps",
       "hide-unique-labels": "Hide unique labels",
-      "newest-first": "Newest logs first",
-      "oldest-first": "Oldest logs first",
+      "newest-first": "Sorted by newest logs first - Click to show oldest first",
+      "oldest-first": "Sorted by oldest logs first - Click to show newest first",
       "prettify-json": "Expand JSON logs",
       "remove-escaping": "Remove escaping",
       "scroll-bottom": "Scroll to bottom",