diff --git a/public/app/features/search/service/unified.ts b/public/app/features/search/service/unified.ts
index 65e8bbf82f5..9e379873cc3 100644
--- a/public/app/features/search/service/unified.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/search/service/unified.ts
@@ -222,6 +222,11 @@ export class UnifiedSearcher implements GrafanaSearcher {
     if (query.name?.length) {
       uri += '&' + query.name.map((name) => `name=${encodeURIComponent(name)}`).join('&');
     }
+
+    if (query.uid?.length) {
+      // legacy support for filtering by dashboard uid
+      uri += '&' + query.uid.map((name) => `name=${encodeURIComponent(name)}`).join('&');
+    }
     return uri;
   }