diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/util.test.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/util.test.ts
index 64b24bc9b87..edb7407b3b9 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/util.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/util.test.ts
@@ -396,16 +396,6 @@ function createThresholdExample(thresholdType: string): AlertQuery[] {
             params: [0, 10],
             type: thresholdType ?? 'gt',
           },
-          operator: {
-            type: 'and',
-          },
-          query: {
-            params: ['B'],
-          },
-          reducer: {
-            params: [],
-            type: 'last',
-          },
         },
       ],
       expression: 'B',
diff --git a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/util.ts b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/util.ts
index 626551539af..8b02e10f153 100644
--- a/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/util.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/alerting/unified/components/rule-editor/util.ts
@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ export function getThresholdsForQueries(queries: AlertQuery[]) {
       const threshold = condition.evaluator.params;
 
       // "classic_conditions" use `condition.query.params[]` and "threshold" uses `query.model.expression`
-      const refId = condition.query.params[0] ?? query.model.expression;
+      const refId = condition.query?.params[0] ?? query.model.expression;
 
       // if an expression hasn't been linked to a data query yet, it won't have a refId
       if (!refId) {