diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/datasource.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/datasource.ts
index e6762799894..94b78a815f8 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/datasource.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/datasource.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { chunk, flatten, isString } from 'lodash';
+import { chunk, flatten, isString, isArray } from 'lodash';
 import { from, lastValueFrom, Observable, of } from 'rxjs';
 import { map, mergeMap } from 'rxjs/operators';
 import {
@@ -296,7 +296,9 @@ export default class CloudMonitoringDatasource extends DataSourceWithBackend<
       completeFilter.map(({ key, operator, value, condition }: Filter) => [
         this.templateSrv.replace(key, scopedVars || {}),
         operator,
-        this.templateSrv.replace(value, scopedVars || {}, 'regex'),
+        this.templateSrv.replace(value, scopedVars || {}, (value: string | string[]) => {
+          return isArray(value) && value.length ? `(${value.join('|')})` : value;
+        }),
         ...(condition ? [condition] : []),
       ])
     );
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/specs/datasource.test.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/specs/datasource.test.ts
index db478db95d6..2058e476feb 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/specs/datasource.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/specs/datasource.test.ts
@@ -113,6 +113,22 @@ describe('CloudMonitoringDataSource', () => {
 
         expect(interpolated[2]).toBe('(filtervalue1|filtervalue2)');
       });
+
+      it('should not escape a regex', () => {
+        const templateSrv = initTemplateSrv('/[a-Z]*.html', true);
+        const { ds } = getTestcontext({ templateSrv });
+        const interpolated = ds.interpolateFilters(['resource.label.zone', '=~', '[[test]]'], {});
+
+        expect(interpolated[2]).toBe('/[a-Z]*.html');
+      });
+
+      it('should not escape an array of regexes but join them as a regex', () => {
+        const templateSrv = initTemplateSrv(['/[a-Z]*.html', '/foo.html'], true);
+        const { ds } = getTestcontext({ templateSrv });
+        const interpolated = ds.interpolateFilters(['resource.label.zone', '=~', '[[test]]'], {});
+
+        expect(interpolated[2]).toBe('(/[a-Z]*.html|/foo.html)');
+      });
     });
   });