diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/datasource.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/datasource.ts
index 7b3869b1910..9823453ed98 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/datasource.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/datasource.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { Observable, from, merge, of } from 'rxjs';
 import { map, filter, catchError, switchMap } from 'rxjs/operators';
 
 // Services & Utils
-import { DataFrame, dateMath, FieldCache } from '@grafana/data';
+import { DataFrame, dateMath, FieldCache, QueryResultMeta } from '@grafana/data';
 import { getBackendSrv } from '@grafana/runtime';
 import { addLabelToQuery } from 'app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/add_label_to_query';
 import { DatasourceRequestOptions } from 'app/core/services/backend_srv';
@@ -140,6 +140,10 @@ export class LokiDatasource extends DataSourceApi<LokiQuery, LokiOptions> {
       time: `${timeNs + (1e9 - (timeNs % 1e9))}`,
       limit: Math.min(options.maxDataPoints || Infinity, this.maxLines),
     };
+    /** Show results of Loki instant queries only in table */
+    const meta: QueryResultMeta = {
+      preferredVisualisationType: 'table',
+    };
 
     return this._request(INSTANT_QUERY_ENDPOINT, query).pipe(
       catchError((err: any) => this.throwUnless(err, err.cancelled, target)),
@@ -150,7 +154,7 @@ export class LokiDatasource extends DataSourceApi<LokiQuery, LokiOptions> {
         }
 
         return {
-          data: [lokiResultsToTableModel(response.data.data.result, responseListLength, target.refId, true)],
+          data: [lokiResultsToTableModel(response.data.data.result, responseListLength, target.refId, meta, true)],
           key: `${target.refId}_instant`,
         };
       })
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/result_transformer.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/result_transformer.ts
index c986ac4c065..82695d608d1 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/result_transformer.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/result_transformer.ts
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import {
   DataLink,
   Field,
   QueryResultMetaStat,
+  QueryResultMeta,
 } from '@grafana/data';
 
 import templateSrv from 'app/features/templating/template_srv';
@@ -146,6 +147,8 @@ function lokiMatrixToTimeSeries(matrixResult: LokiMatrixResult, options: Transfo
     target: createMetricLabel(matrixResult.metric, options),
     datapoints: lokiPointsToTimeseriesPoints(matrixResult.values, options),
     tags: matrixResult.metric,
+    meta: options.meta,
+    refId: options.refId,
   };
 }
 
@@ -184,6 +187,7 @@ export function lokiResultsToTableModel(
   lokiResults: Array<LokiMatrixResult | LokiVectorResult>,
   resultCount: number,
   refId: string,
+  meta: QueryResultMeta,
   valueWithRefId?: boolean
 ): TableModel {
   if (!lokiResults || lokiResults.length === 0) {
@@ -198,6 +202,8 @@ export function lokiResultsToTableModel(
   // Sort metric labels, create columns for them and record their index
   const sortedLabels = [...metricLabels.values()].sort();
   const table = new TableModel();
+  table.refId = refId;
+  table.meta = meta;
   table.columns = [
     { text: 'Time', type: FieldType.time },
     ...sortedLabels.map(label => ({ text: label, filterable: true })),
@@ -384,6 +390,11 @@ export function rangeQueryResponseToTimeSeries(
   target: LokiQuery,
   responseListLength: number
 ): TimeSeries[] {
+  /** Show results of Loki metric queries only in graph */
+  const meta: QueryResultMeta = {
+    preferredVisualisationType: 'graph',
+  };
+
   const transformerOptions: TransformerOptions = {
     format: target.format,
     legendFormat: target.legendFormat,
@@ -393,6 +404,7 @@ export function rangeQueryResponseToTimeSeries(
     query: query.query,
     responseListLength,
     refId: target.refId,
+    meta,
     valueWithRefId: target.valueWithRefId,
   };
 
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/types.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/types.ts
index 321f301b355..794d13f4c3c 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/types.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/types.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { DataQuery, DataSourceJsonData } from '@grafana/data';
+import { DataQuery, DataSourceJsonData, QueryResultMeta } from '@grafana/data';
 
 export interface LokiInstantQueryRequest {
   query: string;
@@ -123,5 +123,6 @@ export interface TransformerOptions {
   query: string;
   responseListLength: number;
   refId: string;
+  meta?: QueryResultMeta;
   valueWithRefId?: boolean;
 }