diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/CloudMonitoringMetricFindQuery.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/CloudMonitoringMetricFindQuery.ts
index 84b6cc59689..b3bff0f4753 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/CloudMonitoringMetricFindQuery.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/CloudMonitoringMetricFindQuery.ts
@@ -100,7 +100,10 @@ export default class CloudMonitoringMetricFindQuery {
       return [];
     }
     const refId = 'handleLabelValuesQuery';
-    const labels = await this.datasource.getLabels(selectedMetricType, refId, projectName, [labelKey]);
+    const labels = await this.datasource.getLabels(selectedMetricType, refId, projectName, {
+      groupBys: [labelKey],
+      crossSeriesReducer: 'REDUCE_MEAN',
+    });
     const interpolatedKey = this.datasource.templateSrv.replace(labelKey);
     const values = labels.hasOwnProperty(interpolatedKey) ? labels[interpolatedKey] : [];
     return values.map(this.toFindQueryResult);
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/MetricQueryEditor.tsx b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/MetricQueryEditor.tsx
index 495b818ba43..40a129cbb04 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/MetricQueryEditor.tsx
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/components/MetricQueryEditor.tsx
@@ -61,15 +61,15 @@ function Editor({
   variableOptionGroup,
 }: React.PropsWithChildren<Props>) {
   const [state, setState] = useState<State>(defaultState);
-  const { projectName, metricType, groupBys, editorMode } = query;
+  const { projectName, metricType, groupBys, editorMode, crossSeriesReducer } = query;
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (projectName && metricType) {
       datasource
-        .getLabels(metricType, refId, projectName, groupBys)
+        .getLabels(metricType, refId, projectName, { groupBys, crossSeriesReducer })
         .then((labels) => setState((prevState) => ({ ...prevState, labels })));
     }
-  }, [datasource, groupBys, metricType, projectName, refId]);
+  }, [datasource, groupBys, metricType, projectName, refId, crossSeriesReducer]);
 
   const onChange = useCallback(
     (metricQuery: MetricQuery | SLOQuery) => {
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/datasource.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/datasource.ts
index 94b78a815f8..cd3b314ecda 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/datasource.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/datasource.ts
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import {
   MetricDescriptor,
   QueryType,
   PostResponse,
+  Aggregation,
 } from './types';
 import { CloudMonitoringVariableSupport } from './variables';
 
@@ -136,7 +137,7 @@ export default class CloudMonitoringDatasource extends DataSourceWithBackend<
     };
   }
 
-  async getLabels(metricType: string, refId: string, projectName: string, groupBys?: string[]) {
+  async getLabels(metricType: string, refId: string, projectName: string, aggregation?: Aggregation) {
     const options = {
       targets: [
         {
@@ -146,8 +147,8 @@ export default class CloudMonitoringDatasource extends DataSourceWithBackend<
           metricQuery: {
             projectName: this.templateSrv.replace(projectName),
             metricType: this.templateSrv.replace(metricType),
-            groupBys: this.interpolateGroupBys(groupBys || [], {}),
-            crossSeriesReducer: 'REDUCE_NONE',
+            groupBys: this.interpolateGroupBys(aggregation?.groupBys || [], {}),
+            crossSeriesReducer: aggregation?.crossSeriesReducer ?? 'REDUCE_NONE',
             view: 'HEADERS',
           },
         },
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 2058e476feb..2d679fe4ed4 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/specs/datasource.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/specs/datasource.test.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ jest.mock('@grafana/runtime', () => ({
 
 type Args = { response?: any; throws?: boolean; templateSrv?: TemplateSrv };
 
+const fetchMock = jest.spyOn(backendSrv, 'fetch');
+
 function getTestcontext({ response = {}, throws = false, templateSrv = new TemplateSrv() }: Args = {}) {
   jest.clearAllMocks();
 
@@ -26,9 +28,12 @@ function getTestcontext({ response = {}, throws = false, templateSrv = new Templ
     },
   } as unknown) as DataSourceInstanceSettings<CloudMonitoringOptions>;
 
-  const timeSrv = {} as TimeSrv;
-
-  const fetchMock = jest.spyOn(backendSrv, 'fetch');
+  const timeSrv = {
+    timeRange: () => ({
+      from: toUtc('2017-08-22T20:00:00Z'),
+      to: toUtc('2017-08-22T23:59:00Z'),
+    }),
+  } as TimeSrv;
 
   throws
     ? fetchMock.mockImplementation(() => throwError(response))
@@ -82,6 +87,41 @@ describe('CloudMonitoringDataSource', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  describe('When loading labels', () => {
+    describe('and no aggregation was specified', () => {
+      it('should use default values', async () => {
+        const { ds } = getTestcontext();
+        await ds.getLabels('cpu', 'a', 'default-proj');
+
+        await expect(fetchMock.mock.calls[0][0].data.queries[0].metricQuery).toMatchObject({
+          crossSeriesReducer: 'REDUCE_NONE',
+          groupBys: [],
+          metricType: 'cpu',
+          projectName: 'default-proj',
+          view: 'HEADERS',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+
+    describe('and an aggregation was specified', () => {
+      it('should use the provided aggregation', async () => {
+        const { ds } = getTestcontext();
+        await ds.getLabels('sql', 'b', 'default-proj', {
+          crossSeriesReducer: 'REDUCE_MEAN',
+          groupBys: ['metadata.system_label.name'],
+        });
+
+        await expect(fetchMock.mock.calls[0][0].data.queries[0].metricQuery).toMatchObject({
+          crossSeriesReducer: 'REDUCE_MEAN',
+          groupBys: ['metadata.system_label.name'],
+          metricType: 'sql',
+          projectName: 'default-proj',
+          view: 'HEADERS',
+        });
+      });
+    });
+  });
+
   describe('when interpolating a template variable for the filter', () => {
     describe('and is single value variable', () => {
       it('should replace the variable with the value', () => {
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/types.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/types.ts
index 135147f4db2..347490a7844 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/types.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/cloud-monitoring/types.ts
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ export interface VariableQueryData {
   loading: boolean;
 }
 
+export interface Aggregation {
+  crossSeriesReducer?: string;
+  groupBys?: string[];
+}
+
 export enum QueryType {
   METRICS = 'metrics',
   SLO = 'slo',