diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/result_transformer.test.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/result_transformer.test.ts
index 35ab13e21f3..48d2d987876 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/result_transformer.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/result_transformer.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 import { CircularDataFrame, FieldCache, FieldType, MutableDataFrame } from '@grafana/data';
-import { LokiStreamResult, LokiTailResponse, LokiStreamResponse, LokiResultType, TransformerOptions } from './types';
+import {
+  LokiStreamResult,
+  LokiTailResponse,
+  LokiStreamResponse,
+  LokiResultType,
+  TransformerOptions,
+  LokiMatrixResult,
+} from './types';
 import * as ResultTransformer from './result_transformer';
 import { enhanceDataFrame, lokiPointsToTimeseriesPoints } from './result_transformer';
 import { setTemplateSrv } from '@grafana/runtime';
@@ -209,6 +216,20 @@ describe('loki result transformer', () => {
       expect(label).toBe('label1');
     });
   });
+
+  describe('lokiResultsToTableModel', () => {
+    it('should correctly set the type of the label column to be a string', () => {
+      const lokiResultWithIntLabel = ([
+        { metric: { test: 1 }, value: [1610367143, 10] },
+        { metric: { test: 2 }, value: [1610367144, 20] },
+      ] as unknown) as LokiMatrixResult[];
+
+      const table = ResultTransformer.lokiResultsToTableModel(lokiResultWithIntLabel, 1, 'A', {});
+      expect(table.columns[0].type).toBe('time');
+      expect(table.columns[1].type).toBe('string');
+      expect(table.columns[2].type).toBe('number');
+    });
+  });
 });
 
 describe('enhanceDataFrame', () => {
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/result_transformer.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/result_transformer.ts
index f430e44c8da..cc1eac82189 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/result_transformer.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/result_transformer.ts
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ export function lokiResultsToTableModel(
   table.meta = meta;
   table.columns = [
     { text: 'Time', type: FieldType.time },
-    ...sortedLabels.map(label => ({ text: label, filterable: true })),
+    ...sortedLabels.map(label => ({ text: label, filterable: true, type: FieldType.string })),
     { text: resultCount > 1 || valueWithRefId ? `Value #${refId}` : 'Value', type: FieldType.number },
   ];