diff --git a/operations/alloy-mixin/config.libsonnet b/operations/alloy-mixin/config.libsonnet
index 221aee45d9..2e5cadf835 100644
--- a/operations/alloy-mixin/config.libsonnet
+++ b/operations/alloy-mixin/config.libsonnet
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
         enableLokiLogs: true,
         filterSelector: '', #use it to filter specific metric label values, ie: job=~"integrations/alloy"
         k8sClusterSelector: 'cluster=~"$cluster", namespace=~"$namespace"',
-        groupSelector: if self.enableK8sCluster then self.k8sClusterSelector + ', job="$job"' else 'job="$job"',        
+        groupSelector: if self.enableK8sCluster then self.k8sClusterSelector + ', job=~"$job"' else 'job=~"$job"',        
         instanceSelector: self.groupSelector + ', instance=~"$instance"',        
         logsFilterSelector: '', #use to filter logs originated from alloy, and avoid picking up other platform logs, ie: service_name="alloy"
         dashboardTag: 'alloy-mixin',
diff --git a/operations/alloy-mixin/dashboards/cluster-overview.libsonnet b/operations/alloy-mixin/dashboards/cluster-overview.libsonnet
index 6364a6c2c8..9b07ec8d4f 100644
--- a/operations/alloy-mixin/dashboards/cluster-overview.libsonnet
+++ b/operations/alloy-mixin/dashboards/cluster-overview.libsonnet
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ local cluster_node_filename = 'alloy-cluster-node.json';
         panel.withQueries([
           panel.newInstantQuery(
             expr= |||
-              'count(cluster_node_info{%(groupSelector)s})'
+              count(cluster_node_info{%(groupSelector)s})
             ||| % $._config
           ),
         ])
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ local cluster_node_filename = 'alloy-cluster-node.json';
         panel.withQueries([
           panel.newInstantQuery(
             expr= |||
-              'cluster_node_info{%(groupSelector)s}'
+              cluster_node_info{%(groupSelector)s}
             ||| % $._config,
             format='table',
           ),