diff --git a/pkg/services/ngalert/api/api_prometheus.go b/pkg/services/ngalert/api/api_prometheus.go
index 79f7099bdbc..066273a38fa 100644
--- a/pkg/services/ngalert/api/api_prometheus.go
+++ b/pkg/services/ngalert/api/api_prometheus.go
@@ -63,8 +63,12 @@ func (srv PrometheusSrv) RouteGetRuleStatuses(c *models.ReqContext) response.Res
 		return response.JSON(http.StatusInternalServerError, ruleResponse)
 	}
 
-	for _, groupId := range ruleGroupQuery.Result {
-		alertRuleQuery := ngmodels.ListRuleGroupAlertRulesQuery{OrgID: c.SignedInUser.OrgId, RuleGroup: groupId}
+	for _, r := range ruleGroupQuery.Result {
+		if len(r) < 3 {
+			continue
+		}
+		groupId, namespaceUID, namespace := r[0], r[1], r[2]
+		alertRuleQuery := ngmodels.ListRuleGroupAlertRulesQuery{OrgID: c.SignedInUser.OrgId, NamespaceUID: namespaceUID, RuleGroup: groupId}
 		if err := srv.store.GetRuleGroupAlertRules(&alertRuleQuery); err != nil {
 			ruleResponse.DiscoveryBase.Status = "error"
 			ruleResponse.DiscoveryBase.Error = fmt.Sprintf("failure getting rules for group %s: %s", groupId, err.Error())
@@ -73,8 +77,10 @@ func (srv PrometheusSrv) RouteGetRuleStatuses(c *models.ReqContext) response.Res
 		}
 
 		newGroup := &apimodels.RuleGroup{
-			Name:           groupId,
-			File:           "", // This doesn't make sense in our architecture but would be a good use case for provisioned alerts.
+			Name: groupId,
+			// This doesn't make sense in our architecture
+			// so we use this field for passing to the frontend the namaspace
+			File:           namespace,
 			LastEvaluation: time.Time{},
 			EvaluationTime: 0, // TODO: see if we are able to pass this along with evaluation results
 		}
diff --git a/pkg/services/ngalert/models/alert_rule.go b/pkg/services/ngalert/models/alert_rule.go
index 135c1ceb6d3..b931d4631a1 100644
--- a/pkg/services/ngalert/models/alert_rule.go
+++ b/pkg/services/ngalert/models/alert_rule.go
@@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ type ListRuleGroupAlertRulesQuery struct {
 type ListOrgRuleGroupsQuery struct {
 	OrgID int64
 
-	Result []string
+	Result [][]string
 }
 
 // Condition contains backend expressions and queries and the RefID
diff --git a/pkg/services/ngalert/store/alert_rule.go b/pkg/services/ngalert/store/alert_rule.go
index 890fa878402..ae69cb8b8b1 100644
--- a/pkg/services/ngalert/store/alert_rule.go
+++ b/pkg/services/ngalert/store/alert_rule.go
@@ -460,8 +460,8 @@ func (st DBstore) UpdateRuleGroup(cmd UpdateRuleGroupCmd) error {
 
 func (st DBstore) GetOrgRuleGroups(query *ngmodels.ListOrgRuleGroupsQuery) error {
 	return st.SQLStore.WithDbSession(context.Background(), func(sess *sqlstore.DBSession) error {
-		var ruleGroups []string
-		q := "SELECT DISTINCT rule_group FROM alert_rule WHERE org_id = ?"
+		var ruleGroups [][]string
+		q := "SELECT DISTINCT rule_group, namespace_uid, (select title from dashboard where org_id = alert_rule.org_id and uid = alert_rule.namespace_uid) FROM alert_rule WHERE org_id = ?"
 		if err := sess.SQL(q, query.OrgID).Find(&ruleGroups); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}