diff --git a/src/LogContext/LogContextProvider.ts b/src/LogContext/LogContextProvider.ts
index 6919e29..5401550 100644
--- a/src/LogContext/LogContextProvider.ts
+++ b/src/LogContext/LogContextProvider.ts
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import {
   rangeUtil,
 } from '@grafana/data';
 
-import { ElasticsearchQuery, Logs} from '../types';
+import { ElasticsearchQuery, Logs, LogsSortDirection} from '../types';
 
 import { LogContextUI } from './components/LogContextUI';
 
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ export class LogContextProvider {
       settings: {
         limit: options?.limit ? options?.limit.toString() : '10',
         // Sorting of results in the context query
-        sortDirection: direction === LogRowContextQueryDirection.Backward ? 'desc' : 'asc',
+        sortDirection: direction === LogRowContextQueryDirection.Backward ? LogsSortDirection.DESC : LogsSortDirection.ASC,
         // Used to get the next log lines before/after the current log line using sort field of selected log line
         searchAfter: searchAfter,
       },
diff --git a/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/SettingsEditor/LogsSettingsEditor.tsx b/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/SettingsEditor/LogsSettingsEditor.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..09055a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/SettingsEditor/LogsSettingsEditor.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import { css } from "@emotion/css";
+import { RadioButtonGroup } from "@grafana/ui";
+import React from "react";
+import { Logs, LogsSortDirection, LogsEnd } from "types";
+import { SettingField } from "./SettingField";
+import { useDispatch } from "hooks/useStatelessReducer";
+import { changeMetricSetting } from '../state/actions';
+import { metricAggregationConfig } from "../utils";
+
+
+// type LogsSortDirection = 'asc' | 'desc'
+
+interface Props { metric: Logs }
+
+export const LogsSettingsEditor = ({metric}: Props)=>{
+  const config = metricAggregationConfig['logs']
+  const dispatch = useDispatch();
+  return (
+    <div className={css({display:"inline-flex", justifyContent:"start", gap:"4px", height:"100%"})} >
+      <RadioButtonGroup 
+        className={css({height:"100%"})}
+        options={Object.values(LogsSortDirection).map((v)=>({label:LogsEnd[v], value:v}))}
+        value={metric.settings?.sortDirection || config.defaults.settings?.sortDirection }
+        onChange={(v)=>{ dispatch(
+            changeMetricSetting({ metric, settingName: 'sortDirection', newValue: v })
+          )}}/>
+      <SettingField label="Limit" metric={metric} settingName="limit" placeholder={config.defaults.settings?.limit} />
+    </div>
+  )
+
+}
diff --git a/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/SettingsEditor/index.tsx b/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/SettingsEditor/index.tsx
index 3d56d04..9b5b8c4 100644
--- a/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/SettingsEditor/index.tsx
+++ b/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/SettingsEditor/index.tsx
@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ import { MovingAverageSettingsEditor } from './MovingAverageSettingsEditor';
 import { SettingField } from './SettingField';
 import { TopMetricsSettingsEditor } from './TopMetricsSettingsEditor';
 import { useDescription } from './useDescription';
+import { LogsSettingsEditor } from './LogsSettingsEditor';
 
 // TODO: Move this somewhere and share it with BucketsAggregation Editor
-const inlineFieldProps: Partial<ComponentProps<typeof InlineField>> = {
+export const inlineFieldProps: Partial<ComponentProps<typeof InlineField>> = {
   labelWidth: 16,
 };
 
@@ -84,7 +85,9 @@ export const SettingsEditor = ({ metric, previousMetrics }: Props) => {
         </InlineField>
       )}
 
-      {metric.type === 'logs' && <SettingField label="Limit" metric={metric} settingName="limit" placeholder="100" />}
+      {metric.type === 'logs' && (
+        <LogsSettingsEditor metric={metric}></LogsSettingsEditor>
+      )}
 
       {metric.type === 'cardinality' && (
         <SettingField label="Precision Threshold" metric={metric} settingName="precision_threshold" />
diff --git a/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/SettingsEditor/useDescription.ts b/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/SettingsEditor/useDescription.ts
index b143c59..6cf1e16 100644
--- a/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/SettingsEditor/useDescription.ts
+++ b/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/SettingsEditor/useDescription.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { extendedStats } from 'queryDef';
-import { MetricAggregation } from '@/types';
+import { Logs, LogsEnd, MetricAggregation } from '@/types';
+import { metricAggregationConfig } from '../utils';
 
 const hasValue = (value: string) => (object: { value: string }) => object.value === value;
 
@@ -34,6 +35,14 @@ export const useDescription = (metric: MetricAggregation): string => {
       return `Size: ${size}`;
     }
 
+    case 'logs': {
+      const config = metricAggregationConfig['logs']
+      const logsmetric: Logs = metric
+      const sort = LogsEnd[logsmetric.settings?.sortDirection || config.defaults.settings!.sortDirection!]
+      const limit = logsmetric.settings?.limit || 100
+      return `${sort} ${limit}`
+    }
+
     default:
       return 'Options';
   }
diff --git a/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/index.tsx b/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/index.tsx
index 3296612..2c877b5 100644
--- a/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/index.tsx
+++ b/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/index.tsx
@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ import React from 'react';
 import { useDispatch } from '@/hooks/useStatelessReducer';
 import { IconButton } from '../../IconButton';
 import { useQuery } from '../ElasticsearchQueryContext';
-import { QueryEditorRow } from '../QueryEditorRow';
+import { QueryEditorRow, QueryEditorBaseRow } from '../QueryEditorRow';
 
 import { MetricAggregation } from '@/types';
 import { MetricEditor } from './MetricEditor';
 import { addMetric, removeMetric, toggleMetricVisibility } from './state/actions';
 import { metricAggregationConfig } from './utils';
-import { QueryEditorSpecialMetricRow } from '../QueryEditorSpecialMetricRow';
+import { SettingsEditor } from './SettingsEditor';
 
 interface Props {
   nextId: MetricAggregation['id'];
@@ -25,9 +25,13 @@ export const MetricAggregationsEditor = ({ nextId }: Props) => {
       {metrics?.map((metric, index) => {
         switch (metric.type) {
           case 'logs':
-            return <QueryEditorSpecialMetricRow key={`${metric.type}-${metric.id}`} name="Logs" metric={metric} />;
+            return <QueryEditorBaseRow key={`${metric.type}-${metric.id}`} label="Logs">
+                <SettingsEditor metric={metric} previousMetrics={[]} />
+              </QueryEditorBaseRow>;
           case 'raw_data':
-            return <QueryEditorSpecialMetricRow key={`${metric.type}-${metric.id}`} name="Raw Data" metric={metric} />;
+            return <QueryEditorBaseRow key={`${metric.type}-${metric.id}`} label="Raw Data">
+                <SettingsEditor metric={metric} previousMetrics={[]} />
+              </QueryEditorBaseRow>;
           default:
             return (
               <QueryEditorRow
diff --git a/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/utils.ts b/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/utils.ts
index bab53bf..0f3de17 100644
--- a/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/utils.ts
+++ b/src/components/QueryEditor/MetricAggregationsEditor/utils.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { MetricsConfiguration, MetricAggregation, PipelineMetricAggregationType } from '@/types';
+import { MetricsConfiguration, MetricAggregation, PipelineMetricAggregationType, LogsSortDirection } from '@/types';
 
 import {
   defaultPipelineVariable,
@@ -243,7 +243,8 @@ export const metricAggregationConfig: MetricsConfiguration = {
     hasMeta: false,
     defaults: {
       settings: {
-        limit: '100',
+        limit: '1000',
+        sortDirection:'desc' as LogsSortDirection
       },
     },
   },
diff --git a/src/components/QueryEditor/QueryEditorRow.tsx b/src/components/QueryEditor/QueryEditorRow.tsx
index ce7aeac..57b1c0a 100644
--- a/src/components/QueryEditor/QueryEditorRow.tsx
+++ b/src/components/QueryEditor/QueryEditorRow.tsx
@@ -1,68 +1,79 @@
 import { css } from '@emotion/css';
 import { noop } from 'lodash';
-import React, { PropsWithChildren } from 'react';
+import React, { PropsWithChildren, ReactNode } from 'react';
 
 import { GrafanaTheme2 } from '@grafana/data';
 import { IconButton, InlineFieldRow, InlineLabel, InlineSegmentGroup, useStyles2 } from '@grafana/ui';
 
-interface Props {
-  label: string;
+const getStyles = (theme: GrafanaTheme2) => {
+  return {
+    iconWrapper: css`
+      display: flex;
+    `,
+    icon: css`
+      color: ${theme.colors.text.secondary};
+      margin-left: ${theme.spacing(0.25)};
+    `,
+  };
+};
+
+interface BaseRowProps { label: ReactNode; };
+export const QueryEditorBaseRow = ({ label, children }: PropsWithChildren<BaseRowProps>) => {
+  return (
+    <InlineFieldRow>
+      <InlineSegmentGroup>
+        <InlineLabel width={17} as="div">
+          {label}
+        </InlineLabel>
+      </InlineSegmentGroup>
+      {children}
+    </InlineFieldRow>
+  );
+};
+
+interface RowProps extends BaseRowProps {
   onRemoveClick?: false | (() => void);
   onHideClick?: false | (() => void);
   hidden?: boolean;
 }
-
 export const QueryEditorRow = ({
   children,
   label,
   onRemoveClick,
   onHideClick,
   hidden = false,
-}: PropsWithChildren<Props>) => {
+}: PropsWithChildren<RowProps>) => {
   const styles = useStyles2(getStyles);
 
   return (
-    <InlineFieldRow>
-      <InlineSegmentGroup>
-        <InlineLabel width={17} as="div">
-          <span>{label}</span>
-          <span className={styles.iconWrapper}>
-            {onHideClick && (
-              <IconButton
-                name={hidden ? 'eye-slash' : 'eye'}
-                onClick={onHideClick}
-                size="sm"
-                aria-pressed={hidden}
-                aria-label="hide metric"
-                className={styles.icon}
-                type="button"
-              />
-            )}
+    <QueryEditorBaseRow label={(<>
+        <span>{label}</span>
+        <span className={styles.iconWrapper}>
+          {onHideClick && (
             <IconButton
-              name="trash-alt"
+              name={hidden ? 'eye-slash' : 'eye'}
+              onClick={onHideClick}
               size="sm"
+              aria-pressed={hidden}
+              aria-label="hide metric"
               className={styles.icon}
-              onClick={onRemoveClick || noop}
-              disabled={!onRemoveClick}
-              aria-label="remove metric"
               type="button"
             />
-          </span>
-        </InlineLabel>
-      </InlineSegmentGroup>
+          )}
+          <IconButton
+            name="trash-alt"
+            size="sm"
+            className={styles.icon}
+            onClick={onRemoveClick || noop}
+            disabled={!onRemoveClick}
+            aria-label="remove metric"
+            type="button"
+          />
+        </span>
+      </>)}>
       {children}
-    </InlineFieldRow>
+    </QueryEditorBaseRow>
   );
 };
 
-const getStyles = (theme: GrafanaTheme2) => {
-  return {
-    iconWrapper: css`
-      display: flex;
-    `,
-    icon: css`
-      color: ${theme.colors.text.secondary};
-      margin-left: ${theme.spacing(0.25)};
-    `,
-  };
-};
+
diff --git a/src/components/QueryEditor/QueryEditorSpecialMetricRow.tsx b/src/components/QueryEditor/QueryEditorSpecialMetricRow.tsx
deleted file mode 100644
index ab34c00..0000000
--- a/src/components/QueryEditor/QueryEditorSpecialMetricRow.tsx
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-import React from 'react';
-
-import { InlineFieldRow, InlineLabel, InlineSegmentGroup } from '@grafana/ui';
-
-import { MetricAggregation } from '@/types';
-
-import { SettingsEditor } from './MetricAggregationsEditor/SettingsEditor';
-
-type Props = {
-  name: string;
-  metric: MetricAggregation;
-};
-
-export const QueryEditorSpecialMetricRow = ({ name, metric }: Props) => {
-  // this widget is only used in scenarios when there is only a single
-  // metric, so the array of "previousMetrics" (meaning all the metrics
-  // before the current metric), is an ampty-array
-  const previousMetrics: MetricAggregation[] = [];
-
-  return (
-    <InlineFieldRow>
-      <InlineSegmentGroup>
-        <InlineLabel width={17} as="div">
-          <span>{name}</span>
-        </InlineLabel>
-      </InlineSegmentGroup>
-      <SettingsEditor metric={metric} previousMetrics={previousMetrics} />
-    </InlineFieldRow>
-  );
-};
diff --git a/src/queryDef.ts b/src/queryDef.ts
index 66e5160..780253a 100644
--- a/src/queryDef.ts
+++ b/src/queryDef.ts
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ export function defaultMetricAgg(id = '1'): MetricAggregation {
 }
 
 export function defaultLogsAgg(id = '1'): MetricAggregation {
-  return { type: 'logs', id };
+  return { type: 'logs', id, ...metricAggregationConfig['logs'].defaults };
 }
 
 export function defaultBucketAgg(id = '1'): DateHistogram {
diff --git a/src/types.ts b/src/types.ts
index 1dba31c..ed57465 100644
--- a/src/types.ts
+++ b/src/types.ts
@@ -15,14 +15,24 @@ import {
 } from './dataquery.gen';
 
 export * from './dataquery.gen';
-export { Elasticsearch as ElasticsearchQuery } from './dataquery.gen';
+export { type Elasticsearch as ElasticsearchQuery } from './dataquery.gen';
 
 // We want to extend the settings of the Logs query with additional properties that
 // are not part of the schema. This is a workaround, because exporting LogsSettings
 // from dataquery.gen.ts and extending that produces error in SettingKeyOf.
+export enum LogsSortDirection {
+  DESC = 'desc',
+  ASC = 'asc',
+}
+
+export const LogsEnd = {
+  [LogsSortDirection.ASC]: 'Head',
+  [LogsSortDirection.DESC]: 'Tail'
+}
+
 type ExtendedLogsSettings = SchemaLogs['settings'] & {
   searchAfter?: unknown[];
-  sortDirection?: 'asc' | 'desc';
+  sortDirection?: LogsSortDirection;
 };
 
 export interface Logs extends SchemaLogs {
@@ -65,7 +75,7 @@ interface MetricConfiguration<T extends MetricAggregationType> {
   impliedQueryType: QueryType;
   hasSettings: boolean;
   hasMeta: boolean;
-  defaults: Omit<Extract<MetricAggregation, { type: T }>, 'id' | 'type'>;
+  defaults: Omit<Extract<Exclude<MetricAggregation,SchemaLogs>|Logs, { type: T }>, 'id' | 'type'>;
 }
 
 type BucketConfiguration<T extends BucketAggregationType> = {