diff --git a/.changeset/silent-pandas-search.md b/.changeset/silent-pandas-search.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9d9ef3e761
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/silent-pandas-search.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+---
+'@hyperdx/api': patch
+---
+
+Apply saved-search pinned filters to alert notification sample queries so sample
+log lines come from the same row set the alert counted.
diff --git a/packages/api/src/tasks/checkAlerts/__tests__/renderAlertTemplate.int.test.ts b/packages/api/src/tasks/checkAlerts/__tests__/renderAlertTemplate.int.test.ts
index d5e05842ad..d7ffdcdf10 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/tasks/checkAlerts/__tests__/renderAlertTemplate.int.test.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/tasks/checkAlerts/__tests__/renderAlertTemplate.int.test.ts
@@ -81,12 +81,20 @@ const sampleLogsCsv = [
   '"2023-03-17 22:12:30","error","Retry limit exceeded"',
 ].join('\n');
 
+const sampleLogsResultSet = () => ({
+  json: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ data: [] }),
+  text: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(sampleLogsCsv),
+});
+
+// Typed separately from the client so tests can swap the implementation
+// without spying through the `any` cast below, which erases the arg types.
+const defaultClickhouseQuery = async (_props: { query: string }) =>
+  sampleLogsResultSet();
+const mockClickhouseQuery = jest.fn(defaultClickhouseQuery);
+
 // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unsafe-type-assertion
 const mockClickhouseClient = {
-  query: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({
-    json: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue({ data: [] }),
-    text: jest.fn().mockResolvedValue(sampleLogsCsv),
-  }),
+  query: mockClickhouseQuery,
 } as any;
 
 const startTime = new Date('2023-03-17T22:10:00.000Z');
@@ -713,6 +721,35 @@ describe('enriched message fields', () => {
     });
   });
 
+  it('applies the saved search pinned filters to the sample log query', async () => {
+    const seenQueries: string[] = [];
+    mockClickhouseQuery.mockImplementation(async ({ query }) => {
+      seenQueries.push(query);
+      return sampleLogsResultSet();
+    });
+
+    try {
+      await renderAlertTemplate({
+        alertProvider,
+        clickhouseClient: mockClickhouseClient,
+        metadata: mockMetadata,
+        state: AlertState.ALERT,
+        template: null,
+        title: 'Test Alert Title',
+        view: makeSearchView({
+          filters: [{ type: 'sql', condition: "ServiceName = 'checkout'" }],
+        }),
+        teamId: TEST_TEAM_ID,
+        teamWebhooksById: new Map(),
+      });
+
+      const fullQuery = seenQueries.join('\n');
+      expect(fullQuery).toContain("ServiceName = 'checkout'");
+    } finally {
+      mockClickhouseQuery.mockImplementation(defaultClickhouseQuery);
+    }
+  });
+
   it('reports an empty sourceQuery when the chart carries no condition', async () => {
     const { dispatched } = await renderWithWebhook(
       AlertState.ALERT,
diff --git a/packages/api/src/tasks/checkAlerts/template.ts b/packages/api/src/tasks/checkAlerts/template.ts
index b6440f897e..a2850c6207 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/tasks/checkAlerts/template.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/tasks/checkAlerts/template.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { ClickhouseClient } from '@hyperdx/common-utils/dist/clickhouse/node';
 import { Metadata } from '@hyperdx/common-utils/dist/core/metadata';
 import { renderChartConfig } from '@hyperdx/common-utils/dist/core/renderChartConfig';
+import { buildSearchChartConfig } from '@hyperdx/common-utils/dist/core/searchChartConfig';
 import { formatDate, objectHash } from '@hyperdx/common-utils/dist/core/utils';
 import {
   isPromqlSavedChartConfig,
@@ -11,10 +12,8 @@ import {
   AlertThresholdType,
   BuilderChartConfigWithOptDateRange,
   ChartConfigWithOptDateRange,
-  DisplayType,
   Filter,
   isRangeThresholdType,
-  pickSampleWeightExpressionProps,
   SavedChartConfig,
   SourceKind,
   zAlertChannelType,
@@ -531,33 +530,23 @@ export const fetchSampleLines = async ({
   metadata: Metadata;
   savedSearch: Pick<
     ISavedSearch,
-    'id' | 'select' | 'where' | 'whereLanguage' | 'orderBy'
+    'id' | 'select' | 'where' | 'whereLanguage' | 'orderBy' | 'filters'
   >;
   source: ISource;
   startTime: Date;
 }): Promise<string> => {
-  const isEventSource =
-    source.kind === SourceKind.Log || source.kind === SourceKind.Trace;
   const chartConfig: ChartConfigWithOptDateRange = {
-    connection: '', // no need for the connection id since clickhouse client is already initialized
-    displayType: DisplayType.Search,
-    dateRange: [startTime, endTime],
-    from: source.from,
-    select:
-      savedSearch.select ||
-      (isEventSource && source.defaultTableSelectExpression) ||
-      '',
-    where: savedSearch.where,
-    whereLanguage: savedSearch.whereLanguage,
-    implicitColumnExpression: isEventSource
-      ? source.implicitColumnExpression
-      : undefined,
-    useTextIndexForImplicitColumn: isEventSource
-      ? source.useTextIndexForImplicitColumn
-      : undefined,
-    ...pickSampleWeightExpressionProps(source),
-    timestampValueExpression: source.timestampValueExpression,
-    orderBy: savedSearch.orderBy,
+    ...buildSearchChartConfig(source, {
+      connection: '', // no need for the connection id since clickhouse client is already initialized
+      dateRange: [startTime, endTime],
+      select: savedSearch.select,
+      where: savedSearch.where,
+      whereLanguage: savedSearch.whereLanguage,
+      filters: savedSearch.filters,
+      orderBy: savedSearch.orderBy,
+      dateRangeStartInclusive: true,
+      dateRangeEndInclusive: false,
+    }),
     limit: {
       limit: 5,
       offset: 0,