As described in https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/85689, sortNumericMetricRef is being used in sdata/numeric's validateAndGetRefs<Type> functions, and it's erroneously changing the results of multi-ref queries that include sorted metrics and numeric expressions.
As described in https://github.com/grafana/grafana/issues/85689,
sortNumericMetricRefis being used insdata/numeric'svalidateAndGetRefs<Type>functions, and it's erroneously changing the results of multi-ref queries that include sorted metrics and numeric expressions.