diff --git a/cmd/karma/alerts.go b/cmd/karma/alerts.go
index c259add51..63ae38090 100644
--- a/cmd/karma/alerts.go
+++ b/cmd/karma/alerts.go
@@ -266,9 +266,10 @@ func sortGrids(r *http.Request, gridLabel string, gridsMap map[string]models.API
 }
 
 func autoGridLabel(dedupedAlerts []models.AlertGroup) string {
-	var alertsCount int
+	var alertsCount, alertGroupsCount int
 	labelNameToValueCount := map[string]map[string]int{}
 	for _, ag := range dedupedAlerts {
+		alertGroupsCount++
 		alertsCount += ag.Alerts.Len()
 		for _, alert := range ag.Alerts {
 			for key, val := range alert.Labels {
@@ -282,7 +283,7 @@ func autoGridLabel(dedupedAlerts []models.AlertGroup) string {
 			}
 		}
 	}
-	log.Debug().Int("alerts", alertsCount).Msg("Alerts count for automatic grid label")
+	log.Debug().Int("alerts", alertsCount).Int("groups", alertGroupsCount).Msg("Alerts count for automatic grid label")
 
 	candidates := map[string]int{}
 	for key, vals := range labelNameToValueCount {
@@ -303,7 +304,7 @@ func autoGridLabel(dedupedAlerts []models.AlertGroup) string {
 	var lastCnt int
 	for key, uniqueValues := range candidates {
 		log.Debug().Int("variants", uniqueValues).Str("label", key).Msg("Automatic grid label candidate")
-		if uniqueValues == 1 || uniqueValues == alertsCount {
+		if uniqueValues == 1 || uniqueValues == alertsCount || uniqueValues == alertGroupsCount {
 			continue
 		}
 		if lastCnt == 0 || uniqueValues < lastCnt || (uniqueValues == lastCnt && key > lastLabel) {
diff --git a/demo/karma.yaml b/demo/karma.yaml
index 866705c8e..b46783da2 100644
--- a/demo/karma.yaml
+++ b/demo/karma.yaml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ labels:
           color: "#ff220c"
 log:
   config: false
-  level: warning
+  level: debug
 sentry:
   private: "https://84a9ef37a6ed4fdb80e9ea2310d1ed26:8c6ee6f0ab02406482ff4b4e824e2c27@o185090.ingest.sentry.io/1279017"
   public: "https://84a9ef37a6ed4fdb80e9ea2310d1ed26@o185090.ingest.sentry.io/1279017"