diff --git a/app/vmalert/web.go b/app/vmalert/web.go
index fff17abded..152373f465 100644
--- a/app/vmalert/web.go
+++ b/app/vmalert/web.go
@@ -296,7 +296,11 @@ func (rh *requestHandler) groups(rf rulesFilter) []apiGroup {
 	}
 	// sort list of groups for deterministic output
 	sort.Slice(groups, func(i, j int) bool {
-		return groups[i].Name < groups[j].Name
+		a, b := groups[i], groups[j]
+		if a.Name != b.Name {
+			return a.Name < b.Name
+		}
+		return a.File < b.File
 	})
 	return groups
 }
diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.md b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
index ad568fd2c6..cf85b8b5fd 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ Released at 2024-02-14
 * BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): clear entered text in select after selecting a value. See [this issue](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5727).
 * BUGFIX: [vmui](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmui): improve the operation of the context for autocomplete. See [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5736), [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5737) and [this](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/issues/5739) issues.
 * BUGFIX: [dashboards](https://grafana.com/orgs/victoriametrics): update `Storage full ETA` panels for Single-node and Cluster dashboards to prevent them from showing negative or blank results caused by increase of deduplicated samples. Deduplicated samples were part of the expression to provide a better estimate for disk usage, but due to sporadic nature of [deduplication](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#deduplication) in VictoriaMetrics it rather produced skewed results. See [this pull request](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/pull/5747).
+* BUGFIX: [vmalert](https://docs.victoriametrics.com/#vmalert): consistently sort groups by name and filename on `/groups` page in UI. This should prevent non-deterministic sorting for groups with identical names.
+
 
 # [v1.97.2](https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/releases/tag/v1.97.2)