diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/LogsQueryEditor/ResourceField.tsx b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/LogsQueryEditor/ResourceField.tsx
index 2a2254319085..7d69c8ab17bd 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/LogsQueryEditor/ResourceField.tsx
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/LogsQueryEditor/ResourceField.tsx
@@ -17,10 +17,9 @@ function parseResourceDetails(resourceURI: string) {
   }
 
   return {
-    id: resourceURI,
     subscriptionName: parsed.subscriptionID,
     resourceGroupName: parsed.resourceGroup,
-    name: parsed.resource,
+    resourceName: parsed.resource,
   };
 }
 
@@ -85,7 +84,7 @@ const ResourceLabel = ({ resource, datasource }: ResourceLabelProps) => {
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (resource && parseResourceDetails(resource)) {
-      datasource.resourcePickerData.getResource(resource).then(setResourceComponents);
+      datasource.resourcePickerData.getResourceURIDisplayProperties(resource).then(setResourceComponents);
     } else {
       setResourceComponents(undefined);
     }
@@ -118,10 +117,18 @@ const FormattedResource = ({ resource }: FormattedResourceProps) => {
   return (
     <span>
       <Icon name="layer-group" /> {resource.subscriptionName}
-      <Separator />
-      <Icon name="folder" /> {resource.resourceGroupName}
-      <Separator />
-      <Icon name="cube" /> {resource.name}
+      {resource.resourceGroupName && (
+        <>
+          <Separator />
+          <Icon name="folder" /> {resource.resourceGroupName}
+        </>
+      )}
+      {resource.resourceName && (
+        <>
+          <Separator />
+          <Icon name="cube" /> {resource.resourceName}
+        </>
+      )}
     </span>
   );
 };
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/NestedRows.tsx b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/NestedRows.tsx
index a238b9e5e9b5..78407c3ba5b3 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/NestedRows.tsx
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/NestedRows.tsx
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { cx } from '@emotion/css';
 import { Checkbox, Icon, IconButton, LoadingPlaceholder, useStyles2, useTheme2, FadeTransition } from '@grafana/ui';
 import React, { useCallback, useEffect, useState } from 'react';
+import { Space } from '../Space';
 import getStyles from './styles';
 import { ResourceRowType, ResourceRow, ResourceRowGroup } from './types';
 import { findRow } from './utils';
@@ -163,7 +164,9 @@ const NestedEntry: React.FC<NestedEntryProps> = ({
   const theme = useTheme2();
   const styles = useStyles2(getStyles);
   const hasChildren = !!entry.children;
-  const isSelectable = entry.type === ResourceRowType.Resource || entry.type === ResourceRowType.Variable;
+  // Subscriptions, resource groups, resources, and variables are all selectable, so
+  // the top-level variable group is the only thing that cannot be selected.
+  const isSelectable = entry.type !== ResourceRowType.VariableGroup;
 
   const handleToggleCollapse = useCallback(() => {
     onToggleCollapse(entry);
@@ -185,7 +188,7 @@ const NestedEntry: React.FC<NestedEntryProps> = ({
             of the collapse button for leaf rows that have no children to get them to align */}
 
       <span className={styles.entryContentItem}>
-        {hasChildren && (
+        {hasChildren ? (
           <IconButton
             className={styles.collapseButton}
             name={isOpen ? 'angle-down' : 'angle-right'}
@@ -193,12 +196,16 @@ const NestedEntry: React.FC<NestedEntryProps> = ({
             onClick={handleToggleCollapse}
             id={entry.id}
           />
+        ) : (
+          <Space layout="inline" h={2} />
         )}
+      </span>
 
-        {isSelectable && (
+      {isSelectable && (
+        <span className={styles.entryContentItem}>
           <Checkbox id={checkboxId} onChange={handleSelectedChanged} disabled={isDisabled} value={isSelected} />
-        )}
-      </span>
+        </span>
+      )}
 
       <span className={styles.entryContentItem}>
         <EntryIcon entry={entry} isOpen={isOpen} />
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/index.tsx b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/index.tsx
index c4f0d88e68c7..9c368f9cb1fd 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/index.tsx
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/index.tsx
@@ -42,7 +42,14 @@ const ResourcePicker = ({
   // Map the selected item into an array of rows
   const selectedResourceRows = useMemo(() => {
     const found = internalSelected && findRow(rows, internalSelected);
-    return found ? [found] : [];
+    return found
+      ? [
+          {
+            ...found,
+            children: undefined,
+          },
+        ]
+      : [];
   }, [internalSelected, rows]);
 
   // Request resources for a expanded resource group
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/styles.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/styles.ts
index 95f95ee70252..dc039a859c87 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/styles.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/styles.ts
@@ -29,13 +29,13 @@ const getStyles = (theme: GrafanaTheme2) => ({
   }),
 
   cell: css({
-    padding: theme.spacing(1, 0),
+    padding: theme.spacing(1, 1, 1, 0),
     width: '25%',
     overflow: 'hidden',
     textOverflow: 'ellipsis',
     '&:first-of-type': {
       width: '50%',
-      padding: theme.spacing(1, 0, 1, 2),
+      padding: theme.spacing(1, 1, 1, 2),
     },
   }),
 
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/utils.test.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/utils.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..58dd86f5be82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/utils.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+import { parseResourceURI } from './utils';
+
+describe('AzureMonitor ResourcePicker utils', () => {
+  describe('parseResourceURI', () => {
+    it('should parse subscription URIs', () => {
+      expect(parseResourceURI('/subscriptions/44693801-6ee6-49de-9b2d-9106972f9572')).toEqual({
+        subscriptionID: '44693801-6ee6-49de-9b2d-9106972f9572',
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('should parse resource group URIs', () => {
+      expect(
+        parseResourceURI('/subscriptions/44693801-6ee6-49de-9b2d-9106972f9572/resourceGroups/cloud-datasources')
+      ).toEqual({
+        subscriptionID: '44693801-6ee6-49de-9b2d-9106972f9572',
+        resourceGroup: 'cloud-datasources',
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('should parse resource URIs', () => {
+      expect(
+        parseResourceURI(
+          '/subscriptions/44693801-6ee6-49de-9b2d-9106972f9572/resourceGroups/cloud-datasources/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/GithubTestDataVM'
+        )
+      ).toEqual({
+        subscriptionID: '44693801-6ee6-49de-9b2d-9106972f9572',
+        resourceGroup: 'cloud-datasources',
+        resource: 'GithubTestDataVM',
+      });
+    });
+
+    it('returns undefined for invalid input', () => {
+      expect(parseResourceURI('44693801-6ee6-49de-9b2d-9106972f9572')).toBeUndefined();
+    });
+  });
+});
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/utils.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/utils.ts
index ab9f0af4b24b..5d6d8fdd5984 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/utils.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/components/ResourcePicker/utils.ts
@@ -1,16 +1,23 @@
 import produce from 'immer';
 import { ResourceRow, ResourceRowGroup } from './types';
 
-const RESOURCE_URI_REGEX = /\/subscriptions\/(?<subscriptionID>.+)\/resourceGroups\/(?<resourceGroup>.+)\/providers.+\/(?<resource>[\w-_]+)/;
+// This regex matches URIs representing:
+//  - subscriptions: /subscriptions/44693801-6ee6-49de-9b2d-9106972f9572
+//  - resource groups: /subscriptions/44693801-6ee6-49de-9b2d-9106972f9572/resourceGroups/cloud-datasources
+//  - resources: /subscriptions/44693801-6ee6-49de-9b2d-9106972f9572/resourceGroups/cloud-datasources/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/GithubTestDataVM
+const RESOURCE_URI_REGEX = /\/subscriptions\/(?<subscriptionID>[^/]+)(?:\/resourceGroups\/(?<resourceGroup>[^/]+)(?:\/providers.+\/(?<resource>[^/]+))?)?/;
+
+type RegexGroups = Record<string, string | undefined>;
 
 export function parseResourceURI(resourceURI: string) {
   const matches = RESOURCE_URI_REGEX.exec(resourceURI);
+  const groups: RegexGroups = matches?.groups ?? {};
+  const { subscriptionID, resourceGroup, resource } = groups;
 
-  if (!matches?.groups?.subscriptionID || !matches?.groups?.resourceGroup) {
+  if (!subscriptionID) {
     return undefined;
   }
 
-  const { subscriptionID, resourceGroup, resource } = matches.groups;
   return { subscriptionID, resourceGroup, resource };
 }
 
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/resourcePicker/resourcePickerData.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/resourcePicker/resourcePickerData.ts
index 87af244c534c..4ee61891a775 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/resourcePicker/resourcePickerData.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/resourcePicker/resourcePickerData.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { FetchResponse, getBackendSrv } from '@grafana/runtime';
 import { getLogAnalyticsResourcePickerApiRoute } from '../api/routes';
 import { ResourceRowType, ResourceRow, ResourceRowGroup } from '../components/ResourcePicker/types';
+import { parseResourceURI } from '../components/ResourcePicker/utils';
 import { getAzureCloud } from '../credentials';
 import {
   AzureDataSourceInstanceSettings,
@@ -73,21 +74,38 @@ export default class ResourcePickerData {
     return formatResourceGroupChildren(response.data);
   }
 
-  async getResource(resourceURI: string) {
+  async getResourceURIDisplayProperties(resourceURI: string): Promise<AzureResourceSummaryItem> {
+    const { subscriptionID, resourceGroup } = parseResourceURI(resourceURI) ?? {};
+
+    if (!subscriptionID) {
+      throw new Error('Invalid resource URI passed');
+    }
+
+    // resourceGroupURI and resourceURI could be invalid values, but that's okay because the join
+    // will just silently fail as expected
+    const subscriptionURI = `/subscriptions/${subscriptionID}`;
+    const resourceGroupURI = `${subscriptionURI}/resourceGroups/${resourceGroup}`;
+
     const query = `
-      resources
-        | join (
-            resourcecontainers
-              | where type == "microsoft.resources/subscriptions"
-              | project subscriptionName=name, subscriptionId
-          ) on subscriptionId
-        | join (
-            resourcecontainers
-              | where type == "microsoft.resources/subscriptions/resourcegroups"
-              | project resourceGroupName=name, resourceGroup
-          ) on resourceGroup
-        | where id == "${resourceURI}"
-        | project id, name, subscriptionName, resourceGroupName
+      resourcecontainers
+        | where type == "microsoft.resources/subscriptions"
+        | where id == "${subscriptionURI}"
+        | project subscriptionName=name, subscriptionId
+
+        | join kind=leftouter (
+          resourcecontainers
+            | where type == "microsoft.resources/subscriptions/resourcegroups"
+            | where id == "${resourceGroupURI}"
+            | project resourceGroupName=name, resourceGroup, subscriptionId
+        ) on subscriptionId
+
+        | join kind=leftouter (
+          resources
+            | where id == "${resourceURI}"
+            | project resourceName=name, subscriptionId
+        ) on subscriptionId
+
+        | project subscriptionName, resourceGroupName, resourceName
     `;
 
     const { ok, data: response } = await this.makeResourceGraphRequest<AzureResourceSummaryItem[]>(query);
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/types/index.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/types/index.ts
index 22b6c64dc7d6..cb696c186dad 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/types/index.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/grafana-azure-monitor-datasource/types/index.ts
@@ -230,10 +230,9 @@ export interface AzureQueryEditorFieldProps {
 }
 
 export interface AzureResourceSummaryItem {
-  id: string;
-  name: string;
   subscriptionName: string;
-  resourceGroupName: string;
+  resourceGroupName: string | undefined;
+  resourceName: string | undefined;
 }
 
 export interface RawAzureResourceGroupItem {