diff --git a/public/app/features/correlations/CorrelationsPage.test.tsx b/public/app/features/correlations/CorrelationsPage.test.tsx
index f143a2bed43..9b9430cd34c 100644
--- a/public/app/features/correlations/CorrelationsPage.test.tsx
+++ b/public/app/features/correlations/CorrelationsPage.test.tsx
@@ -2,58 +2,28 @@ import { render, waitFor, screen, fireEvent, within, Matcher, getByRole } from '
 import userEvent from '@testing-library/user-event';
 import { merge, uniqueId } from 'lodash';
 import React from 'react';
-import { DeepPartial } from 'react-hook-form';
 import { Observable } from 'rxjs';
 import { TestProvider } from 'test/helpers/TestProvider';
 import { MockDataSourceApi } from 'test/mocks/datasource_srv';
 import { getGrafanaContextMock } from 'test/mocks/getGrafanaContextMock';
 
 import { DataSourcePluginMeta } from '@grafana/data';
-import {
-  BackendSrv,
-  FetchError,
-  FetchResponse,
-  setDataSourceSrv,
-  BackendSrvRequest,
-  reportInteraction,
-} from '@grafana/runtime';
+import { BackendSrv, setDataSourceSrv, BackendSrvRequest, reportInteraction } from '@grafana/runtime';
 import { contextSrv } from 'app/core/services/context_srv';
 import { configureStore } from 'app/store/configureStore';
 
 import { mockDataSource, MockDataSourceSrv } from '../alerting/unified/mocks';
 
 import CorrelationsPage from './CorrelationsPage';
+import {
+  createCreateCorrelationResponse,
+  createFetchCorrelationsError,
+  createFetchCorrelationsResponse,
+  createRemoveCorrelationResponse,
+  createUpdateCorrelationResponse,
+} from './__mocks__/useCorrelations.mocks';
 import { Correlation, CreateCorrelationParams } from './types';
 
-function createFetchResponse<T>(overrides?: DeepPartial<FetchResponse>): FetchResponse<T> {
-  return merge(
-    {
-      data: undefined,
-      status: 200,
-      url: '',
-      config: { url: '' },
-      type: 'basic',
-      statusText: 'Ok',
-      redirected: false,
-      headers: {} as unknown as Headers,
-      ok: true,
-    },
-    overrides
-  );
-}
-
-function createFetchError(overrides?: DeepPartial<FetchError>): FetchError {
-  return merge(
-    createFetchResponse(),
-    {
-      status: 500,
-      statusText: 'Internal Server Error',
-      ok: false,
-    },
-    overrides
-  );
-}
-
 const renderWithContext = async (
   datasources: ConstructorParameters<typeof MockDataSourceSrv>[0] = {},
   correlations: Correlation[] = []
@@ -67,19 +37,10 @@ const renderWithContext = async (
       if (matches?.groups) {
         const { dsUid, correlationUid } = matches.groups;
         correlations = correlations.filter((c) => c.uid !== correlationUid || c.sourceUID !== dsUid);
-        return createFetchResponse({
-          data: {
-            message: 'Correlation deleted',
-          },
-        });
+        return createRemoveCorrelationResponse();
       }
 
-      throw createFetchError({
-        data: {
-          message: 'Correlation not found',
-        },
-        status: 404,
-      });
+      throw createFetchCorrelationsError();
     },
     post: async (url: string, data: Omit<CreateCorrelationParams, 'sourceUID'>) => {
       const matches = url.match(/^\/api\/datasources\/uid\/(?<sourceUID>[a-zA-Z0-9]+)\/correlations$/);
@@ -87,15 +48,10 @@ const renderWithContext = async (
         const { sourceUID } = matches.groups;
         const correlation = { sourceUID, ...data, uid: uniqueId() };
         correlations.push(correlation);
-        return correlation;
+        return createCreateCorrelationResponse(correlation);
       }
 
-      throw createFetchError({
-        status: 404,
-        data: {
-          message: 'Source datasource not found',
-        },
-      });
+      throw createFetchCorrelationsError();
     },
     patch: async (url: string, data: Omit<CreateCorrelationParams, 'sourceUID'>) => {
       const matches = url.match(
@@ -109,20 +65,14 @@ const renderWithContext = async (
           }
           return c;
         });
-        return createFetchResponse({
-          data: { sourceUID, ...data },
-        });
+        return createUpdateCorrelationResponse({ sourceUID, ...data, uid: uniqueId() });
       }
 
-      throw createFetchError({
-        data: { message: 'either correlation uid or source id not found' },
-        status: 404,
-      });
+      throw createFetchCorrelationsError();
     },
     fetch: (options: BackendSrvRequest) => {
       return new Observable((s) => {
-        s.next(merge(createFetchResponse({ url: options.url, data: correlations })));
-
+        s.next(merge(createFetchCorrelationsResponse({ url: options.url, data: correlations })));
         s.complete();
       });
     },
diff --git a/public/app/features/correlations/__mocks__/useCorrelations.mocks.ts b/public/app/features/correlations/__mocks__/useCorrelations.mocks.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d95500dc376
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/app/features/correlations/__mocks__/useCorrelations.mocks.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+import { merge } from 'lodash';
+import { DeepPartial } from 'react-hook-form';
+
+import { FetchError, FetchResponse } from '@grafana/runtime';
+
+import { Correlation, CreateCorrelationResponse, RemoveCorrelationResponse, UpdateCorrelationResponse } from '../types';
+
+export function createFetchCorrelationsResponse<T>(overrides?: DeepPartial<FetchResponse>): FetchResponse<T> {
+  return merge(
+    {
+      data: undefined,
+      status: 200,
+      url: '',
+      config: { url: '' },
+      type: 'basic',
+      statusText: 'Ok',
+      redirected: false,
+      headers: {} as unknown as Headers,
+      ok: true,
+    },
+    overrides
+  );
+}
+
+export function createFetchCorrelationsError(overrides?: DeepPartial<FetchError>): FetchError {
+  return merge(
+    createFetchCorrelationsResponse(),
+    {
+      status: 500,
+      statusText: 'Internal Server Error',
+      ok: false,
+    },
+    overrides
+  );
+}
+
+export function createCreateCorrelationResponse(correlation: Correlation): CreateCorrelationResponse {
+  return {
+    message: 'Correlation created',
+    result: correlation,
+  };
+}
+
+export function createUpdateCorrelationResponse(correlation: Correlation): UpdateCorrelationResponse {
+  return {
+    message: 'Correlation updated',
+    result: correlation,
+  };
+}
+
+export function createRemoveCorrelationResponse(): RemoveCorrelationResponse {
+  return {
+    message: 'Correlation removed',
+  };
+}
diff --git a/public/app/features/correlations/types.ts b/public/app/features/correlations/types.ts
index ae3b6950b4c..08ee7328dde 100644
--- a/public/app/features/correlations/types.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/correlations/types.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,26 @@ export interface AddCorrelationResponse {
 
 export type GetCorrelationsResponse = Correlation[];
 
+export interface CorrelationsApiResponse {
+  message: string;
+}
+
+export interface CorrelationsErrorResponse extends CorrelationsApiResponse {
+  error: string;
+}
+
+export interface CreateCorrelationResponse extends CorrelationsApiResponse {
+  result: Correlation;
+}
+
+export interface UpdateCorrelationResponse extends CorrelationsApiResponse {
+  result: Correlation;
+}
+
+export interface RemoveCorrelationResponse {
+  message: string;
+}
+
 type CorrelationConfigType = 'query';
 
 export interface CorrelationConfig {
diff --git a/public/app/features/correlations/useCorrelations.ts b/public/app/features/correlations/useCorrelations.ts
index b013a0d99d6..55729366cf9 100644
--- a/public/app/features/correlations/useCorrelations.ts
+++ b/public/app/features/correlations/useCorrelations.ts
@@ -5,7 +5,15 @@ import { DataSourceInstanceSettings } from '@grafana/data';
 import { getDataSourceSrv, FetchResponse } from '@grafana/runtime';
 import { useGrafana } from 'app/core/context/GrafanaContext';
 
-import { Correlation, CreateCorrelationParams, RemoveCorrelationParams, UpdateCorrelationParams } from './types';
+import {
+  Correlation,
+  CreateCorrelationParams,
+  CreateCorrelationResponse,
+  RemoveCorrelationParams,
+  RemoveCorrelationResponse,
+  UpdateCorrelationParams,
+  UpdateCorrelationResponse,
+} from './types';
 
 export interface CorrelationData extends Omit<Correlation, 'sourceUID' | 'targetUID'> {
   source: DataSourceInstanceSettings;
@@ -44,20 +52,25 @@ export const useCorrelations = () => {
 
   const [createInfo, create] = useAsyncFn<(params: CreateCorrelationParams) => Promise<CorrelationData>>(
     ({ sourceUID, ...correlation }) =>
-      backend.post(`/api/datasources/uid/${sourceUID}/correlations`, correlation).then(toEnrichedCorrelationData),
+      backend
+        .post<CreateCorrelationResponse>(`/api/datasources/uid/${sourceUID}/correlations`, correlation)
+        .then((response) => {
+          return toEnrichedCorrelationData(response.result);
+        }),
     [backend]
   );
 
   const [removeInfo, remove] = useAsyncFn<(params: RemoveCorrelationParams) => Promise<{ message: string }>>(
-    ({ sourceUID, uid }) => backend.delete(`/api/datasources/uid/${sourceUID}/correlations/${uid}`),
+    ({ sourceUID, uid }) =>
+      backend.delete<RemoveCorrelationResponse>(`/api/datasources/uid/${sourceUID}/correlations/${uid}`),
     [backend]
   );
 
   const [updateInfo, update] = useAsyncFn<(params: UpdateCorrelationParams) => Promise<CorrelationData>>(
     ({ sourceUID, uid, ...correlation }) =>
       backend
-        .patch(`/api/datasources/uid/${sourceUID}/correlations/${uid}`, correlation)
-        .then(toEnrichedCorrelationData),
+        .patch<UpdateCorrelationResponse>(`/api/datasources/uid/${sourceUID}/correlations/${uid}`, correlation)
+        .then((response) => toEnrichedCorrelationData(response.result)),
     [backend]
   );