diff --git a/clients/pkg/promtail/targets/lokipush/pushtarget_test.go b/clients/pkg/promtail/targets/lokipush/pushtarget_test.go
index 24f1bbe81f..6181b5dd8a 100644
--- a/clients/pkg/promtail/targets/lokipush/pushtarget_test.go
+++ b/clients/pkg/promtail/targets/lokipush/pushtarget_test.go
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ func TestPlaintextPushTarget(t *testing.T) {
 	require.Equal(t, expectedLabels, eh.Received()[0].Labels)
 
 	// Timestamp is always set in the handler, we expect received timestamps to be slightly higher than the timestamp when we started sending logs.
-	require.GreaterOrEqual(t, ts.Unix(), eh.Received()[99].Timestamp.Unix())
+	require.GreaterOrEqual(t, eh.Received()[99].Timestamp.Unix(), ts.Unix())
 
 	_ = pt.Stop()