I have no problem with my pie 
I was quoting you. So in order to sort it properly give the status a numeric value you can sort on
did anyone find a pure Grafana solution to the problem, not involving changes to how data is retrieved? How to sort pie legend by label name, not by value or %
To sort by label name, I think the best solution is to change how you send data to your database. Instead of sending critical, warning, etc. Send it as Label1_Critical, Label2_warning, etc. Then use the display name override in grafana. Not elegant but it works