diff --git a/spring-boot-admin-server-ui/src/main/frontend/views/journal/InstanceEvent.ts b/spring-boot-admin-server-ui/src/main/frontend/views/journal/InstanceEvent.ts
index a7c43607f25..d1960f53c7e 100644
--- a/spring-boot-admin-server-ui/src/main/frontend/views/journal/InstanceEvent.ts
+++ b/spring-boot-admin-server-ui/src/main/frontend/views/journal/InstanceEvent.ts
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export class InstanceEvent implements IInstanceEvent {
   }
 
   get key() {
-    return `${this.instance}-${this.version}`;
+    return `${this.instance}-${this.version}-${this.type}-${this.timestamp.getTime()}`;
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/spring-boot-admin-server-ui/src/main/frontend/views/journal/deduplicate-events.spec.ts b/spring-boot-admin-server-ui/src/main/frontend/views/journal/deduplicate-events.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e83ab07fd48
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-admin-server-ui/src/main/frontend/views/journal/deduplicate-events.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+import { describe, expect, it } from 'vitest';
+
+import { deduplicateInstanceEvents } from './deduplicate-events';
+
+import {
+  InstanceEvent,
+  InstanceEventType,
+} from '@/views/journal/InstanceEvent';
+
+const createEvent = (
+  instance: string,
+  version: number,
+  type = InstanceEventType.REGISTERED,
+) =>
+  new InstanceEvent({
+    instance,
+    version,
+    type,
+    timestamp: '2024-01-01T10:00:00Z',
+    registration: { name: instance },
+  });
+
+describe('deduplicateInstanceEvents', () => {
+  it('removes events with identical instance, type and version', () => {
+    const events = [
+      createEvent('instance-1', 1),
+      createEvent('instance-1', 1, InstanceEventType.DEREGISTERED),
+      createEvent('instance-2', 3),
+      createEvent('instance-2', 3),
+      createEvent('instance-3', 2),
+      createEvent('instance-3', 2, InstanceEventType.INFO_CHANGED),
+      createEvent('instance-3', 2, InstanceEventType.INFO_CHANGED),
+    ];
+
+    const result = deduplicateInstanceEvents(events);
+
+    expect(result).toHaveLength(5);
+    expect(result.map((event) => event.key)).toEqual([
+      'instance-1-1-REGISTERED-1704103200000',
+      'instance-1-1-DEREGISTERED-1704103200000',
+      'instance-2-3-REGISTERED-1704103200000',
+      'instance-3-2-REGISTERED-1704103200000',
+      'instance-3-2-INFO_CHANGED-1704103200000',
+    ]);
+  });
+
+  it('preserves the order of the first occurrences', () => {
+    const events = [
+      createEvent('instance-1', 2),
+      createEvent('instance-2', 1),
+      createEvent('instance-1', 2),
+      createEvent('instance-3', 4),
+    ];
+
+    const result = deduplicateInstanceEvents(events);
+
+    expect(result.map((event) => event.key)).toEqual([
+      'instance-1-2-REGISTERED-1704103200000',
+      'instance-2-1-REGISTERED-1704103200000',
+      'instance-3-4-REGISTERED-1704103200000',
+    ]);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/spring-boot-admin-server-ui/src/main/frontend/views/journal/deduplicate-events.ts b/spring-boot-admin-server-ui/src/main/frontend/views/journal/deduplicate-events.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..71b37b505cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/spring-boot-admin-server-ui/src/main/frontend/views/journal/deduplicate-events.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+import { InstanceEvent } from '@/views/journal/InstanceEvent';
+
+/**
+ * Removes duplicate instance events from an array based on their key property.
+ *
+ * This function filters an array of InstanceEvent objects, keeping only the first occurrence
+ * of each unique event key. Subsequent events with the same key are filtered out.
+ *
+ * @param events - Array of InstanceEvent objects to deduplicate
+ * @returns A new array containing only unique events (by key), preserving the order of first occurrence
+ *
+ * @example
+ * const events = [
+ *   { key: 'event1', ... },
+ *   { key: 'event2', ... },
+ *   { key: 'event1', ... } // duplicate
+ * ];
+ * const unique = deduplicateInstanceEvents(events);
+ * // Returns first two events only
+ */
+export function deduplicateInstanceEvents(events: InstanceEvent[]) {
+  const seen = new Set<string>();
+  return events.filter((event) => {
+    if (seen.has(event.key)) {
+      return false;
+    }
+    seen.add(event.key);
+    return true;
+  });
+}
diff --git a/spring-boot-admin-server-ui/src/main/frontend/views/journal/index.vue b/spring-boot-admin-server-ui/src/main/frontend/views/journal/index.vue
index 19bd97580f8..51af1b241c6 100644
--- a/spring-boot-admin-server-ui/src/main/frontend/views/journal/index.vue
+++ b/spring-boot-admin-server-ui/src/main/frontend/views/journal/index.vue
@@ -46,11 +46,10 @@ import { useDateTimeFormatter } from '@/composables/useDateTimeFormatter';
 import subscribing from '@/mixins/subscribing';
 import Instance from '@/services/instance';
 import { compareBy } from '@/utils/collections';
-import {
-  InstanceEvent,
-  InstanceEventType,
-} from '@/views/journal/InstanceEvent';
+import { InstanceEvent } from '@/views/journal/InstanceEvent';
+import { InstanceEventType } from '@/views/journal/InstanceEvent';
 import JournalTable from '@/views/journal/JournalTable.vue';
+import { deduplicateInstanceEvents } from '@/views/journal/deduplicate-events';
 
 export default {
   components: { JournalTable, SbaAlert },
@@ -67,6 +66,7 @@ export default {
   data: () => ({
     Event,
     events: [],
+    seenEventKeys: new Set(),
     listOffset: 0,
     showPayload: {},
     pageSize: 25,
@@ -104,7 +104,10 @@ export default {
         .reverse()
         .map((e) => new InstanceEvent(e));
 
-      this.events = Object.freeze(events);
+      const deduplicated = deduplicateInstanceEvents(events);
+      this.seenEventKeys = new Set(deduplicated.map((event) => event.key));
+      this.events = Object.freeze(deduplicated);
+      this.listOffset = events.length - deduplicated.length;
       this.error = null;
     } catch (error) {
       console.warn('Fetching events failed:', error);
@@ -119,10 +122,12 @@ export default {
       return Instance.getEventStream().subscribe({
         next: (message) => {
           this.error = null;
-          this.events = Object.freeze([
-            new InstanceEvent(message.data),
-            ...this.events,
-          ]);
+          const incomingEvent = new InstanceEvent(message.data);
+          if (this.seenEventKeys.has(incomingEvent.key)) {
+            return;
+          }
+          this.seenEventKeys.add(incomingEvent.key);
+          this.events = Object.freeze([incomingEvent, ...this.events]);
           this.listOffset += 1;
         },
         error: (error) => {