diff --git a/src/platform/plugins/shared/console/public/application/containers/editor/monaco_editor_actions_provider.test.ts b/src/platform/plugins/shared/console/public/application/containers/editor/monaco_editor_actions_provider.test.ts
index fa290a69ab2c8..670173b8faffd 100644
--- a/src/platform/plugins/shared/console/public/application/containers/editor/monaco_editor_actions_provider.test.ts
+++ b/src/platform/plugins/shared/console/public/application/containers/editor/monaco_editor_actions_provider.test.ts
@@ -281,6 +281,24 @@ describe('Editor actions provider', () => {
       );
     });
 
+    it('orders method suggestions with GET first and DELETE last using sortText', async () => {
+      // Monaco sorts completion items by sortText, falling back to label. Without
+      // an explicit sortText, alphabetical sorting puts DELETE first (#259251).
+      mockGetParsedRequests.mockResolvedValue([]);
+      const completionItems = await editorActionsProvider.provideCompletionItems(
+        mockModel,
+        mockPosition,
+        mockContext
+      );
+      const sortedByMonaco = [...(completionItems?.suggestions ?? [])].sort((a, b) =>
+        String(a.sortText ?? a.label).localeCompare(String(b.sortText ?? b.label))
+      );
+      const orderedLabels = sortedByMonaco.map((s) => s.label);
+      expect(orderedLabels[0]).toBe('GET');
+      expect(orderedLabels[orderedLabels.length - 1]).toBe('DELETE');
+      expect(orderedLabels).toEqual(['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'PATCH', 'HEAD', 'DELETE']);
+    });
+
     it('returns completion items for url path if method already typed in', async () => {
       // mock a parsed request that only has a method
       mockGetParsedRequests.mockResolvedValue([
diff --git a/src/platform/plugins/shared/console/public/application/containers/editor/utils/autocomplete_utils.ts b/src/platform/plugins/shared/console/public/application/containers/editor/utils/autocomplete_utils.ts
index 4d75a0e6b064e..6d5602d512884 100644
--- a/src/platform/plugins/shared/console/public/application/containers/editor/utils/autocomplete_utils.ts
+++ b/src/platform/plugins/shared/console/public/application/containers/editor/utils/autocomplete_utils.ts
@@ -59,21 +59,27 @@ const filterTermsWithoutName = (terms: ResultTerm[]): ResultTerm[] =>
   terms.filter((term) => term.name !== undefined && term.name !== '');
 
 /*
- * This function returns an array of completion items for the request method
+ * This function returns an array of completion items for the request method.
+ *
+ * The order is deliberate: Monaco sorts completion items by `sortText` and
+ * falls back to alphabetical label sorting, which would otherwise put DELETE
+ * first (#259251). GET is the safest verb to accept by default and DELETE
+ * the most destructive, so we pin GET first and DELETE last.
  */
-const autocompleteMethods = ['GET', 'PUT', 'POST', 'DELETE', 'HEAD', 'PATCH'];
+const autocompleteMethods = ['GET', 'POST', 'PUT', 'PATCH', 'HEAD', 'DELETE'];
 export const getMethodCompletionItems = (
   model: monaco.editor.ITextModel,
   position: monaco.Position
 ): monaco.languages.CompletionItem[] => {
   // get the word before suggestions to replace when selecting a suggestion from the list
   const wordUntilPosition = model.getWordUntilPosition(position);
-  return autocompleteMethods.map((method) => ({
+  return autocompleteMethods.map((method, index) => ({
     label: method,
     insertText: method,
     detail: i18nTexts.method,
     // only used to configure the icon
     kind: monaco.languages.CompletionItemKind.Constant,
+    sortText: String(index),
     range: {
       // replace the whole word with the suggestion
       startColumn: wordUntilPosition.startColumn,