diff --git a/cmd/sling/sling_logic.go b/cmd/sling/sling_logic.go
index ce5d99629..339f01d16 100755
--- a/cmd/sling/sling_logic.go
+++ b/cmd/sling/sling_logic.go
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ package main
 import (
 	"os"
 	"runtime"
-	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
@@ -236,7 +235,7 @@ func runReplication(cfgPath string, selectStreams ...string) (err error) {
 
 	eG := g.ErrorGroup{}
 	counter := 0
-	for _, name := range sort.StringSlice(lo.Keys(replication.Streams)) {
+	for _, name := range replication.StreamsOrdered() {
 		if interrupted {
 			break
 		}
diff --git a/core/sling/replication.go b/core/sling/replication.go
index d8f54aa7b..27e8c2148 100644
--- a/core/sling/replication.go
+++ b/core/sling/replication.go
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ type ReplicationConfig struct {
 	Target   string                              `json:"target,omitempty" yaml:"target,omitempty"`
 	Defaults ReplicationStreamConfig             `json:"defaults,omitempty" yaml:"defaults,omitempty"`
 	Streams  map[string]*ReplicationStreamConfig `json:"streams,omitempty" yaml:"streams,omitempty"`
+
+	streamsOrdered []string
 }
 
 // Scan scan value into Jsonb, implements sql.Scanner interface
@@ -31,6 +33,11 @@ func (rd ReplicationConfig) Value() (driver.Value, error) {
 	return g.JSONValuer(rd, "{}")
 }
 
+// StreamsOrdered returns the stream names as ordered in the YAML file
+func (rd ReplicationConfig) StreamsOrdered() []string {
+	return rd.streamsOrdered
+}
+
 // ProcessWildcards process the streams using wildcards
 // such as `my_schema.*` or `my_schema.my_prefix_*` or `my_schema.*_my_suffix`
 func (rd *ReplicationConfig) ProcessWildcards() (err error) {
@@ -195,6 +202,23 @@ func UnmarshalReplication(replicYAML string) (config ReplicationConfig, err erro
 		return
 	}
 
+	// get streams order
+	rootMap := yaml.MapSlice{}
+	err = yaml.Unmarshal([]byte(replicYAML), &rootMap)
+	if err != nil {
+		err = g.Error(err, "Error parsing yaml content")
+		return
+	}
+
+	for _, rootNode := range rootMap {
+		if cast.ToString(rootNode.Key) == "streams" {
+			streamsNodes := rootNode.Value.(yaml.MapSlice)
+			for _, streamsNode := range streamsNodes {
+				config.streamsOrdered = append(config.streamsOrdered, cast.ToString(streamsNode.Key))
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	return
 }
 
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 3fa10fcdb..917254b23 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/c-bata/go-prompt v0.2.6
 	github.com/denisbrodbeck/machineid v1.0.1
 	github.com/dustin/go-humanize v1.0.0
-	github.com/flarco/dbio v0.3.252
+	github.com/flarco/dbio v0.3.253
 	github.com/flarco/g v0.1.61
 	github.com/getsentry/sentry-go v0.11.0
 	github.com/integrii/flaggy v1.5.2