diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/querySplitting.test.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/querySplitting.test.ts
index 4484ef2f481..107a2bf548f 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/querySplitting.test.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/querySplitting.test.ts
@@ -45,7 +45,10 @@ describe('runSplitQuery()', () => {
       .spyOn(datasource, 'runQuery')
       .mockReturnValue(of({ state: LoadingState.Error, error: { refId: 'A', message: 'Error' }, data: [] }));
     await expect(runSplitQuery(datasource, request)).toEmitValuesWith((values) => {
-      expect(values).toEqual([{ error: { refId: 'A', message: 'Error' }, data: [], state: LoadingState.Streaming }]);
+      expect(values).toHaveLength(1);
+      expect(values[0]).toEqual(
+        expect.objectContaining({ error: { refId: 'A', message: 'Error' }, state: LoadingState.Streaming })
+      );
     });
   });
 
diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/querySplitting.ts b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/querySplitting.ts
index b64bcbc32ac..cbb3df4f720 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/querySplitting.ts
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/loki/querySplitting.ts
@@ -3,8 +3,10 @@ import { Observable, Subscriber, Subscription, tap } from 'rxjs';
 import { v4 as uuidv4 } from 'uuid';
 
 import {
+  arrayToDataFrame,
   DataQueryRequest,
   DataQueryResponse,
+  DataTopic,
   dateTime,
   durationToMilliseconds,
   parseDuration,
@@ -84,6 +86,7 @@ function adjustTargetsFromResponseState(targets: LokiQuery[], response: DataQuer
 export function runSplitGroupedQueries(datasource: LokiDatasource, requests: LokiGroupedRequest[]) {
   let mergedResponse: DataQueryResponse = { data: [], state: LoadingState.Streaming };
   const totalRequests = Math.max(...requests.map(({ partition }) => partition.length));
+  const longestPartition = requests.filter(({ partition }) => partition.length === totalRequests)[0].partition;
 
   let shouldStop = false;
   let subquerySubsciption: Subscription | null = null;
@@ -126,6 +129,7 @@ export function runSplitGroupedQueries(datasource: LokiDatasource, requests: Lok
     subquerySubsciption = datasource.runQuery(subRequest).subscribe({
       next: (partialResponse) => {
         mergedResponse = combineResponses(mergedResponse, partialResponse);
+        mergedResponse = updateLoadingFrame(mergedResponse, subRequest, longestPartition, requestN);
         if ((mergedResponse.errors ?? []).length > 0 || mergedResponse.error != null) {
           shouldStop = true;
         }
@@ -153,6 +157,44 @@ export function runSplitGroupedQueries(datasource: LokiDatasource, requests: Lok
   return response;
 }
 
+function updateLoadingFrame(
+  response: DataQueryResponse,
+  request: DataQueryRequest<LokiQuery>,
+  partition: TimeRange[],
+  requestN: number
+): DataQueryResponse {
+  if (isLogsQuery(request.targets[0].expr) || isLogsVolumeRequest(request)) {
+    return response;
+  }
+  const loadingFrameName = 'loki-splitting-progress';
+  response.data = response.data.filter((frame) => frame.name !== loadingFrameName);
+
+  if (requestN <= 1) {
+    return response;
+  }
+
+  const loadingFrame = arrayToDataFrame([
+    {
+      time: partition[0].from.valueOf(),
+      timeEnd: partition[requestN - 2].to.valueOf(),
+      isRegion: true,
+      color: 'rgba(120, 120, 120, 0.1)',
+    },
+  ]);
+  loadingFrame.name = loadingFrameName;
+  loadingFrame.meta = {
+    dataTopic: DataTopic.Annotations,
+  };
+
+  response.data.push(loadingFrame);
+
+  return response;
+}
+
+function isLogsVolumeRequest(request: DataQueryRequest<LokiQuery>): boolean {
+  return request.targets.some((target) => target.refId.startsWith('log-volume'));
+}
+
 function getNextRequestPointers(requests: LokiGroupedRequest[], requestGroup: number, requestN: number) {
   // There's a pending request from the next group:
   for (let i = requestGroup + 1; i < requests.length; i++) {