diff --git a/pkg/tsdb/loki/loki.go b/pkg/tsdb/loki/loki.go
index 1737a040d3f..de933cd2d0f 100644
--- a/pkg/tsdb/loki/loki.go
+++ b/pkg/tsdb/loki/loki.go
@@ -141,10 +141,12 @@ func (s *Service) QueryData(ctx context.Context, req *backend.QueryDataRequest)
 		span.SetTag("stop_unixnano", query.End.UnixNano())
 		defer span.Finish()
 
-		//Currently hard coded as not used - applies to log queries
-		limit := 1000
-		//Currently hard coded as not used - applies to queries which produce a stream response
-		interval := time.Second * 1
+		// `limit` only applies to log-producing queries, and we
+		// currently only support metric queries, so this can be set to any value.
+		limit := 1
+
+		// we do not use `interval`, so we set it to zero
+		interval := time.Duration(0)
 
 		value, err := client.QueryRange(query.Expr, limit, query.Start, query.End, logproto.BACKWARD, query.Step, interval, false)
 		if err != nil {