diff --git a/pkg/bloomgateway/bloomgateway.go b/pkg/bloomgateway/bloomgateway.go
index 414658365435a..766c05bab457c 100644
--- a/pkg/bloomgateway/bloomgateway.go
+++ b/pkg/bloomgateway/bloomgateway.go
@@ -339,6 +339,7 @@ func (g *Gateway) FilterChunkRefs(ctx context.Context, req *logproto.FilterChunk
 	responses := responsesPool.Get(requestCount)
 	defer responsesPool.Put(responses)
 
+outer:
 	for {
 		select {
 		case <-ctx.Done():
@@ -351,19 +352,24 @@ func (g *Gateway) FilterChunkRefs(ctx context.Context, req *logproto.FilterChunk
 			level.Debug(g.logger).Log("msg", "got partial result", "task", task.ID, "tenant", tenantID, "fp_int", uint64(res.Fp), "fp_hex", res.Fp, "chunks_to_remove", res.Removals.Len(), "progress", fmt.Sprintf("%d/%d", len(responses), requestCount))
 			// wait for all parts of the full response
 			if len(responses) == requestCount {
-				for _, o := range responses {
-					if o.Removals.Len() == 0 {
-						continue
-					}
-					// we must not remove items from req.Refs as long as the worker may iterater over them
-					g.removeNotMatchingChunks(req, o)
-				}
-				g.metrics.addUnfilteredCount(numChunksUnfiltered)
-				g.metrics.addFilteredCount(len(req.Refs))
-				return &logproto.FilterChunkRefResponse{ChunkRefs: req.Refs}, nil
+				break outer
 			}
 		}
 	}
+
+	for _, o := range responses {
+		if o.Removals.Len() == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		// we must not remove items from req.Refs as long as the worker may iterater over them
+		g.removeNotMatchingChunks(req, o)
+	}
+
+	g.metrics.addUnfilteredCount(numChunksUnfiltered)
+	g.metrics.addFilteredCount(len(req.Refs))
+
+	level.Debug(g.logger).Log("msg", "return filtered chunk refs", "unfiltered", numChunksUnfiltered, "filtered", len(req.Refs))
+	return &logproto.FilterChunkRefResponse{ChunkRefs: req.Refs}, nil
 }
 
 func (g *Gateway) removeNotMatchingChunks(req *logproto.FilterChunkRefRequest, res v1.Output) {
diff --git a/pkg/bloomgateway/worker.go b/pkg/bloomgateway/worker.go
index 73f327043abd5..ce5add3c63f3d 100644
--- a/pkg/bloomgateway/worker.go
+++ b/pkg/bloomgateway/worker.go
@@ -221,20 +221,17 @@ func (w *worker) processBlocksWithCallback(taskCtx context.Context, tenant strin
 	return w.store.ForEach(taskCtx, tenant, blockRefs, func(bq *v1.BlockQuerier, minFp, maxFp uint64) error {
 		for _, b := range boundedRefs {
 			if b.blockRef.MinFingerprint == minFp && b.blockRef.MaxFingerprint == maxFp {
-				w.processBlock(bq, day, b.tasks)
-				return nil
+				return w.processBlock(bq, day, b.tasks)
 			}
 		}
 		return nil
 	})
 }
 
-func (w *worker) processBlock(blockQuerier *v1.BlockQuerier, day time.Time, tasks []Task) {
+func (w *worker) processBlock(blockQuerier *v1.BlockQuerier, day time.Time, tasks []Task) error {
 	schema, err := blockQuerier.Schema()
 	if err != nil {
-		for _, t := range tasks {
-			t.ErrCh <- errors.Wrap(err, "failed to get block schema")
-		}
+		return err
 	}
 
 	tokenizer := v1.NewNGramTokenizer(schema.NGramLen(), 0)
@@ -243,13 +240,13 @@ func (w *worker) processBlock(blockQuerier *v1.BlockQuerier, day time.Time, task
 
 	start := time.Now()
 	err = fq.Run()
+	duration := time.Since(start).Seconds()
 
-	label := "success"
 	if err != nil {
-		label = "failure"
-		for _, t := range tasks {
-			t.ErrCh <- errors.Wrap(err, "failed to run chunk check")
-		}
+		w.metrics.bloomQueryLatency.WithLabelValues(w.id, "failure").Observe(duration)
+		return err
 	}
-	w.metrics.bloomQueryLatency.WithLabelValues(w.id, label).Observe(time.Since(start).Seconds())
+
+	w.metrics.bloomQueryLatency.WithLabelValues(w.id, "success").Observe(duration)
+	return nil
 }