diff --git a/pkg/logqlmodel/stats/context.go b/pkg/logqlmodel/stats/context.go
index b4342581a277e..dc1fe9356f4a6 100644
--- a/pkg/logqlmodel/stats/context.go
+++ b/pkg/logqlmodel/stats/context.go
@@ -170,14 +170,6 @@ func JoinIngesters(ctx context.Context, inc Ingester) {
 	stats.ingester.Merge(inc)
 }
 
-func JoinIndex(ctx context.Context, inc Index) {
-	stats := FromContext(ctx)
-	stats.mtx.Lock()
-	defer stats.mtx.Unlock()
-
-	stats.index.Merge(inc)
-}
-
 // ComputeSummary compute the summary of the statistics.
 func (r *Result) ComputeSummary(execTime time.Duration, queueTime time.Duration, totalEntriesReturned int) {
 	r.Summary.TotalBytesProcessed = r.Querier.Store.Chunk.DecompressedBytes + r.Querier.Store.Chunk.HeadChunkBytes +
diff --git a/pkg/querier/queryrange/codec_test.go b/pkg/querier/queryrange/codec_test.go
index fa6fa9e036711..b615d73b09c01 100644
--- a/pkg/querier/queryrange/codec_test.go
+++ b/pkg/querier/queryrange/codec_test.go
@@ -1593,6 +1593,10 @@ var (
 				"queryReferencedStructuredMetadata": true
 			}
 		},
+		"index": {
+			"postFilterChunks": 0,
+			"totalChunks": 0
+		},
 		"cache": {
 			"chunk": {
 				"entriesFound": 0,
diff --git a/pkg/querier/queryrange/prometheus_test.go b/pkg/querier/queryrange/prometheus_test.go
index 80e4f5367afb0..624c8b5194eec 100644
--- a/pkg/querier/queryrange/prometheus_test.go
+++ b/pkg/querier/queryrange/prometheus_test.go
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ import (
 )
 
 var emptyStats = `"stats": {
+	"index": {
+		"postFilterChunks": 0,
+		"totalChunks": 0
+	},
 	"ingester" : {
 		"store": {
 			"chunksDownloadTime": 0,
diff --git a/pkg/storage/stores/shipper/indexshipper/indexgateway/gateway.go b/pkg/storage/stores/shipper/indexshipper/indexgateway/gateway.go
index 7eb5b8ad2a678..124fe4f933d32 100644
--- a/pkg/storage/stores/shipper/indexshipper/indexgateway/gateway.go
+++ b/pkg/storage/stores/shipper/indexshipper/indexgateway/gateway.go
@@ -439,19 +439,25 @@ func (g *Gateway) getShardsWithBlooms(
 	}
 	g.metrics.preFilterChunks.WithLabelValues(routeShards).Observe(float64(ct))
 	g.metrics.postFilterChunks.WithLabelValues(routeShards).Observe(float64(len(filtered)))
-	stats.JoinIndex(ctx, stats.Index{
-		TotalChunks:      int64(ct),
-		PostFilterChunks: int64(len(filtered)),
-	})
+
+	statistics := stats.Result{
+		Index: stats.Index{
+			TotalChunks:      int64(ct),
+			PostFilterChunks: int64(len(filtered)),
+		},
+	}
 
 	// Edge case: if there are no chunks after filtering, we still need to return a single shard
 	if len(filtered) == 0 {
-		return server.Send(&logproto.ShardsResponse{Shards: []logproto.Shard{
-			{
-				Bounds: logproto.FPBounds{Min: 0, Max: math.MaxUint64},
-				Stats:  &logproto.IndexStatsResponse{},
+		return server.Send(&logproto.ShardsResponse{
+			Shards: []logproto.Shard{
+				{
+					Bounds: logproto.FPBounds{Min: 0, Max: math.MaxUint64},
+					Stats:  &logproto.IndexStatsResponse{},
+				},
 			},
-		}})
+			Statistics: statistics,
+		})
 	}
 
 	shards, err := accumulateChunksToShards(ctx, instanceID, forSeries, req, p, filtered)
@@ -460,7 +466,10 @@ func (g *Gateway) getShardsWithBlooms(
 	}
 
 	// 3) build shards
-	return server.Send(&logproto.ShardsResponse{Shards: shards})
+	return server.Send(&logproto.ShardsResponse{
+		Shards:     shards,
+		Statistics: statistics,
+	})
 }
 
 // ExtractShardRequestMatchersAndAST extracts the matchers and AST from a query string.