diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 74252e8..79419a3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 * [CHANGE] Increase CortexProvisioningTooManyWrites alert threshold to 160e3
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Configure `-ingester.client.grpc-compression` to be `snappy-block`
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Support Grafana 11 in Cortex Service Scaling Dashboard
+* [BUGFIX] Remove deprecated option `max_series_per_query`
 
 ## 1.16.1
 * [CHANGE] Upgrade memcached to 1.6.23-alpine and memcached-exporter to v0.14.2
diff --git a/cortex/config.libsonnet b/cortex/config.libsonnet
index d70f4e0..5311921 100644
--- a/cortex/config.libsonnet
+++ b/cortex/config.libsonnet
@@ -236,7 +236,6 @@
       'ingester.max-series-per-metric': $._config.limits.max_series_per_metric,
       'ingester.max-global-series-per-user': $._config.limits.max_global_series_per_user,
       'ingester.max-global-series-per-metric': $._config.limits.max_global_series_per_metric,
-      'ingester.max-series-per-query': $._config.limits.max_series_per_query,
     },
     rulerLimitsConfig: {
       'ruler.max-rules-per-rule-group': $._config.limits.ruler_max_rules_per_rule_group,
@@ -259,8 +258,6 @@
         max_global_series_per_user: 150000,
         max_global_series_per_metric: 20000,
 
-        max_series_per_query: 100000,
-
         ingestion_rate: 10000,
         ingestion_burst_size: 200000,
 
@@ -281,8 +278,6 @@
         max_global_series_per_user: 300000,
         max_global_series_per_metric: 30000,
 
-        max_series_per_query: 100000,
-
         ingestion_rate: 30000,
         ingestion_burst_size: 300000,
 
@@ -300,8 +295,6 @@
         max_global_series_per_user: 1000000,
         max_global_series_per_metric: 100000,
 
-        max_series_per_query: 100000,
-
         ingestion_rate: 100000,
         ingestion_burst_size: 1000000,
 
@@ -319,8 +312,6 @@
         max_global_series_per_user: 3000000,  // 3M
         max_global_series_per_metric: 300000,  // 300K
 
-        max_series_per_query: 100000,
-
         ingestion_rate: 350000,  // 350K
         ingestion_burst_size: 3500000,  // 3.5M
 
@@ -335,8 +326,6 @@
         max_series_per_metric: 0,  // Disabled in favour of the max global limit
         max_series_per_user: 0,  // Disabled in favour of the max global limit
 
-        max_series_per_query: 100000,
-
         max_global_series_per_user: 6000000,  // 6M
         max_global_series_per_metric: 600000,  // 600K
 
@@ -357,8 +346,6 @@
         max_global_series_per_user: 12000000,  // 12M
         max_global_series_per_metric: 1200000,  // 1.2M
 
-        max_series_per_query: 100000,
-
         ingestion_rate: 1500000,  // 1.5M
         ingestion_burst_size: 15000000,  // 15M
 
@@ -377,8 +364,6 @@
         max_global_series_per_user: 16000000,  // 16M
         max_global_series_per_metric: 1600000,  // 1.6M
 
-        max_series_per_query: 100000,
-
         ingestion_rate: 2250000,  // 2.25M
         ingestion_burst_size: 22500000,  // 22.5M