diff --git a/pkg/querier/queryrange/limits.go b/pkg/querier/queryrange/limits.go
index 82bef4bf95..b6f5c4d51f 100644
--- a/pkg/querier/queryrange/limits.go
+++ b/pkg/querier/queryrange/limits.go
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/grafana/dskit/tenant"
 
 	"github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go"
+	otlog "github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go/log"
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 	"github.com/prometheus/common/model"
 	"github.com/prometheus/prometheus/model/labels"
@@ -452,6 +453,27 @@ func NewLimitedRoundTripper(next queryrangebase.Handler, limits Limits, configs
 	return transport
 }
 
+type SemaphoreWithTiming struct {
+	sem *semaphore.Weighted
+}
+
+func NewSemaphoreWithTiming(max int64) *SemaphoreWithTiming {
+	return &SemaphoreWithTiming{
+		sem: semaphore.NewWeighted(max),
+	}
+}
+
+// acquires the semaphore and records the time it takes.
+func (s *SemaphoreWithTiming) Acquire(ctx context.Context, n int64) (time.Duration, error) {
+	start := time.Now()
+
+	if err := s.sem.Acquire(ctx, n); err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+
+	return time.Since(start), nil
+}
+
 func (rt limitedRoundTripper) Do(c context.Context, request queryrangebase.Request) (queryrangebase.Response, error) {
 	var (
 		ctx, cancel = context.WithCancel(c)
@@ -460,9 +482,12 @@ func (rt limitedRoundTripper) Do(c context.Context, request queryrangebase.Reque
 		cancel()
 	}()
 
-	if span := opentracing.SpanFromContext(ctx); span != nil {
+	span := opentracing.SpanFromContext(ctx)
+
+	if span != nil {
 		request.LogToSpan(span)
 	}
+
 	tenantIDs, err := tenant.TenantIDs(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, httpgrpc.Errorf(http.StatusBadRequest, err.Error())
@@ -481,7 +506,7 @@ func (rt limitedRoundTripper) Do(c context.Context, request queryrangebase.Reque
 		return nil, httpgrpc.Errorf(http.StatusTooManyRequests, ErrMaxQueryParalellism.Error())
 	}
 
-	sem := semaphore.NewWeighted(int64(parallelism))
+	semWithTiming := NewSemaphoreWithTiming(int64(parallelism))
 
 	return rt.middleware.Wrap(
 		queryrangebase.HandlerFunc(func(ctx context.Context, r queryrangebase.Request) (queryrangebase.Response, error) {
@@ -492,10 +517,20 @@ func (rt limitedRoundTripper) Do(c context.Context, request queryrangebase.Reque
 			// the thousands.
 			// Note: It is the responsibility of the caller to run
 			// the handler in parallel.
-			if err := sem.Acquire(ctx, int64(1)); err != nil {
+			elapsed, err := semWithTiming.Acquire(ctx, int64(1))
+
+			if err != nil {
 				return nil, fmt.Errorf("could not acquire work: %w", err)
 			}
-			defer sem.Release(int64(1))
+
+			if span != nil {
+				span.LogFields(
+					otlog.String("wait_time", elapsed.String()),
+					otlog.Int64("max_parallelism", int64(parallelism)),
+				)
+			}
+
+			defer semWithTiming.sem.Release(int64(1))
 
 			return rt.next.Do(ctx, r)
 		})).Do(ctx, request)
diff --git a/pkg/querier/queryrange/limits_test.go b/pkg/querier/queryrange/limits_test.go
index 4ab81ec4ac..24253892ca 100644
--- a/pkg/querier/queryrange/limits_test.go
+++ b/pkg/querier/queryrange/limits_test.go
@@ -623,3 +623,59 @@ func Test_MaxQuerySize_MaxLookBackPeriod(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	}
 }
+
+func TestAcquireWithTiming(t *testing.T) {
+
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	sem := NewSemaphoreWithTiming(2)
+
+	// Channel to collect waiting times
+	waitingTimes := make(chan struct {
+		GoroutineID int
+		WaitingTime int64
+	}, 3)
+
+	tryAcquire := func(n int64, goroutineID int) {
+		elapsed, err := sem.Acquire(ctx, n)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("Expected no error, got %v", err)
+		}
+		waitingTimes <- struct {
+			GoroutineID int
+			WaitingTime int64
+		}{goroutineID, elapsed.Milliseconds()}
+
+		defer sem.sem.Release(n)
+
+		time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+
+	go tryAcquire(1, 1)
+	go tryAcquire(1, 2)
+
+	// Sleep briefly to allow the first two goroutines to start running
+	time.Sleep(5 * time.Millisecond)
+
+	go tryAcquire(1, 3)
+
+	// Collect and sort waiting times
+	var waitingDurations []struct {
+		GoroutineID int
+		WaitingTime int64
+	}
+	for i := 0; i < 3; i++ {
+		waitingDurations = append(waitingDurations, <-waitingTimes)
+	}
+	// Find and check the waiting time for the third goroutine
+	var waiting3 int64
+	for _, waiting := range waitingDurations {
+		if waiting.GoroutineID == 3 {
+			waiting3 = waiting.WaitingTime
+			break
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Check that the waiting time for the third request is larger than 0 milliseconds and less than or equal to 10-5=5 milliseconds
+	require.Greater(t, waiting3, 0*time.Millisecond)
+	require.LessOrEqual(t, waiting3, 5*time.Millisecond)
+}