diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2bba95c74dae..ea2e5b9d6755 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 * [5243](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5243) **owen-d**: moves `querier.split-queries-by-interval` to limits code only.
 * [5139](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5139) **DylanGuedes**: Drop support for legacy configuration rules format.
+* [5262](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5262) **MichelHollands**: Remove the labelFilter field
 * [4911](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/4911) **jeschkies**: Support Docker service discovery in Promtail.
 * [5107](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5107) **chaudum** Fix bug in fluentd plugin that caused log lines containing non UTF-8 characters to be dropped.
 * [5187](https://github.com/grafana/loki/pull/5187) **aknuds1** Rename metric `cortex_experimental_features_in_use_total` to `loki_experimental_features_in_use_total` and metric `log_messages_total` to `loki_log_messages_total`.
diff --git a/pkg/ingester/ingester.go b/pkg/ingester/ingester.go
index a71dac39fb43..b2dc415ace60 100644
--- a/pkg/ingester/ingester.go
+++ b/pkg/ingester/ingester.go
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ type Config struct {
 	WAL WALConfig `yaml:"wal,omitempty"`
 
 	ChunkFilterer storage.RequestChunkFilterer `yaml:"-"`
-	LabelFilterer LabelValueFilterer           `yaml:"-"`
 	// Optional wrapper that can be used to modify the behaviour of the ingester
 	Wrapper Wrapper `yaml:"-"`
 
@@ -138,11 +137,6 @@ func (cfg *Config) Validate() error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-// ChunkFilterer filters chunks based on the metric.
-type LabelValueFilterer interface {
-	Filter(ctx context.Context, labelName string, labelValues []string) ([]string, error)
-}
-
 type Wrapper interface {
 	Wrap(wrapped Interface) Interface
 }
@@ -211,7 +205,6 @@ type Ingester struct {
 	wal WAL
 
 	chunkFilter storage.RequestChunkFilterer
-	labelFilter LabelValueFilterer
 }
 
 // New makes a new Ingester.
@@ -275,10 +268,6 @@ func New(cfg Config, clientConfig client.Config, store ChunkStore, limits *valid
 		i.SetChunkFilterer(i.cfg.ChunkFilterer)
 	}
 
-	if i.cfg.LabelFilterer != nil {
-		i.SetLabelFilterer(i.cfg.LabelFilterer)
-	}
-
 	return i, nil
 }
 
@@ -286,10 +275,6 @@ func (i *Ingester) SetChunkFilterer(chunkFilter storage.RequestChunkFilterer) {
 	i.chunkFilter = chunkFilter
 }
 
-func (i *Ingester) SetLabelFilterer(labelFilter LabelValueFilterer) {
-	i.labelFilter = labelFilter
-}
-
 // setupAutoForget looks for ring status if `AutoForgetUnhealthy` is enabled
 // when enabled, unhealthy ingesters that reach `ring.kvstore.heartbeat_timeout` are removed from the ring every `HeartbeatPeriod`
 func (i *Ingester) setupAutoForget() {
@@ -760,23 +745,8 @@ func (i *Ingester) Label(ctx context.Context, req *logproto.LabelRequest) (*logp
 		}
 	}
 
-	allValues := errUtil.MergeStringLists(resp.Values, storeValues)
-
-	if req.Values && i.labelFilter != nil {
-		var filteredValues []string
-
-		filteredValues, err = i.labelFilter.Filter(ctx, req.Name, allValues)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-
-		return &logproto.LabelResponse{
-			Values: filteredValues,
-		}, nil
-	}
-
 	return &logproto.LabelResponse{
-		Values: allValues,
+		Values: errUtil.MergeStringLists(resp.Values, storeValues),
 	}, nil
 }
 
diff --git a/pkg/ingester/ingester_test.go b/pkg/ingester/ingester_test.go
index 8eb09dfdcda9..e11bf2e6cbd6 100644
--- a/pkg/ingester/ingester_test.go
+++ b/pkg/ingester/ingester_test.go
@@ -594,94 +594,3 @@ func Test_InMemoryLabels(t *testing.T) {
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 	require.Equal(t, []string{"bar", "foo"}, res.Values)
 }
-
-func InMemoryLabels(t *testing.T, labelFilterer LabelValueFilterer, expectedValues []string) {
-	ingesterConfig := defaultIngesterTestConfig(t)
-	ingesterConfig.QueryStore = true
-	limits, err := validation.NewOverrides(defaultLimitsTestConfig(), nil)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	store := &mockStore{
-		chunks: map[string][]chunk.Chunk{},
-	}
-
-	i, err := New(ingesterConfig, client.Config{}, store, limits, runtime.DefaultTenantConfigs(), nil)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	i.labelFilter = labelFilterer
-	future := time.Now().Local().Add(time.Minute * 5)
-	i.periodicConfigs = []chunk.PeriodConfig{
-		{
-			From: chunk.DayTime{
-				Time: model.TimeFromUnix(future.Unix()),
-			},
-		},
-	}
-	defer services.StopAndAwaitTerminated(context.Background(), i) //nolint:errcheck
-
-	req := logproto.PushRequest{
-		Streams: []logproto.Stream{
-			{
-				Labels: `{foo="bar",bar="baz1"}`,
-			},
-			{
-				Labels: `{foo="bar",bar="baz2"}`,
-			},
-		},
-	}
-	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
-		req.Streams[0].Entries = append(req.Streams[0].Entries, logproto.Entry{
-			Timestamp: time.Unix(0, 0),
-			Line:      fmt.Sprintf("line %d", i),
-		})
-		req.Streams[1].Entries = append(req.Streams[1].Entries, logproto.Entry{
-			Timestamp: time.Unix(0, 0),
-			Line:      fmt.Sprintf("line %d", i),
-		})
-	}
-
-	ctx := user.InjectOrgID(context.Background(), "test")
-	_, err = i.Push(ctx, &req)
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-
-	start := time.Now().Add(-5 * time.Minute)
-	end := time.Now()
-	res, err := i.Label(ctx, &logproto.LabelRequest{
-		Name:   "bar",
-		Values: true,
-		Start:  &start,
-		End:    &end,
-	})
-
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	require.Equal(t, expectedValues, res.Values)
-
-	res, err = i.Label(ctx, &logproto.LabelRequest{})
-	require.NoError(t, err)
-	require.Equal(t, []string{"bar", "foo"}, res.Values)
-}
-
-func Test_InMemoryLabels_WithoutLabelFilter(t *testing.T) {
-	expectedValues := []string{"baz1", "baz2", "val1", "val2"}
-
-	InMemoryLabels(t, nil, expectedValues)
-}
-
-// DummyLabelValuedFilterer adds i to the front of the label value
-type DummyLabelValueFilterer struct{}
-
-func (*DummyLabelValueFilterer) Filter(ctx context.Context, labelName string, labelValues []string) ([]string, error) {
-	var updatedValues []string
-
-	for _, v := range labelValues {
-		updatedValues = append(updatedValues, fmt.Sprintf("i%v", v))
-	}
-
-	return updatedValues, nil
-}
-
-func Test_InMemoryLabels_WithLabelFilter(t *testing.T) {
-	labelFilter := DummyLabelValueFilterer{}
-	expectedValues := []string{"ibaz1", "ibaz2", "ival1", "ival2"}
-
-	InMemoryLabels(t, &labelFilter, expectedValues)
-}