diff --git a/docs/sources/tempo/configuration/_index.md b/docs/sources/tempo/configuration/_index.md
index 985b5e2f0f24..60cd6d59c984 100644
--- a/docs/sources/tempo/configuration/_index.md
+++ b/docs/sources/tempo/configuration/_index.md
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ metrics_generator:
     # This option only allows spans with end times that occur within the configured duration to be
     # considered in metrics generation.
     # This is to filter out spans that are outdated.
-    [metrics_ingestion_time_range_slack: <duration> | default = 2m0s]
+    [metrics_ingestion_time_range_slack: <duration> | default = 30s]
 
     # Timeout for metric requests
     [query_timeout: <duration> | default = 30s ]
diff --git a/docs/sources/tempo/configuration/manifest.md b/docs/sources/tempo/configuration/manifest.md
index 94e7eb99d61b..ea9c1f8d6820 100644
--- a/docs/sources/tempo/configuration/manifest.md
+++ b/docs/sources/tempo/configuration/manifest.md
@@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ querier:
     frontend_worker:
         frontend_address: 127.0.0.1:9095
         dns_lookup_duration: 10s
-        parallelism: 3
+        parallelism: 2
         match_max_concurrent: true
         id: ""
         grpc_client_config:
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ metrics_generator:
         search_encoding: none
         ingestion_time_range_slack: 2m0s
         version: vParquet4
-    metrics_ingestion_time_range_slack: 2m0s
+    metrics_ingestion_time_range_slack: 30s
     query_timeout: 30s
     override_ring_key: metrics-generator
 storage:
diff --git a/modules/generator/config.go b/modules/generator/config.go
index c6858e804fe9..0f6a09491d8d 100644
--- a/modules/generator/config.go
+++ b/modules/generator/config.go
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ func (cfg *Config) RegisterFlagsAndApplyDefaults(prefix string, f *flag.FlagSet)
 	cfg.Registry.RegisterFlagsAndApplyDefaults(prefix, f)
 	cfg.Storage.RegisterFlagsAndApplyDefaults(prefix, f)
 	cfg.TracesWAL.Version = encoding.DefaultEncoding().Version()
-	cfg.TracesWAL.IngestionSlack = 2 * time.Minute
+	cfg.TracesWAL.IngestionSlack = 30 * time.Second
 
 	// setting default for max span age before discarding to 30s
 	cfg.MetricsIngestionSlack = 2 * time.Minute
diff --git a/modules/querier/config.go b/modules/querier/config.go
index 6ebb6e64f017..824622cc3c2f 100644
--- a/modules/querier/config.go
+++ b/modules/querier/config.go
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ func (cfg *Config) RegisterFlagsAndApplyDefaults(prefix string, f *flag.FlagSet)
 	cfg.Worker = worker.Config{
 		MatchMaxConcurrency:   true,
 		MaxConcurrentRequests: cfg.MaxConcurrentQueries,
-		Parallelism:           3,
+		Parallelism:           2,
 		GRPCClientConfig: grpcclient.Config{
 			MaxRecvMsgSize:  100 << 20,
 			MaxSendMsgSize:  16 << 20,