diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 2d1fda94899..ed6f1f26500 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@
 * [BUGFIX] Query-frontend: properly close gRPC streams to the query-scheduler to stop memory and goroutines leak. #3302
 * [BUGFIX] Ruler: persist evaluation delay configured in the rulegroup. #3392
 * [BUGFIX] Ring status pages: show 100% ownership as "100%", not "1e+02%". #3435
-* [BUGFIX] Fix panics in OTLP ingest path when parse errors exist. #3538
 
 ### Mixin
 
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index f2a7a2a3ce9..3efa854f944 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ require (
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata v0.54.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel v1.10.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v1.10.0
-	go.uber.org/multierr v1.8.0
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.0.0-20220919091848-fb04ddd9f9c8
 	google.golang.org/api v0.97.0
 	gopkg.in/alecthomas/kingpin.v2 v2.2.6
@@ -208,6 +207,7 @@ require (
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/semconv v0.54.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/net/http/otelhttp v0.36.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v0.32.0 // indirect
+	go.uber.org/multierr v1.8.0 // indirect
 	go.uber.org/zap v1.21.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/exp v0.0.0-20220722155223-a9213eeb770e // indirect
 	golang.org/x/mod v0.6.0-dev.0.20220419223038-86c51ed26bb4 // indirect
diff --git a/pkg/util/push/otel.go b/pkg/util/push/otel.go
index d51057eb3a1..3189eb80e20 100644
--- a/pkg/util/push/otel.go
+++ b/pkg/util/push/otel.go
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ import (
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/pcommon"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/pmetric"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/pmetric/pmetricotlp"
-	"go.uber.org/multierr"
 
 	"github.com/grafana/mimir/pkg/mimirpb"
 	"github.com/grafana/mimir/pkg/util"
@@ -133,7 +132,7 @@ func otelMetricsToTimeseries(ctx context.Context, discardedDueToOtelParseError *
 			return nil, err
 		}
 
-		dropped := len(multierr.Errors(errs))
+		dropped := md.DataPointCount() - sampleCountInMap(tsMap)
 		discardedDueToOtelParseError.WithLabelValues(userID).Add(float64(dropped))
 
 		parseErrs := errs.Error()
@@ -229,3 +228,12 @@ func TimeseriesToOTLPRequest(timeseries []prompb.TimeSeries) pmetricotlp.Request
 
 	return pmetricotlp.NewRequestFromMetrics(d)
 }
+
+func sampleCountInMap(tsMap map[string]*prompb.TimeSeries) int {
+	count := 0
+	for _, ts := range tsMap {
+		count += len(ts.Samples)
+	}
+
+	return count
+}
diff --git a/pkg/util/push/push_test.go b/pkg/util/push/push_test.go
index 79d43eb1eaf..6546cd45c7c 100644
--- a/pkg/util/push/push_test.go
+++ b/pkg/util/push/push_test.go
@@ -100,72 +100,6 @@ func TestHandler_otlpDroppedMetricsPanic(t *testing.T) {
 	assert.Equal(t, 200, resp.Code)
 }
 
-func TestHandler_otlpDroppedMetricsPanic2(t *testing.T) {
-	// After the above test, the panic occurred again.
-	// This test is to ensure that the panic is fixed for the new cases as well.
-
-	// First case is to make sure that target_info is counted correctly.
-	md := pmetric.NewMetrics()
-	const name = "foo"
-	attributes := pcommon.NewMap()
-	attributes.InsertString(model.MetricNameLabel, name)
-
-	resource1 := md.ResourceMetrics().AppendEmpty()
-	resource1.Resource().Attributes().InsertString("region", "us-central1")
-
-	metric1 := resource1.ScopeMetrics().AppendEmpty().Metrics().AppendEmpty()
-	metric1.SetName(name)
-	metric1.SetDataType(pmetric.MetricDataTypeGauge)
-	datapoint1 := metric1.Gauge().DataPoints().AppendEmpty()
-	datapoint1.SetTimestamp(pcommon.NewTimestampFromTime(time.Now()))
-	datapoint1.SetDoubleVal(0)
-	attributes.CopyTo(datapoint1.Attributes())
-	datapoint1.Attributes().InsertString("diff_label", "bar")
-
-	metric2 := resource1.ScopeMetrics().AppendEmpty().Metrics().AppendEmpty()
-	metric2.SetName(name)
-	metric2.SetDataType(pmetric.MetricDataTypeGauge)
-
-	req := createOTLPRequest(t, pmetricotlp.NewRequestFromMetrics(md), false)
-	resp := httptest.NewRecorder()
-	handler := OTLPHandler(100000, nil, false, nil, func(ctx context.Context, pushReq *Request) (response *mimirpb.WriteResponse, err error) {
-		request, err := pushReq.WriteRequest()
-		assert.NoError(t, err)
-		assert.Len(t, request.Timeseries, 2)
-		assert.False(t, request.SkipLabelNameValidation)
-		pushReq.CleanUp()
-		return &mimirpb.WriteResponse{}, nil
-	})
-	handler.ServeHTTP(resp, req)
-	assert.Equal(t, 200, resp.Code)
-
-	// Second case is to make sure that histogram metrics are counted correctly.
-	metric3 := resource1.ScopeMetrics().AppendEmpty().Metrics().AppendEmpty()
-	metric3.SetName("http_request_duration_seconds")
-	metric3.SetDataType(pmetric.MetricDataTypeHistogram)
-	metric3.Histogram().SetAggregationTemporality(pmetric.MetricAggregationTemporalityCumulative)
-	datapoint3 := metric3.Histogram().DataPoints().AppendEmpty()
-	datapoint3.SetTimestamp(pcommon.NewTimestampFromTime(time.Now()))
-	datapoint3.SetCount(50)
-	datapoint3.SetSum(100)
-	datapoint3.SetMExplicitBounds([]float64{0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5})
-	datapoint3.SetMBucketCounts([]uint64{10, 20, 30, 40, 50})
-	attributes.CopyTo(datapoint3.Attributes())
-
-	req = createOTLPRequest(t, pmetricotlp.NewRequestFromMetrics(md), false)
-	resp = httptest.NewRecorder()
-	handler = OTLPHandler(100000, nil, false, nil, func(ctx context.Context, pushReq *Request) (response *mimirpb.WriteResponse, err error) {
-		request, err := pushReq.WriteRequest()
-		assert.NoError(t, err)
-		assert.Len(t, request.Timeseries, 10) // 6 buckets (including +Inf) + 2 sum/count + 2 from the first case
-		assert.False(t, request.SkipLabelNameValidation)
-		pushReq.CleanUp()
-		return &mimirpb.WriteResponse{}, nil
-	})
-	handler.ServeHTTP(resp, req)
-	assert.Equal(t, 200, resp.Code)
-}
-
 func TestHandler_otlpWriteWithCompression(t *testing.T) {
 	req := createOTLPRequest(t, createOTLPMetricRequest(t), true)
 	resp := httptest.NewRecorder()