diff --git a/integration/getting_started_with_gossiped_ring_test.go b/integration/getting_started_with_gossiped_ring_test.go
index a3626cd40cb..9de058240f7 100644
--- a/integration/getting_started_with_gossiped_ring_test.go
+++ b/integration/getting_started_with_gossiped_ring_test.go
@@ -129,4 +129,10 @@ func TestGettingStartedWithGossipedRing(t *testing.T) {
 	// single ingester and so we have 1 block shipped from ingesters and loaded by both store-gateways.
 	require.NoError(t, mimir1.WaitSumMetrics(e2e.Equals(1), "cortex_bucket_store_blocks_loaded"))
 	require.NoError(t, mimir2.WaitSumMetrics(e2e.Equals(1), "cortex_bucket_store_blocks_loaded"))
+
+	// Make sure that no DNS failures occurred.
+	// No actual DNS lookups are necessarily performed, so we can't really assert on that.
+	mlMatcher := labels.MustNewMatcher(labels.MatchEqual, "name", "memberlist")
+	require.NoError(t, mimir1.WaitSumMetricsWithOptions(e2e.Equals(0), []string{"cortex_dns_failures_total"}, e2e.WithLabelMatchers(mlMatcher)))
+	require.NoError(t, mimir2.WaitSumMetricsWithOptions(e2e.Equals(0), []string{"cortex_dns_failures_total"}, e2e.WithLabelMatchers(mlMatcher)))
 }
diff --git a/pkg/mimir/modules.go b/pkg/mimir/modules.go
index f8c9eb0686b..64cc895d5cc 100644
--- a/pkg/mimir/modules.go
+++ b/pkg/mimir/modules.go
@@ -733,18 +733,19 @@ func (t *Mimir) initStoreGateway() (serv services.Service, err error) {
 }
 
 func (t *Mimir) initMemberlistKV() (services.Service, error) {
-	t.Cfg.MemberlistKV.MetricsRegisterer = prometheus.DefaultRegisterer
+	reg := prometheus.DefaultRegisterer
+	t.Cfg.MemberlistKV.MetricsRegisterer = reg
 	t.Cfg.MemberlistKV.Codecs = []codec.Codec{
 		ring.GetCodec(),
 	}
-	var mr prometheus.Registerer
-	if t.Cfg.MemberlistKV.MetricsRegisterer != nil {
-		mr = prometheus.WrapRegistererWith(
+	dnsProviderReg := prometheus.WrapRegistererWithPrefix(
+		"cortex_",
+		prometheus.WrapRegistererWith(
 			prometheus.Labels{"name": "memberlist"},
-			t.Cfg.MemberlistKV.MetricsRegisterer,
-		)
-	}
-	dnsProvider := dns.NewProvider(util_log.Logger, mr, dns.GolangResolverType)
+			reg,
+		),
+	)
+	dnsProvider := dns.NewProvider(util_log.Logger, dnsProviderReg, dns.GolangResolverType)
 	t.MemberlistKV = memberlist.NewKVInitService(&t.Cfg.MemberlistKV, util_log.Logger, dnsProvider)
 	t.API.RegisterMemberlistKV(t.MemberlistKV)