diff --git a/pkg/ingester/ingester.go b/pkg/ingester/ingester.go
index 1f0e438848..b7959dff9f 100644
--- a/pkg/ingester/ingester.go
+++ b/pkg/ingester/ingester.go
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ type Config struct {
 	UpdateIngesterOwnedSeries       bool          `yaml:"track_ingester_owned_series" category:"experimental"`
 	OwnedSeriesUpdateInterval       time.Duration `yaml:"owned_series_update_interval" category:"experimental"`
 
-	EnablePushAPI bool `yaml:"enable_push_api" category:"experimental" doc:"hidden"`
+	PushGrpcMethodEnabled bool `yaml:"push_grpc_method_enabled" category:"experimental" doc:"hidden"`
 
 	// This config is dynamically injected because defined outside the ingester config.
 	IngestStorageConfig ingest.Config `yaml:"-"`
@@ -232,8 +232,7 @@ func (cfg *Config) RegisterFlags(f *flag.FlagSet, logger log.Logger) {
 	f.BoolVar(&cfg.UseIngesterOwnedSeriesForLimits, "ingester.use-ingester-owned-series-for-limits", false, "When enabled, only series currently owned by ingester according to the ring are used when checking user per-tenant series limit.")
 	f.BoolVar(&cfg.UpdateIngesterOwnedSeries, "ingester.track-ingester-owned-series", false, "This option enables tracking of ingester-owned series based on ring state, even if -ingester.use-ingester-owned-series-for-limits is disabled.")
 	f.DurationVar(&cfg.OwnedSeriesUpdateInterval, "ingester.owned-series-update-interval", 15*time.Second, "How often to check for ring changes and possibly recompute owned series as a result of detected change.")
-
-	f.BoolVar(&cfg.EnablePushAPI, "ingester.enable-push-api", true, "When disabled, disallows Push API in ingester. Use after migrating ingester to ingest-storage.")
+	f.BoolVar(&cfg.PushGrpcMethodEnabled, "ingester.push-grpc-method-enabled", true, "Enables Push gRPC method on ingester. Can be only disabled when using ingest-storage to make sure ingesters only receive data from Kafka.")
 
 	// The ingester.return-only-grpc-errors flag has been deprecated.
 	// According to the migration plan (https://github.com/grafana/mimir/issues/6008#issuecomment-1854320098)
@@ -3502,7 +3501,7 @@ func (i *Ingester) PushToStorage(ctx context.Context, req *mimirpb.WriteRequest)
 
 // Push implements client.IngesterServer
 func (i *Ingester) Push(ctx context.Context, req *mimirpb.WriteRequest) (*mimirpb.WriteResponse, error) {
-	if !i.cfg.EnablePushAPI {
+	if !i.cfg.PushGrpcMethodEnabled {
 		return nil, errPushAPIDisabled
 	}
 
diff --git a/pkg/ingester/ingester_ingest_storage_test.go b/pkg/ingester/ingester_ingest_storage_test.go
index 2095e2ccfa..a7824fac49 100644
--- a/pkg/ingester/ingester_ingest_storage_test.go
+++ b/pkg/ingester/ingester_ingest_storage_test.go
@@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ func createTestIngesterWithIngestStorage(t testing.TB, ingesterCfg *Config, over
 	defaultIngesterConfig := defaultIngesterTestConfig(t)
 
 	// Always disable gRPC Push API when testing ingest store.
-	ingesterCfg.EnablePushAPI = false
+	ingesterCfg.PushGrpcMethodEnabled = false
 
 	ingesterCfg.IngestStorageConfig.Enabled = true
 	ingesterCfg.IngestStorageConfig.KafkaConfig.Topic = "mimir"
diff --git a/pkg/ingester/ingester_test.go b/pkg/ingester/ingester_test.go
index 3139993e59..ab8f20e7bd 100644
--- a/pkg/ingester/ingester_test.go
+++ b/pkg/ingester/ingester_test.go
@@ -6748,9 +6748,9 @@ func TestIngester_PushInstanceLimitsWithCircuitBreaker_LimitInflightRequestsUsin
 	}
 }
 
-func TestIngester_PushAPIDisabled(t *testing.T) {
+func TestIngester_PushGrpcMethod_Disabled(t *testing.T) {
 	cfg := defaultIngesterTestConfig(t)
-	cfg.EnablePushAPI = false
+	cfg.PushGrpcMethodEnabled = false
 
 	registry := prometheus.NewRegistry()
 
diff --git a/pkg/mimir/mimir.go b/pkg/mimir/mimir.go
index 561118822b..bb7bd6965b 100644
--- a/pkg/mimir/mimir.go
+++ b/pkg/mimir/mimir.go
@@ -244,8 +244,8 @@ func (c *Config) Validate(log log.Logger) error {
 		if c.IngestStorage.Enabled && !c.Ingester.DeprecatedReturnOnlyGRPCErrors {
 			return errors.New("to use ingest storage (-ingest-storage.enabled) also enable -ingester.return-only-grpc-errors")
 		}
-		if !c.IngestStorage.Enabled && !c.Ingester.EnablePushAPI {
-			return errors.New("cannot disable Push API in ingester, while ingest storage (-ingest-storage.enabled) is also disabled")
+		if !c.IngestStorage.Enabled && !c.Ingester.PushGrpcMethodEnabled {
+			return errors.New("cannot disable Push gRPC method in ingester, while ingest storage (-ingest-storage.enabled) is not enabled")
 		}
 	}
 	if err := c.BlocksStorage.Validate(c.Ingester.ActiveSeriesMetrics); err != nil {
diff --git a/pkg/mimir/mimir_test.go b/pkg/mimir/mimir_test.go
index c66c87bee8..7ff85d2c99 100644
--- a/pkg/mimir/mimir_test.go
+++ b/pkg/mimir/mimir_test.go
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@ func TestConfigValidation(t *testing.T) {
 			getTestConfig: func() *Config {
 				cfg := newDefaultConfig()
 				_ = cfg.Target.Set("ingester")
-				cfg.Ingester.EnablePushAPI = false
+				cfg.Ingester.PushGrpcMethodEnabled = false
 				cfg.IngestStorage.Enabled = false
 
 				return cfg