diff --git a/app/vmselect/promql/eval.go b/app/vmselect/promql/eval.go
index 0b2eea289..64ab3c894 100644
--- a/app/vmselect/promql/eval.go
+++ b/app/vmselect/promql/eval.go
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 var (
-	maxPointsPerTimeseries = flag.Int("search.maxPointsPerTimeseries", 10e3, "The maximum points per a single timeseries returned from the search")
+	maxPointsPerTimeseries = flag.Int("search.maxPointsPerTimeseries", 30e3, "The maximum points per a single timeseries returned from the search")
 )
 
 // The minimum number of points per timeseries for enabling time rounding.
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ const minTimeseriesPointsForTimeRounding = 50
 func ValidateMaxPointsPerTimeseries(start, end, step int64) error {
 	points := (end-start)/step + 1
 	if uint64(points) > uint64(*maxPointsPerTimeseries) {
-		return fmt.Errorf(`too many points for the given step=%d, start=%d and end=%d: %d; cannot exceed %d points`,
+		return fmt.Errorf(`too many points for the given step=%d, start=%d and end=%d: %d; cannot exceed -search.maxPointsPerTimeseries=%d`,
 			step, start, end, uint64(points), *maxPointsPerTimeseries)
 	}
 	return nil