diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 3fccc3b868..19c07400a9 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
 * [BUGFIX] Ingester: Fix inflight query counter leak when resource-based query protection rejects a request. #7539
 * [BUGFIX] Ingester: Release the TSDB appender on every early-return path in `Push` (e.g. out-of-order label set) by deferring `Rollback`. Previously such requests leaked TSDB head series references, mmap'd chunks and pending state per request, causing the `cortex_ingester_tsdb_head_active_appenders` gauge to grow unbounded. #7528
 * [BUGFIX] Ingester: Fix `panic: send on closed channel` in `ActiveQueriedSeriesService` on shutdown by removing the redundant channel close in `stopping()` and relying on `ctx.Done()` to signal worker exit. #7533
+* [BUGFIX] Query Eviction: Fix flaky `TestPrometheusMetrics_IncrementedCorrectly` by polling for the `evictionsTotal` metric instead of asserting immediately after the eviction signal, which fires before the metric is incremented in the evictor's background loop. #7680
 * [BUGFIX] Ring: Fix ring token conflict resolution only applied to updated instance and make constantly token conflict check during instance observe period.
 * [BUGFIX] Distributor: Fix a panic (`slice bounds out of range`) in the stream push path when the context deadline expires while the worker goroutine is still marshalling a `WriteRequest`. #7541
 * [BUGFIX] Query Frontend: Fix native histogram responses not being handled correctly in `minTime()` sort ordering for split_by_interval merge. #7555
diff --git a/pkg/util/queryeviction/evictor_test.go b/pkg/util/queryeviction/evictor_test.go
index a6bbe92491..82b0a6afa1 100644
--- a/pkg/util/queryeviction/evictor_test.go
+++ b/pkg/util/queryeviction/evictor_test.go
@@ -207,7 +207,13 @@ func TestPrometheusMetrics_IncrementedCorrectly(t *testing.T) {
 		waitEvicted(t, evicted)
 	}
 
-	assert.Equal(t, float64(3), promtest.ToFloat64(evictor.evictionsTotal.WithLabelValues(string(resource.CPU))))
+	// The eviction signal (closing `evicted`) and the evictionsTotal increment
+	// both happen in the evictor's background loop, but the signal fires first
+	// (see running() in evictor.go: Cancel() is called before Inc()). Waiting on
+	// the signal alone races with the metric write, so poll for the metric too.
+	require.Eventually(t, func() bool {
+		return promtest.ToFloat64(evictor.evictionsTotal.WithLabelValues(string(resource.CPU))) == float64(3)
+	}, 500*time.Millisecond, 5*time.Millisecond, "expected evictionsTotal to reach 3")
 }
 
 func TestNewQueryEvictor_ReturnsNilWhenDisabled(t *testing.T) {