diff --git a/app/vmselect/prometheus/prometheus.go b/app/vmselect/prometheus/prometheus.go
index 5a296b2bf..a897bdf7b 100644
--- a/app/vmselect/prometheus/prometheus.go
+++ b/app/vmselect/prometheus/prometheus.go
@@ -59,8 +59,8 @@ var (
 		"This option doesn't limit the number of scanned raw samples in the database. The main purpose of this option is to limit the number of per-series points "+
 		"returned to graphing UI such as VMUI or Grafana. There is no sense in setting this limit to values bigger than the horizontal resolution of the graph. "+
 		"See also -search.maxResponseSeries")
-	ignoreExtraFiltersAtLabelsAPI = flag.Bool("search.ignoreExtraFiltersAtLabelsAPI", false, "Whether to ignore extra_filters and extra_label query args at "+
-		"/api/v1/labels, /api/v1/label/.../values and /api/v1/series . This may be useful for decreasing load on VictoriaMetrics when extra filters "+
+	ignoreExtraFiltersAtLabelsAPI = flag.Bool("search.ignoreExtraFiltersAtLabelsAPI", false, "Whether to ignore match[], extra_filters[] and extra_label query args at "+
+		"/api/v1/labels and /api/v1/label/.../values . This may be useful for decreasing load on VictoriaMetrics when extra filters "+
 		"match too many time series. The downside is that suprflouos labels or series could be returned, which do not match the extra filters. "+
 		"See also -search.maxLabelsAPISeries and -search.maxLabelsAPIDuration")
 )
@@ -1181,18 +1181,18 @@ func getCommonParamsInternal(r *http.Request, startTime time.Time, requireNonEmp
 	if requireNonEmptyMatch && len(matches) == 0 {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("missing `match[]` arg")
 	}
-	tagFilterss, err := getTagFilterssFromMatches(matches)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
 
-	filterss := tagFilterss
+	var filterss [][]storage.TagFilter
 	if !isLabelsAPI || !*ignoreExtraFiltersAtLabelsAPI {
+		tagFilterss, err := getTagFilterssFromMatches(matches)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
 		etfs, err := searchutils.GetExtraTagFilters(r)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, err
 		}
-		filterss = searchutils.JoinTagFilterss(filterss, etfs)
+		filterss = searchutils.JoinTagFilterss(tagFilterss, etfs)
 	}
 
 	cp := &commonParams{