diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d85ef145bde..fed0dc79c2c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ querier:
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Update Azurite image. [#4298](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/pull/4464) (@javiermolinar)
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Update golang.org/x/crypto [#4474](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/pull/4474) (@javiermolinar)
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Distributor shim: add test verifying receiver works (including metrics) [#4477](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/pull/4477) (@yvrhdn)
+* [ENHANCEMENT] Reduce goroutines in all non-querier components. [#4484](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/pull/4484) (@joe-elliott)
 * [BUGFIX] Handle invalid TraceQL query filter in tag values v2 disk cache [#4392](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/pull/4392) (@electron0zero)
 * [BUGFIX] Replace hedged requests roundtrips total with a counter. [#4063](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/pull/4063) [#4078](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/pull/4078) (@galalen)
 * [BUGFIX] Metrics generators: Correctly drop from the ring before stopping ingestion to reduce drops during a rollout. [#4101](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/pull/4101) (@joe-elliott)
diff --git a/cmd/tempo/app/modules.go b/cmd/tempo/app/modules.go
index 6652706d972..9b784e790d3 100644
--- a/cmd/tempo/app/modules.go
+++ b/cmd/tempo/app/modules.go
@@ -462,6 +462,13 @@ func (t *App) initOptionalStore() (services.Service, error) {
 }
 
 func (t *App) initStore() (services.Service, error) {
+	// the only component that needs a functioning tempodb pool are the queriers. all other components will just spin up
+	// hundreds of never used pool goroutines. set pool size to 0 here to avoid that.
+	if t.cfg.Target != Querier && t.cfg.Target != SingleBinary && t.cfg.Target != ScalableSingleBinary {
+		t.cfg.StorageConfig.Trace.Pool.MaxWorkers = 0
+		t.cfg.StorageConfig.Trace.Pool.QueueDepth = 0
+	}
+
 	store, err := tempo_storage.NewStore(t.cfg.StorageConfig, t.cacheProvider, log.Logger)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create store: %w", err)