diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 76137ab4de..1e888c4904 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ We use *breaking :warning:* to mark changes that are not backward compatible (re
 - [#6887](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/6887) Query Frontend: *breaking :warning:* Add tenant label to relevant exported metrics. Note that this change may cause some pre-existing custom dashboard queries to be incorrect due to the added label.
 - [#7028](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/7028) Query|Query Frontend: Add new `--query-frontend.enable-x-functions` flag to enable experimental extended functions.
 - [#6884](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/6884) Tools: Add upload-block command to upload blocks to object storage.
+- [#7080](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/7080) Rule: Added a new flag for max-source-resolution.
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/cmd/thanos/rule.go b/cmd/thanos/rule.go
index dce39cbf97..0100274aed 100644
--- a/cmd/thanos/rule.go
+++ b/cmd/thanos/rule.go
@@ -95,16 +95,17 @@ type ruleConfig struct {
 
 	rwConfig *extflag.PathOrContent
 
-	resendDelay       time.Duration
-	evalInterval      time.Duration
-	outageTolerance   time.Duration
-	forGracePeriod    time.Duration
-	ruleFiles         []string
-	objStoreConfig    *extflag.PathOrContent
-	dataDir           string
-	lset              labels.Labels
-	ignoredLabelNames []string
-	storeRateLimits   store.SeriesSelectLimits
+	resendDelay         time.Duration
+	evalInterval        time.Duration
+	outageTolerance     time.Duration
+	forGracePeriod      time.Duration
+	ruleFiles           []string
+	maxSourceResolution string
+	objStoreConfig      *extflag.PathOrContent
+	dataDir             string
+	lset                labels.Labels
+	ignoredLabelNames   []string
+	storeRateLimits     store.SeriesSelectLimits
 }
 
 type Expression struct {
@@ -139,6 +140,7 @@ func registerRule(app *extkingpin.App) {
 	walCompression := cmd.Flag("tsdb.wal-compression", "Compress the tsdb WAL.").Default("true").Bool()
 
 	cmd.Flag("data-dir", "data directory").Default("data/").StringVar(&conf.dataDir)
+	cmd.Flag("max-source-resolution", "Max resolution wanted for the data queried.").StringVar(&conf.maxSourceResolution)
 	cmd.Flag("rule-file", "Rule files that should be used by rule manager. Can be in glob format (repeated). Note that rules are not automatically detected, use SIGHUP or do HTTP POST /-/reload to re-read them.").
 		Default("rules/").StringsVar(&conf.ruleFiles)
 	cmd.Flag("resend-delay", "Minimum amount of time to wait before resending an alert to Alertmanager.").
@@ -626,7 +628,7 @@ func runRule(
 				OutageTolerance: conf.outageTolerance,
 				ForGracePeriod:  conf.forGracePeriod,
 			},
-			queryFuncCreator(logger, queryClients, promClients, grpcEndpointSet, metrics.duplicatedQuery, metrics.ruleEvalWarnings, conf.query.httpMethod, conf.query.doNotAddThanosParams),
+			queryFuncCreator(logger, queryClients, promClients, grpcEndpointSet, metrics.duplicatedQuery, metrics.ruleEvalWarnings, conf.query.httpMethod, conf.query.doNotAddThanosParams, conf.maxSourceResolution),
 			conf.lset,
 			// In our case the querying URL is the external URL because in Prometheus
 			// --web.external-url points to it i.e. it points at something where the user
@@ -891,6 +893,7 @@ func queryFuncCreator(
 	ruleEvalWarnings *prometheus.CounterVec,
 	httpMethod string,
 	doNotAddThanosParams bool,
+	maxSourceResolution string,
 ) func(partialResponseStrategy storepb.PartialResponseStrategy) rules.QueryFunc {
 
 	// queryFunc returns query function that hits the HTTP query API of query peers in randomized order until we get a result
@@ -919,6 +922,7 @@ func queryFuncCreator(
 						PartialResponseStrategy: partialResponseStrategy,
 						Method:                  httpMethod,
 						DoNotAddThanosParams:    doNotAddThanosParams,
+						MaxSourceResolution:     maxSourceResolution,
 					})
 					span.Finish()
 
diff --git a/docs/components/rule.md b/docs/components/rule.md
index 044148c3ba..80c7d8cbc9 100644
--- a/docs/components/rule.md
+++ b/docs/components/rule.md
@@ -370,6 +370,8 @@ Flags:
       --log.format=logfmt        Log format to use. Possible options: logfmt or
                                  json.
       --log.level=info           Log filtering level.
+      --max-source-resolution=MAX-SOURCE-RESOLUTION
+                                 Max resolution wanted for the data queried.
       --objstore.config=<content>
                                  Alternative to 'objstore.config-file'
                                  flag (mutually exclusive). Content of