diff --git a/cmd/promtool/unittest.go b/cmd/promtool/unittest.go
index 682ebc66b..6069ec3f9 100644
--- a/cmd/promtool/unittest.go
+++ b/cmd/promtool/unittest.go
@@ -228,6 +228,7 @@ func (tg *testGroup) test(evalInterval time.Duration, groupOrderMap map[string]i
 	var errs []error
 	for ts := mint; ts.Before(maxt) || ts.Equal(maxt); ts = ts.Add(evalInterval) {
 		// Collects the alerts asked for unit testing.
+		var evalErrs []error
 		suite.WithSamplesTill(ts, func(err error) {
 			if err != nil {
 				errs = append(errs, err)
@@ -237,13 +238,16 @@ func (tg *testGroup) test(evalInterval time.Duration, groupOrderMap map[string]i
 				g.Eval(suite.Context(), ts)
 				for _, r := range g.Rules() {
 					if r.LastError() != nil {
-						errs = append(errs, errors.Errorf("    rule: %s, time: %s, err: %v",
+						evalErrs = append(evalErrs, errors.Errorf("    rule: %s, time: %s, err: %v",
 							r.Name(), ts.Sub(time.Unix(0, 0).UTC()), r.LastError()))
 					}
 				}
 			}
 		})
-		if len(errs) > 0 {
+		errs = append(errs, evalErrs...)
+		// Only end testing at this point if errors occurred evaluating above,
+		// rather than any test failures already collected in errs.
+		if len(evalErrs) > 0 {
 			return errs
 		}