diff --git a/src/metabase/analytics/prometheus.clj b/src/metabase/analytics/prometheus.clj
index 844ec651d7bd3e28d6dedee0e0e964c20a398bb7..f67e3d15d60158192ce9ec2460a9f5a7dd0112fc 100644
--- a/src/metabase/analytics/prometheus.clj
+++ b/src/metabase/analytics/prometheus.clj
@@ -207,10 +207,10 @@
                        {:description "Number of successful responses from SCIM endpoints"})
    (prometheus/counter :metabase-scim/response-error
                        {:description "Number of error responses from SCIM endpoints"})
-   (prometheus/counter :metabase-query-processor/metrics
-                       {:description "Number of queries consuming metrics processed by the query processor."})
-   (prometheus/counter :metabase-query-processor/metric-errors
-                       {:description "Number of errors when processing metrics."})])
+   (prometheus/counter :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust
+                       {:description "Number of queries with metrics processed by the metrics adjust middleware."})
+   (prometheus/counter :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust-errors
+                       {:description "Number of errors when processing metrics in the metrics adjust middleware."})])
 
 (defn- setup-metrics!
   "Instrument the application. Conditionally done when some setting is set. If [[prometheus-server-port]] is not set it
diff --git a/src/metabase/query_processor/middleware/metrics.clj b/src/metabase/query_processor/middleware/metrics.clj
index 805a36d9a93e3480951989445d499bbcd033d2d1..c9ea89c100ca50818b9f59addb6a1a7d63b34f6f 100644
--- a/src/metabase/query_processor/middleware/metrics.clj
+++ b/src/metabase/query_processor/middleware/metrics.clj
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@
   (if-not (find-first-metric query)
     query
     (do
-      (prometheus/inc! :metabase-query-processor/metrics)
+      (prometheus/inc! :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust)
       (try
         (let [query (lib.walk/walk
                      query
@@ -266,5 +266,5 @@
             (when-let [metric (find-first-metric <>)]
               (throw (ex-info "Failed to replace metric" {:metric metric})))))
         (catch Throwable e
-          (prometheus/inc! :metabase-query-processor/metric-errors)
+          (prometheus/inc! :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust-errors)
           (throw e))))))
diff --git a/test/metabase/query_processor/middleware/metrics_test.clj b/test/metabase/query_processor/middleware/metrics_test.clj
index e32643568d8e30c8d74ff38459a1caee91e5a0b2..4b97c95ac52c8eb531c2ef5cf9f996f65ca7bb36 100644
--- a/test/metabase/query_processor/middleware/metrics_test.clj
+++ b/test/metabase/query_processor/middleware/metrics_test.clj
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@
   (comp #'metrics/adjust #'fetch-source-query/resolve-source-cards))
 
 (defn- check-prometheus-metrics!
-  [& {expected-metrics-count  :metabase-query-processor/metrics
-      expected-metrics-errors :metabase-query-processor/metric-errors
+  [& {expected-metrics-count  :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust
+      expected-metrics-errors :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust-errors
       metric-and-mp           :metric-and-mp
       query-fn                :query-fn
       check-fn                :check-fn}]
@@ -76,14 +76,14 @@
         read-metric          #(% @metrics 0)]
     (with-redefs [prometheus/inc! #(swap! metrics update % (fnil inc 0))]
       (check-fn query)
-      (is (= expected-metrics-count (read-metric :metabase-query-processor/metrics)))
-      (is (= expected-metrics-errors (read-metric :metabase-query-processor/metric-errors))))))
+      (is (= expected-metrics-count (read-metric :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust)))
+      (is (= expected-metrics-errors (read-metric :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust-errors))))))
 
 (deftest adjust-prometheus-metrics-test
   (testing "adjustment of query with no metrics does not increment either counter"
     (check-prometheus-metrics!
-     :metabase-query-processor/metrics 0
-     :metabase-query-processor/metric-errors 0
+     :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust 0
+     :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust-errors 0
      :query-fn (fn [_mp _metric]
                  (-> (lib/query meta/metadata-provider (meta/table-metadata :products))
                      (lib/aggregate (lib/avg (meta/field-metadata :products :rating)))))
@@ -92,15 +92,15 @@
                         (adjust %)))))
   (testing "successful adjustment does not increment error counter"
     (check-prometheus-metrics!
-     :metabase-query-processor/metrics 1
-     :metabase-query-processor/metric-errors 0
+     :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust 1
+     :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust-errors 0
      :check-fn #(is (=? {:stages [{:source-table (meta/id :products)
                                    :aggregation  [[:avg {} [:field {} (meta/id :products :rating)]]]}]}
                         (adjust %)))))
   (testing "failure to adjust :metric clauses increments error counter"
     (check-prometheus-metrics!
-     :metabase-query-processor/metrics 1
-     :metabase-query-processor/metric-errors 1
+     :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust 1
+     :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust-errors 1
      :check-fn (fn [query]
                  (with-redefs [metrics/adjust-metric-stages (fn [_ _ stages] stages)]
                    (is (thrown-with-msg?
@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@
                         (adjust query)))))))
   (testing "exceptions from other libs also increment error counter"
     (check-prometheus-metrics!
-     :metabase-query-processor/metrics 1
-     :metabase-query-processor/metric-errors 1
+     :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust 1
+     :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust-errors 1
      :check-fn (fn [query]
                  (with-redefs [lib.metadata/bulk-metadata-or-throw (fn [& _] (throw (Exception. "Test exception")))]
                    (is (thrown-with-msg?
@@ -119,8 +119,8 @@
                         (adjust query)))))))
   (testing "metric missing aggregation increments counter and throws exception"
     (check-prometheus-metrics!
-     :metabase-query-processor/metrics 1
-     :metabase-query-processor/metric-errors 1
+     :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust 1
+     :metabase-query-processor/metrics-adjust-errors 1
      :metric-and-mp (mock-metric (-> (lib/query meta/metadata-provider (meta/table-metadata :products))))
      :query-fn (fn [mp metric]
                  (-> (lib/query mp (meta/table-metadata :products))