diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 041e0dd6bde8..c68abe2f5468 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Main (unreleased)
 
+- [BUGFIX] spanmetric `traces_spanmetrics_calls_total_total` renamed to `traces_spanmetrics_calls_total`
+
 - [BUGFIX] `const_labels` in `traces_config` is now correctly parsed in the remote writer exporter (@fredr)
 
 - [ENHANCEMENT] opentelemetry trace exporters can now be configured to support Oauth utilizing
diff --git a/pkg/traces/remotewriteexporter/exporter.go b/pkg/traces/remotewriteexporter/exporter.go
index 10bf7c2c6fae..0c6f9c59a579 100644
--- a/pkg/traces/remotewriteexporter/exporter.go
+++ b/pkg/traces/remotewriteexporter/exporter.go
@@ -22,14 +22,13 @@ import (
 )
 
 const (
-	nameLabelKey  = "__name__"
-	sumSuffix     = "sum"
-	countSuffix   = "count"
-	bucketSuffix  = "bucket"
-	leStr         = "le"
-	infBucket     = "+Inf"
-	counterSuffix = "total"
-	noSuffix      = ""
+	nameLabelKey = "__name__"
+	sumSuffix    = "sum"
+	countSuffix  = "count"
+	bucketSuffix = "bucket"
+	leStr        = "le"
+	infBucket    = "+Inf"
+	noSuffix     = ""
 )
 
 type dataPoint interface {
@@ -164,22 +163,23 @@ func (e *remoteWriteExporter) processScalarMetric(app storage.Appender, m pdata.
 	switch m.DataType() {
 	case pdata.MetricDataTypeSum:
 		dataPoints := m.Sum().DataPoints()
-		if err := e.handleScalarIntDataPoints(app, m.Name(), counterSuffix, dataPoints); err != nil {
+		if err := e.handleScalarIntDataPoints(app, m.Name(), dataPoints); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 	case pdata.MetricDataTypeGauge:
 		dataPoints := m.Gauge().DataPoints()
-		if err := e.handleScalarIntDataPoints(app, m.Name(), noSuffix, dataPoints); err != nil {
+		if err := e.handleScalarIntDataPoints(app, m.Name(), dataPoints); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 	}
+
 	return nil
 }
 
-func (e *remoteWriteExporter) handleScalarIntDataPoints(app storage.Appender, name, suffix string, dataPoints pdata.NumberDataPointSlice) error {
+func (e *remoteWriteExporter) handleScalarIntDataPoints(app storage.Appender, name string, dataPoints pdata.NumberDataPointSlice) error {
 	for ix := 0; ix < dataPoints.Len(); ix++ {
 		dataPoint := dataPoints.At(ix)
-		if err := e.appendDataPoint(app, name, suffix, dataPoint, float64(dataPoint.IntVal())); err != nil {
+		if err := e.appendDataPoint(app, name, noSuffix, dataPoint, float64(dataPoint.IntVal())); err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 	}