diff --git a/receiver/googlecloudpubsubreceiver/documentation.md b/receiver/googlecloudpubsubreceiver/documentation.md
index 97839553911cc..8b5ad0edbcd9a 100644
--- a/receiver/googlecloudpubsubreceiver/documentation.md
+++ b/receiver/googlecloudpubsubreceiver/documentation.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The following telemetry is emitted by this component.
 Number of times a message couldn't be decoded by the configured encoder
 
 The receiver reads messages from Google Cloud Pub/Sub and tries to decode the message using the configured
-encoder. Each time a message fails to decoded the counter is increased. 
+encoder. Each time a message fails to decoded the counter is increased.
 
 
 | Unit | Metric Type | Value Type | Monotonic |
diff --git a/receiver/googlecloudpubsubreceiver/metadata.yaml b/receiver/googlecloudpubsubreceiver/metadata.yaml
index dc839a3e32d09..9360e1b4e482d 100644
--- a/receiver/googlecloudpubsubreceiver/metadata.yaml
+++ b/receiver/googlecloudpubsubreceiver/metadata.yaml
@@ -10,27 +10,27 @@ status:
 
 telemetry:
   metrics:
-    receiver.googlecloudpubsub.stream_restarts:
+    receiver.googlecloudpubsub.encoding_error:
       enabled: true
-      description: Number of times the stream (re)starts due to a Pub/Sub servers connection close
+      description: Number of times a message couldn't be decoded by the configured encoder
       unit: "1"
       sum:
         value_type: int
         monotonic: true
       extended_documentation: |
-        The receiver uses the Google Cloud Pub/Sub StreamingPull API and keeps a open connection. The Pub/Sub servers
-        recurrently close the connection after a time period to avoid a long-running sticky connection. This metric
-        counts the number of the resets that occurred during the lifetime of the container.
-    receiver.googlecloudpubsub.encoding_error:
+        The receiver reads messages from Google Cloud Pub/Sub and tries to decode the message using the configured
+        encoder. Each time a message fails to decoded the counter is increased.
+    receiver.googlecloudpubsub.stream_restarts:
       enabled: true
-      description: Number of times a message couldn't be decoded by the configured encoder
+      description: Number of times the stream (re)starts due to a Pub/Sub servers connection close
       unit: "1"
       sum:
         value_type: int
         monotonic: true
       extended_documentation: |
-        The receiver reads messages from Google Cloud Pub/Sub and tries to decode the message using the configured
-        encoder. Each time a message fails to decoded the counter is increased. 
+        The receiver uses the Google Cloud Pub/Sub StreamingPull API and keeps a open connection. The Pub/Sub servers
+        recurrently close the connection after a time period to avoid a long-running sticky connection. This metric
+        counts the number of the resets that occurred during the lifetime of the container.
 
 tests:
   config:
@@ -43,4 +43,3 @@ tests:
     ignore:
       # See https://github.com/census-instrumentation/opencensus-go/issues/1191 for more information.
       top: go.opencensus.io/stats/view.(*worker).start
-