diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index ccd8da177c..0b7aacfabb 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ the release.
   ([#1460](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo/pull/1460))
 * [frontendproxy] remove deprecated start_child_span option
   ([#1469](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo/pull/1469))
+* [currency] fix metric name
+  ([#1470](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo/pull/1470))
 * [frontend] disable instrumentation-fs library
   ([#1473](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-demo/pull/1473))
 
diff --git a/src/currencyservice/src/server.cpp b/src/currencyservice/src/server.cpp
index 218f2881b6..ff194edd77 100644
--- a/src/currencyservice/src/server.cpp
+++ b/src/currencyservice/src/server.cpp
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv) {
   initTracer();
   initMeter();
   initLogger();
-  currency_counter = initIntCounter(name, version);
+  currency_counter = initIntCounter("app.currency", version);
   logger = getLogger(name);
   RunServer(port);