diff --git a/test/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/test/compaction/ExternalCompactionProgressIT.java b/test/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/test/compaction/ExternalCompactionProgressIT.java
index d9df860bc26..4ddcd01f9a2 100644
--- a/test/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/test/compaction/ExternalCompactionProgressIT.java
+++ b/test/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/test/compaction/ExternalCompactionProgressIT.java
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ private static Thread getMetricsCheckerThread(AtomicLong totalEntriesRead,
           }
           TestStatsDSink.Metric metric = TestStatsDSink.parseStatsDMetric(s);
           final String metricName = metric.getName();
-          if (!metricName.startsWith("accumulo.compactor.entries")) {
+          if (!metricName.startsWith("accumulo.compaction.entries")) {
             continue;
           }
           int value = Integer.parseInt(metric.getValue());