diff --git a/.changelog/3428.fixed.txt b/.changelog/3428.fixed.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4428fc1d24
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changelog/3428.fixed.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+fix(metrics): use `sumologic.metrics.excludeNamespaceRegex` instead of `sumologic.logs.container.excludeNamespaceRegex`
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/deploy/helm/sumologic/README.md b/deploy/helm/sumologic/README.md
index 0f80f8671d..ae52cb0ae5 100644
--- a/deploy/helm/sumologic/README.md
+++ b/deploy/helm/sumologic/README.md
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ The following table lists the configurable parameters of the Sumo Logic chart an
 | `sumologic.logs.additionalFields`                                                     | Additional Fields to be created in Sumo Logic. [Sumo Logic help](https://help.sumologic.com/docs/manage/fields/#manage-fields)                                                                                                                                                                             | `[]`                                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | `sumologic.logs.sourceType`                                                           | The type of the Sumo Logic source being used for logs ingestion. Can be `http` for [HTTP Source](https://help.sumologic.com/docs/send-data/hosted-collectors/http-source/logs-metrics/) or `otlp` for [OTLP/HTTP Source](https://help.sumologic.com/docs/send-data/hosted-collectors/http-source/otlp/).   | `otlp`                                                                                                                                                                               |
 | `sumologic.metrics.enabled`                                                           | Set the enabled flag to false for disabling metrics ingestion altogether.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  | `true`                                                                                                                                                                               |
+| `sumologic.metrics.excludeNamespaceRegex`                                             | A regular expression for Kubernetes namespace names. Metrics matching this namespace will not be sent to Sumo.                                                                                                                                                                                             | `""`                                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | `sumologic.metrics.otelcol.extraProcessors`                                           | Extra processors configuration for metrics pipeline. See [/docs/collecting-application-metrics.md#metrics-modifications](/docs/collecting-application-metrics.md#metrics-modifications) for more information.                                                                                              | `[]`                                                                                                                                                                                 |
 | `sumologic.metrics.remoteWriteProxy.enabled`                                          | Enable a load balancing proxy for Prometheus remote writes. [See docs for more information.](/docs/prometheus.md#using-a-load-balancing-proxy-for-prometheus-remote-write)                                                                                                                                 | `false`                                                                                                                                                                              |
 | `sumologic.metrics.remoteWriteProxy.config.clientBodyBufferSize`                      | See the [nginx documentation](http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_core_module.html#client_body_buffer_size). Increase if you've also increased samples per send in Prometheus remote write.                                                                                                             | `64k`                                                                                                                                                                                |
diff --git a/deploy/helm/sumologic/conf/metrics/otelcol/processors.yaml b/deploy/helm/sumologic/conf/metrics/otelcol/processors.yaml
index 8d39f501a0..28ced10baa 100644
--- a/deploy/helm/sumologic/conf/metrics/otelcol/processors.yaml
+++ b/deploy/helm/sumologic/conf/metrics/otelcol/processors.yaml
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ routing:
 source:
   collector: {{ .Values.sumologic.collectorName | default .Values.sumologic.clusterName | quote }}
   exclude:
-    k8s.namespace.name: {{ include "logs.excludeNamespaces" . }}
+    k8s.namespace.name: {{ include "metrics.excludeNamespaces" . }}
 
 ## The Sumo Logic Schema processor modifies the metadata on logs, metrics and traces sent to Sumo Logic
 ## so that the Sumo Logic apps can make full use of the ingested data.
diff --git a/deploy/helm/sumologic/templates/_helpers/_metrics.tpl b/deploy/helm/sumologic/templates/_helpers/_metrics.tpl
index 1c795c9bf0..87ce4b980c 100644
--- a/deploy/helm/sumologic/templates/_helpers/_metrics.tpl
+++ b/deploy/helm/sumologic/templates/_helpers/_metrics.tpl
@@ -309,3 +309,22 @@ Example Usage:
 {{- define "metrics.collector.autoscaling.enabled" -}}
 {{- template "is.autoscaling.enabled" (dict "autoscalingEnabled" .Values.sumologic.metrics.collector.otelcol.autoscaling.enabled "Values" .Values) -}}
 {{- end -}}
+
+{{/*
+Returns list of namespaces to exclude
+
+Example:
+
+{{ include "metrics.excludeNamespaces" . }}
+*/}}
+{{- define "metrics.excludeNamespaces" -}}
+{{- $excludeNamespaceRegex := .Values.sumologic.metrics.excludeNamespaceRegex | quote -}}
+{{- if eq .Values.sumologic.collectionMonitoring false -}}
+  {{- if .Values.sumologic.metrics.excludeNamespaceRegex -}}
+  {{- $excludeNamespaceRegex = printf "%s|%s" ( include "sumologic.namespace" .  ) .Values.sumologic.metrics.excludeNamespaceRegex | quote -}}
+  {{- else -}}
+  {{- $excludeNamespaceRegex = printf "%s" ( include "sumologic.namespace" .  ) | quote -}}
+  {{- end -}}
+{{- end -}}
+{{ print $excludeNamespaceRegex }}
+{{- end -}}
diff --git a/deploy/helm/sumologic/values.yaml b/deploy/helm/sumologic/values.yaml
index 7e1252f2eb..32c28ee03e 100644
--- a/deploy/helm/sumologic/values.yaml
+++ b/deploy/helm/sumologic/values.yaml
@@ -552,6 +552,10 @@ sumologic:
     ## - kubelet_runtime_operations_duration_seconds
     dropHistogramBuckets: true
 
+    ## A regular expression for namespaces.
+    ## Metrics that match these namespaces will be excluded from Sumo.
+    excludeNamespaceRegex: ""
+
     otelcol:
       ## Includes additional processors into pipelines.
       ## It can be used for filtering metrics, renaming, changing metadata and so on.
diff --git a/tests/helm/testdata/goldenfile/metadata_metrics_otc/exclude-namespace.input.yaml b/tests/helm/testdata/goldenfile/metadata_metrics_otc/exclude-namespace.input.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d6732648cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/helm/testdata/goldenfile/metadata_metrics_otc/exclude-namespace.input.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+sumologic:
+  collectionMonitoring: false
+  metrics:
+    excludeNamespaceRegex: my_metrics_excludeNamespaceRegex
diff --git a/tests/helm/testdata/goldenfile/metadata_metrics_otc/exclude-namespace.output.yaml b/tests/helm/testdata/goldenfile/metadata_metrics_otc/exclude-namespace.output.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..639435ceba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/helm/testdata/goldenfile/metadata_metrics_otc/exclude-namespace.output.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,201 @@
+---
+# Source: sumologic/templates/metrics/otelcol/configmap.yaml
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: RELEASE-NAME-sumologic-otelcol-metrics
+  namespace: sumologic
+  labels:
+    app: RELEASE-NAME-sumologic-otelcol-metrics
+    chart: "sumologic-%CURRENT_CHART_VERSION%"
+    release: "RELEASE-NAME"
+    heritage: "Helm"
+data:
+  config.yaml: |
+    exporters:
+      sumologic/default:
+        decompose_otlp_histograms: true
+        endpoint: ${SUMO_ENDPOINT_DEFAULT_OTLP_METRICS_SOURCE}
+        max_request_body_size: 16777216
+        metric_format: otlp
+        sending_queue:
+          enabled: true
+          num_consumers: 10
+          queue_size: 10000
+          storage: file_storage
+        timeout: 30s
+    extensions:
+      file_storage:
+        compaction:
+          directory: /tmp
+          on_rebound: true
+        directory: /var/lib/storage/otc
+        timeout: 10s
+      health_check: {}
+      pprof: {}
+    processors:
+      batch:
+        send_batch_max_size: 2048
+        send_batch_size: 1024
+        timeout: 1s
+      filter/drop_unnecessary_metrics:
+        error_mode: ignore
+        metrics:
+          metric:
+          - resource.attributes["job"] != "pod-annotations" and IsMatch(name, "scrape_.*")
+          - IsMatch(name, "^(apiserver_request_duration_seconds|coredns_dns_request_duration_seconds|kubelet_runtime_operations_duration_seconds)$")
+      groupbyattrs:
+        keys:
+        - container
+        - namespace
+        - pod
+        - service
+      groupbyattrs/group_by_name:
+        keys:
+        - __name__
+        - job
+      k8s_tagger:
+        extract:
+          delimiter: _
+          labels:
+          - key: '*'
+            tag_name: pod_labels_%s
+          metadata:
+          - daemonSetName
+          - deploymentName
+          - nodeName
+          - replicaSetName
+          - serviceName
+          - statefulSetName
+        owner_lookup_enabled: true
+        passthrough: false
+        pod_association:
+        - from: build_hostname
+      memory_limiter:
+        check_interval: 5s
+        limit_percentage: 75
+        spike_limit_percentage: 20
+      metricstransform:
+        transforms:
+          action: update
+          include: ^prometheus_remote_write_(.*)$$
+          match_type: regexp
+          new_name: $$1
+      resource:
+        attributes:
+        - action: upsert
+          from_attribute: namespace
+          key: k8s.namespace.name
+        - action: delete
+          key: namespace
+        - action: upsert
+          from_attribute: pod
+          key: k8s.pod.name
+        - action: delete
+          key: pod
+        - action: upsert
+          from_attribute: container
+          key: k8s.container.name
+        - action: delete
+          key: container
+        - action: upsert
+          from_attribute: node
+          key: k8s.node.name
+        - action: delete
+          key: node
+        - action: upsert
+          from_attribute: service
+          key: prometheus_service
+        - action: delete
+          key: service
+        - action: upsert
+          from_attribute: service.name
+          key: job
+        - action: delete
+          key: service.name
+        - action: upsert
+          key: _origin
+          value: kubernetes
+        - action: upsert
+          key: cluster
+          value: kubernetes
+      resource/delete_source_metadata:
+        attributes:
+        - action: delete
+          key: _sourceCategory
+        - action: delete
+          key: _sourceHost
+        - action: delete
+          key: _sourceName
+      resource/remove_k8s_pod_pod_name:
+        attributes:
+        - action: delete
+          key: k8s.pod.pod_name
+      source:
+        collector: kubernetes
+        exclude:
+          k8s.namespace.name: sumologic|my_metrics_excludeNamespaceRegex
+      sumologic_schema:
+        add_cloud_namespace: false
+      transform/remove_name:
+        error_mode: ignore
+        metric_statements:
+        - context: resource
+          statements:
+          - delete_key(attributes, "__name__")
+      transform/set_name:
+        error_mode: ignore
+        metric_statements:
+        - context: datapoint
+          statements:
+          - set(attributes["__name__"], metric.name) where IsMatch(metric.name, "^cloudprovider_.*")
+    receivers:
+      otlp:
+        protocols:
+          http:
+            endpoint: 0.0.0.0:4318
+      telegraf:
+        agent_config: |
+          [agent]
+            interval = "30s"
+            flush_interval = "30s"
+            omit_hostname = true
+          [[inputs.http_listener_v2]]
+            # wait longer than prometheus
+            read_timeout = "30s"
+            write_timeout = "30s"
+            service_address = ":9888"
+            data_format = "prometheusremotewrite"
+            paths = [
+              "/prometheus.metrics"
+            ]
+    service:
+      extensions:
+      - health_check
+      - file_storage
+      - pprof
+      pipelines:
+        metrics:
+          exporters:
+          - sumologic/default
+          processors:
+          - memory_limiter
+          - metricstransform
+          - groupbyattrs
+          - resource
+          - k8s_tagger
+          - source
+          - sumologic_schema
+          - resource/remove_k8s_pod_pod_name
+          - resource/delete_source_metadata
+          - transform/set_name
+          - groupbyattrs/group_by_name
+          - transform/remove_name
+          - filter/drop_unnecessary_metrics
+          - batch
+          receivers:
+          - telegraf
+          - otlp
+      telemetry:
+        logs:
+          level: info
diff --git a/tests/helm/testdata/goldenfile/metadata_metrics_otc/templates.input.yaml b/tests/helm/testdata/goldenfile/metadata_metrics_otc/templates.input.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..572ef01a47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/helm/testdata/goldenfile/metadata_metrics_otc/templates.input.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+sumologic:
+  collectorName: my_collectorName
+  metrics:
+    excludeNamespaceRegex: my_metrics_excludeNamespaceRegex
+    otelcol:
+      extraProcessors:
+        - resource/add-metrics-resource-attribute:
+            attributes:
+              - action: insert
+                key: environment
+                value: staging
+        - resource/remove-metrics-resource-attribute:
+            attributes:
+              - action: delete
+                key: redundant-attribute
diff --git a/tests/helm/testdata/goldenfile/metadata_metrics_otc/templates.output.yaml b/tests/helm/testdata/goldenfile/metadata_metrics_otc/templates.output.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e64b57d252
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/helm/testdata/goldenfile/metadata_metrics_otc/templates.output.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+---
+# Source: sumologic/templates/metrics/otelcol/configmap.yaml
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: ConfigMap
+metadata:
+  name: RELEASE-NAME-sumologic-otelcol-metrics
+  namespace: sumologic
+  labels:
+    app: RELEASE-NAME-sumologic-otelcol-metrics
+    chart: "sumologic-%CURRENT_CHART_VERSION%"
+    release: "RELEASE-NAME"
+    heritage: "Helm"
+data:
+  config.yaml: |
+    exporters:
+      sumologic/default:
+        decompose_otlp_histograms: true
+        endpoint: ${SUMO_ENDPOINT_DEFAULT_OTLP_METRICS_SOURCE}
+        max_request_body_size: 16777216
+        metric_format: otlp
+        sending_queue:
+          enabled: true
+          num_consumers: 10
+          queue_size: 10000
+          storage: file_storage
+        timeout: 30s
+    extensions:
+      file_storage:
+        compaction:
+          directory: /tmp
+          on_rebound: true
+        directory: /var/lib/storage/otc
+        timeout: 10s
+      health_check: {}
+      pprof: {}
+    processors:
+      batch:
+        send_batch_max_size: 2048
+        send_batch_size: 1024
+        timeout: 1s
+      filter/drop_unnecessary_metrics:
+        error_mode: ignore
+        metrics:
+          metric:
+          - resource.attributes["job"] != "pod-annotations" and IsMatch(name, "scrape_.*")
+          - IsMatch(name, "^(apiserver_request_duration_seconds|coredns_dns_request_duration_seconds|kubelet_runtime_operations_duration_seconds)$")
+      groupbyattrs:
+        keys:
+        - container
+        - namespace
+        - pod
+        - service
+      groupbyattrs/group_by_name:
+        keys:
+        - __name__
+        - job
+      k8s_tagger:
+        extract:
+          delimiter: _
+          labels:
+          - key: '*'
+            tag_name: pod_labels_%s
+          metadata:
+          - daemonSetName
+          - deploymentName
+          - nodeName
+          - replicaSetName
+          - serviceName
+          - statefulSetName
+        owner_lookup_enabled: true
+        passthrough: false
+        pod_association:
+        - from: build_hostname
+      memory_limiter:
+        check_interval: 5s
+        limit_percentage: 75
+        spike_limit_percentage: 20
+      metricstransform:
+        transforms:
+          action: update
+          include: ^prometheus_remote_write_(.*)$$
+          match_type: regexp
+          new_name: $$1
+      resource:
+        attributes:
+        - action: upsert
+          from_attribute: namespace
+          key: k8s.namespace.name
+        - action: delete
+          key: namespace
+        - action: upsert
+          from_attribute: pod
+          key: k8s.pod.name
+        - action: delete
+          key: pod
+        - action: upsert
+          from_attribute: container
+          key: k8s.container.name
+        - action: delete
+          key: container
+        - action: upsert
+          from_attribute: node
+          key: k8s.node.name
+        - action: delete
+          key: node
+        - action: upsert
+          from_attribute: service
+          key: prometheus_service
+        - action: delete
+          key: service
+        - action: upsert
+          from_attribute: service.name
+          key: job
+        - action: delete
+          key: service.name
+        - action: upsert
+          key: _origin
+          value: kubernetes
+        - action: upsert
+          key: cluster
+          value: kubernetes
+      resource/add-metrics-resource-attribute:
+        attributes:
+        - action: insert
+          key: environment
+          value: staging
+      resource/delete_source_metadata:
+        attributes:
+        - action: delete
+          key: _sourceCategory
+        - action: delete
+          key: _sourceHost
+        - action: delete
+          key: _sourceName
+      resource/remove-metrics-resource-attribute:
+        attributes:
+        - action: delete
+          key: redundant-attribute
+      resource/remove_k8s_pod_pod_name:
+        attributes:
+        - action: delete
+          key: k8s.pod.pod_name
+      source:
+        collector: my_collectorName
+        exclude:
+          k8s.namespace.name: my_metrics_excludeNamespaceRegex
+      sumologic_schema:
+        add_cloud_namespace: false
+      transform/remove_name:
+        error_mode: ignore
+        metric_statements:
+        - context: resource
+          statements:
+          - delete_key(attributes, "__name__")
+      transform/set_name:
+        error_mode: ignore
+        metric_statements:
+        - context: datapoint
+          statements:
+          - set(attributes["__name__"], metric.name) where IsMatch(metric.name, "^cloudprovider_.*")
+    receivers:
+      otlp:
+        protocols:
+          http:
+            endpoint: 0.0.0.0:4318
+      telegraf:
+        agent_config: |
+          [agent]
+            interval = "30s"
+            flush_interval = "30s"
+            omit_hostname = true
+          [[inputs.http_listener_v2]]
+            # wait longer than prometheus
+            read_timeout = "30s"
+            write_timeout = "30s"
+            service_address = ":9888"
+            data_format = "prometheusremotewrite"
+            paths = [
+              "/prometheus.metrics"
+            ]
+    service:
+      extensions:
+      - health_check
+      - file_storage
+      - pprof
+      pipelines:
+        metrics:
+          exporters:
+          - sumologic/default
+          processors:
+          - memory_limiter
+          - metricstransform
+          - groupbyattrs
+          - resource
+          - k8s_tagger
+          - source
+          - sumologic_schema
+          - resource/add-metrics-resource-attribute
+          - resource/remove-metrics-resource-attribute
+          - resource/remove_k8s_pod_pod_name
+          - resource/delete_source_metadata
+          - transform/set_name
+          - groupbyattrs/group_by_name
+          - transform/remove_name
+          - filter/drop_unnecessary_metrics
+          - batch
+          receivers:
+          - telegraf
+          - otlp
+      telemetry:
+        logs:
+          level: info