diff --git a/pkg/controllers/provisioning/scheduling/metrics.go b/pkg/controllers/provisioning/scheduling/metrics.go
index 45444176ea..3497d00be8 100644
--- a/pkg/controllers/provisioning/scheduling/metrics.go
+++ b/pkg/controllers/provisioning/scheduling/metrics.go
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ var (
 		crmetrics.Registry,
 		prometheus.GaugeOpts{
 			Namespace: metrics.Namespace,
-			Name:      "ignored_pod_count",
+			Subsystem: schedulerSubsystem,
+			Name:      "ignored_pods_count",
 			Help:      "Number of pods ignored during scheduling by Karpenter",
 		},
 		[]string{},