diff --git a/logging/google/cloud/logging/_helpers.py b/logging/google/cloud/logging/_helpers.py
index 837028f716d7..ed7a0ba8cf7b 100644
--- a/logging/google/cloud/logging/_helpers.py
+++ b/logging/google/cloud/logging/_helpers.py
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 from google.cloud.logging.entries import StructEntry
 from google.cloud.logging.entries import TextEntry
 
-METADATA_URL = "http://metadata/computeMetadata/v1/"
+METADATA_URL = "http://metadata.google.internal./computeMetadata/v1/"
 METADATA_HEADERS = {"Metadata-Flavor": "Google"}