diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/it/BuiltinMetricsIT.java b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/it/BuiltinMetricsIT.java
index b4a21e3084..39ab3ffb23 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/it/BuiltinMetricsIT.java
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/it/BuiltinMetricsIT.java
@@ -68,12 +68,8 @@ public static void setUpClass() throws IOException {
     // Enable built in metrics
     BigtableDataSettings.enableBuiltinMetrics();
 
-    MetricServiceSettings settings =
-        MetricServiceSettings.newBuilder()
-            .setEndpoint("staging-monitoring.sandbox.googleapis.com:443")
-            .build();
     // Create a cloud monitoring client
-    metricClient = MetricServiceClient.create(settings);
+    metricClient = MetricServiceClient.create(g);
   }
 
   @AfterClass