diff --git a/extension/src/plots/model/custom.ts b/extension/src/plots/model/custom.ts
index 3f6fcb0a6e..af9747b79b 100644
--- a/extension/src/plots/model/custom.ts
+++ b/extension/src/plots/model/custom.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export const doesCustomPlotAlreadyExist = (
     return value.param === param && value.metric === metric
   })
 
-const removeColumnTypeFromPath = (
+export const removeColumnTypeFromPath = (
   columnPath: string,
   type: string,
   fileSep: string
diff --git a/extension/src/plots/model/quickPick.test.ts b/extension/src/plots/model/quickPick.test.ts
index 20f9fbf5a9..2635b5aecf 100644
--- a/extension/src/plots/model/quickPick.test.ts
+++ b/extension/src/plots/model/quickPick.test.ts
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ describe('pickMetricAndParam', () => {
       {
         hasChildren: false,
         label: 'accuracy',
-        path: 'summary.json:accuracy',
+        path: 'metrics:summary.json:accuracy',
         type: ColumnType.METRICS
       }
     ])
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ describe('pickMetricAndParam', () => {
       {
         hasChildren: false,
         label: 'accuracy',
-        path: 'summary.json:accuracy',
+        path: 'metrics:summary.json:accuracy',
         type: ColumnType.METRICS
       }
     ])
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ describe('pickMetricAndParam', () => {
     }
     const expectedParam = {
       label: 'epochs',
-      path: 'summary.json:loss-params.yaml:epochs'
+      path: 'params:params.yaml:epochs'
     }
     mockedQuickPickValue
       .mockResolvedValueOnce(expectedMetric)
@@ -200,13 +200,13 @@ describe('pickMetricAndParam', () => {
       {
         hasChildren: false,
         label: 'accuracy',
-        path: 'summary.json:accuracy',
+        path: 'metrics:summary.json:accuracy',
         type: ColumnType.METRICS
       }
     ])
     expect(metricAndParam).toStrictEqual({
-      metric: expectedMetric.path,
-      param: expectedParam.path
+      metric: 'summary.json:loss',
+      param: 'params.yaml:epochs'
     })
   })
 })
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ describe('pickMetric', () => {
       {
         hasChildren: false,
         label: 'accuracy',
-        path: 'summary.json:accuracy',
+        path: 'metrics:summary.json:accuracy',
         type: ColumnType.METRICS
       }
     ])
@@ -250,12 +250,12 @@ describe('pickMetric', () => {
       {
         hasChildren: false,
         label: 'accuracy',
-        path: 'summary.json:accuracy',
+        path: 'metrics:summary.json:accuracy',
         type: ColumnType.METRICS
       }
     ])
 
-    expect(metric).toStrictEqual(expectedMetric.path)
+    expect(metric).toStrictEqual('summary.json:loss')
     expect(mockedQuickPickValue).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1)
     expect(mockedQuickPickValue).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
       [
@@ -265,9 +265,9 @@ describe('pickMetric', () => {
           value: { label: 'loss', path: 'metrics:summary.json:loss' }
         },
         {
-          description: 'summary.json:accuracy',
+          description: 'metrics:summary.json:accuracy',
           label: 'accuracy',
-          value: { label: 'accuracy', path: 'summary.json:accuracy' }
+          value: { label: 'accuracy', path: 'metrics:summary.json:accuracy' }
         }
       ],
       { title: Title.SELECT_METRIC_CUSTOM_PLOT }
diff --git a/extension/src/plots/model/quickPick.ts b/extension/src/plots/model/quickPick.ts
index fe491679ed..e9cacd4754 100644
--- a/extension/src/plots/model/quickPick.ts
+++ b/extension/src/plots/model/quickPick.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ import { getCustomPlotId } from './collect'
 import {
   getFullValuePath,
   CustomPlotsOrderValue,
-  isCheckpointValue
+  isCheckpointValue,
+  removeColumnTypeFromPath
 } from './custom'
 import {
   FILE_SEPARATOR,
@@ -126,7 +127,19 @@ export const pickMetricAndParam = async (columns: Column[]) => {
   if (!param) {
     return
   }
-  return { metric: metric.path, param: param.path }
+
+  return {
+    metric: removeColumnTypeFromPath(
+      metric.path,
+      ColumnType.METRICS,
+      FILE_SEPARATOR
+    ),
+    param: removeColumnTypeFromPath(
+      param.path,
+      ColumnType.PARAMS,
+      FILE_SEPARATOR
+    )
+  }
 }
 
 export const pickMetric = async (columns: Column[]) => {
@@ -144,5 +157,9 @@ export const pickMetric = async (columns: Column[]) => {
     return
   }
 
-  return metric.path
+  return removeColumnTypeFromPath(
+    metric.path,
+    ColumnType.METRICS,
+    FILE_SEPARATOR
+  )
 }