diff --git a/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver/internal/scraper/processscraper/aggregate_process_fallback.go b/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver/internal/scraper/processscraper/aggregate_process_fallback.go
index 3b325c4d4f7b..dce6d7fe6ad7 100644
--- a/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver/internal/scraper/processscraper/aggregate_process_fallback.go
+++ b/receiver/hostmetricsreceiver/internal/scraper/processscraper/aggregate_process_fallback.go
@@ -9,6 +9,6 @@ package processscraper // import "github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collec
 const enableProcessesCount = false
 const enableProcessesCreated = false
 
-func (s *scraper) getAggregateProcessMetadata() (aggregateProcessMetadata, error) {
+func (s *scraper) getAggregateProcessMetadata(_ processHandles) (aggregateProcessMetadata, error) {
 	return aggregateProcessMetadata{}, nil
 }