diff --git a/experimental/CHANGELOG.md b/experimental/CHANGELOG.md
index d62009288d..1c77eafbad 100644
--- a/experimental/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/experimental/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ All notable changes to experimental packages in this project will be documented
 
 ### :books: (Refine Doc)
 
+* docs(metrics-exporters): fix wrong exporter const name in example [#3270](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/issues/3270) @pichlermarc
+
 ### :house: (Internal)
 
 ## 0.33.0
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-grpc/README.md b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-grpc/README.md
index 02f25fc855..e00bf05e41 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-grpc/README.md
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-grpc/README.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ const collectorOptions = {
   url: 'http://<collector-hostname>:<port>',
 };
 
-const exporter = new OTLPMetricExporter(collectorOptions);
+const metricExporter = new OTLPMetricExporter(collectorOptions);
 const meterProvider = new MeterProvider({});
 
 meterProvider.addMetricReader(new PeriodicExportingMetricReader({
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-http/README.md b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-http/README.md
index 28fa70613b..d495e53b38 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-http/README.md
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-http/README.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ const collectorOptions = {
   headers: {}, // an optional object containing custom headers to be sent with each request
   concurrencyLimit: 1, // an optional limit on pending requests
 };
-const exporter = new OTLPMetricExporter(collectorOptions);
+const metricExporter = new OTLPMetricExporter(collectorOptions);
 const meterProvider = new MeterProvider({});
 
 meterProvider.addMetricReader(new PeriodicExportingMetricReader({
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-proto/README.md b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-proto/README.md
index 1c1c115d48..a5d812236d 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-proto/README.md
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-exporter-metrics-otlp-proto/README.md
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ const { OTLPMetricExporter } =  require('@opentelemetry/exporter-metrics-otlp-pr
 const collectorOptions = {
   url: '<opentelemetry-collector-url>', // url is optional and can be omitted - default is http://localhost:4318/v1/metrics
 };
-const exporter = new OTLPMetricExporter(collectorOptions);
+const metricExporter = new OTLPMetricExporter(collectorOptions);
 const meterProvider = new MeterProvider({});
 
 meterProvider.addMetricReader(new PeriodicExportingMetricReader({