diff --git a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/src/opentelemetry/exporter/otlp/proto/http/metric_exporter/__init__.py b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/src/opentelemetry/exporter/otlp/proto/http/metric_exporter/__init__.py
index becdab257fe..1244eb2b6ea 100644
--- a/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/src/opentelemetry/exporter/otlp/proto/http/metric_exporter/__init__.py
+++ b/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http/src/opentelemetry/exporter/otlp/proto/http/metric_exporter/__init__.py
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ def __init__(
                 {"Content-Encoding": self._compression.value}
             )
 
-        self._common_configuration(preferred_temporality)
+        self._common_configuration(preferred_temporality, preferred_aggregation)
 
     def _export(self, serialized_data: str):
         data = serialized_data