diff --git a/equivalence_test.go b/equivalence_test.go
index aeda057..54ad10a 100644
--- a/equivalence_test.go
+++ b/equivalence_test.go
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ func TestEquivalenceStatsVsMetricsUploads(t *testing.T) {
 
 	ma.forEachRequest(func(emr *agentmetricspb.ExportMetricsServiceRequest) {
 		for _, metric := range emr.Metrics {
-			_ = se.ExportMetric(context.Background(), emr.Node, emr.Resource, metric)
+			_ = se.ExportMetricProto(context.Background(), emr.Node, emr.Resource, metric)
 		}
 	})
 	se.Flush()
diff --git a/metrics.go b/metrics.go
index dc29bf7..b19ba57 100644
--- a/metrics.go
+++ b/metrics.go
@@ -49,8 +49,14 @@ type metricPayload struct {
 	metric   *metricspb.Metric
 }
 
-// ExportMetric exports OpenCensus Metrics to Stackdriver Monitoring.
-func (se *statsExporter) ExportMetric(ctx context.Context, node *commonpb.Node, rsc *resourcepb.Resource, metric *metricspb.Metric) error {
+// ExportMetric exports OpenCensus Metrics proto to Stackdriver Monitoring.
+// Deprecated in lieu of ExportMetricProto
+func (se *statsExporter) ExportMetric(ctx context.Context, node *commonpb.Node, rsc *resourcepb.Resource, metricpb *metricspb.Metric) error {
+	return se.ExportMetricProto(ctx, node, rsc, metricpb)
+}
+
+// ExportMetricProto exports OpenCensus Metrics proto to Stackdriver Monitoring.
+func (se *statsExporter) ExportMetricProto(ctx context.Context, node *commonpb.Node, rsc *resourcepb.Resource, metric *metricspb.Metric) error {
 	if metric == nil {
 		return errNilMetric
 	}
diff --git a/stackdriver.go b/stackdriver.go
index a6e7748..59f292e 100644
--- a/stackdriver.go
+++ b/stackdriver.go
@@ -345,9 +345,15 @@ func (e *Exporter) ExportView(vd *view.Data) {
 	e.statsExporter.ExportView(vd)
 }
 
+// ExportMetricProto exports OpenCensus Metrics to Stackdriver Monitoring.
+func (e *Exporter) ExportMetricProto(ctx context.Context, node *commonpb.Node, rsc *resourcepb.Resource, metric *metricspb.Metric) error {
+	return e.statsExporter.ExportMetricProto(ctx, node, rsc, metric)
+}
+
 // ExportMetric exports OpenCensus Metrics to Stackdriver Monitoring.
+// Deprecated in lieu of ExportMetriProto
 func (e *Exporter) ExportMetric(ctx context.Context, node *commonpb.Node, rsc *resourcepb.Resource, metric *metricspb.Metric) error {
-	return e.statsExporter.ExportMetric(ctx, node, rsc, metric)
+	return e.statsExporter.ExportMetricProto(ctx, node, rsc, metric)
 }
 
 // ExportSpan exports a SpanData to Stackdriver Trace.