diff --git a/agent/agent-tooling/src/main/java/com/microsoft/applicationinsights/agent/internal/telemetry/MetricFilter.java b/agent/agent-tooling/src/main/java/com/microsoft/applicationinsights/agent/internal/telemetry/MetricFilter.java
index af6011a5608..55c8fa7ba39 100644
--- a/agent/agent-tooling/src/main/java/com/microsoft/applicationinsights/agent/internal/telemetry/MetricFilter.java
+++ b/agent/agent-tooling/src/main/java/com/microsoft/applicationinsights/agent/internal/telemetry/MetricFilter.java
@@ -3,10 +3,7 @@
 
 package com.microsoft.applicationinsights.agent.internal.telemetry;
 
-import static java.util.Arrays.asList;
-
 import com.microsoft.applicationinsights.agent.internal.configuration.Configuration;
-import com.microsoft.applicationinsights.agent.internal.perfcounter.MetricNames;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashSet;
@@ -16,16 +13,6 @@
 
 public class MetricFilter {
 
-  private static final Set<String> NON_FILTERABLE_METRIC_NAMES =
-      new HashSet<>(
-          asList(
-              MetricNames.TOTAL_CPU_PERCENTAGE,
-              MetricNames.PROCESS_CPU_PERCENTAGE,
-              MetricNames.PROCESS_CPU_PERCENTAGE_NORMALIZED,
-              MetricNames.PROCESS_MEMORY,
-              MetricNames.TOTAL_MEMORY,
-              MetricNames.PROCESS_IO));
-
   // OpenTelemetry Collector also supports include
   // but we aren't adding this support, at least not yet, since it implicitly excludes everything
   // else
@@ -38,8 +25,8 @@ public MetricFilter(Configuration.ProcessorConfig metricFilterConfiguration) {
     this.exclude = new IncludeExclude(metricFilterConfiguration.exclude);
   }
 
-  boolean matches(String metricName) {
-    return !exclude.matches(metricName);
+  boolean exclude(String metricName) {
+    return exclude.matches(metricName);
   }
 
   public static class IncludeExclude {
@@ -85,12 +72,9 @@ boolean matches(String metricName) {
   }
 
   public static boolean shouldSkip(String metricName, List<MetricFilter> metricFilters) {
-    if (!MetricFilter.NON_FILTERABLE_METRIC_NAMES.contains(metricName)) {
-      for (MetricFilter metricFilter : metricFilters) {
-        if (!metricFilter.matches(metricName)) {
-          // user configuration filtered out this metric name
-          return true;
-        }
+    for (MetricFilter metricFilter : metricFilters) {
+      if (metricFilter.exclude(metricName)) {
+        return true;
       }
     }
     return false;