diff --git a/website/docs/metrics.md b/website/docs/metrics.md
index d3b1c16f93b..fc3f6bf44ec 100644
--- a/website/docs/metrics.md
+++ b/website/docs/metrics.md
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ In the excerpt above, notice `templateRunTimeNS` and `constraintCount`. The form
 The additional log volume from enabling the stats logging can be quite high.
 ## Metrics
 
+> If you are using a Prometheus client library, for counter metrics, the _total suffix is recommended and sometimes automatically appended by client libraries to indicate that the metric represents a cumulative total.
+
 Below are the list of metrics provided by Gatekeeper:
 
 ### Constraint
@@ -164,7 +166,7 @@ Below are the list of metrics provided by Gatekeeper:
 
     Aggregation: `Distribution`
 
-- Name: `gatekeeper_mutation_request_count`
+- Name: `gatekeeper_mutation_request_count `
 
     Description: `The number of requests that are routed to mutation webhook`
 
diff --git a/website/versioned_docs/version-v3.15.x/metrics.md b/website/versioned_docs/version-v3.15.x/metrics.md
index d3b1c16f93b..fc3f6bf44ec 100644
--- a/website/versioned_docs/version-v3.15.x/metrics.md
+++ b/website/versioned_docs/version-v3.15.x/metrics.md
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ In the excerpt above, notice `templateRunTimeNS` and `constraintCount`. The form
 The additional log volume from enabling the stats logging can be quite high.
 ## Metrics
 
+> If you are using a Prometheus client library, for counter metrics, the _total suffix is recommended and sometimes automatically appended by client libraries to indicate that the metric represents a cumulative total.
+
 Below are the list of metrics provided by Gatekeeper:
 
 ### Constraint
@@ -164,7 +166,7 @@ Below are the list of metrics provided by Gatekeeper:
 
     Aggregation: `Distribution`
 
-- Name: `gatekeeper_mutation_request_count`
+- Name: `gatekeeper_mutation_request_count `
 
     Description: `The number of requests that are routed to mutation webhook`