diff --git a/exporter/prometheusremotewriteexporter/exporter.go b/exporter/prometheusremotewriteexporter/exporter.go
index af46ff50fe0..c74f63dcc80 100644
--- a/exporter/prometheusremotewriteexporter/exporter.go
+++ b/exporter/prometheusremotewriteexporter/exporter.go
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ func (prwe *prwExporter) handleScalarMetric(tsMap map[string]*prompb.TimeSeries,
 	// int points
 	case otlp.MetricDescriptor_MONOTONIC_INT64, otlp.MetricDescriptor_INT64:
 		if metric.Int64DataPoints == nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("nil data point field in metric %v", metric.GetMetricDescriptor().Name)
+			return fmt.Errorf("nil data point field in metric %s", metric.GetMetricDescriptor().Name)
 		}
 
 		for _, pt := range metric.Int64DataPoints {
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ func (prwe *prwExporter) handleScalarMetric(tsMap map[string]*prompb.TimeSeries,
 	// double points
 	case otlp.MetricDescriptor_MONOTONIC_DOUBLE, otlp.MetricDescriptor_DOUBLE:
 		if metric.DoubleDataPoints == nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("nil data point field in metric %v", metric.GetMetricDescriptor().Name)
+			return fmt.Errorf("nil data point field in metric %s", metric.GetMetricDescriptor().Name)
 		}
 		for _, pt := range metric.DoubleDataPoints {
 
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ func (prwe *prwExporter) handleScalarMetric(tsMap map[string]*prompb.TimeSeries,
 func (prwe *prwExporter) handleHistogramMetric(tsMap map[string]*prompb.TimeSeries, metric *otlp.Metric) error {
 
 	if metric.HistogramDataPoints == nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("nil data point field in metric %v", metric.GetMetricDescriptor().Name)
+		return fmt.Errorf("nil data point field in metric %s", metric.GetMetricDescriptor().Name)
 	}
 
 	for _, pt := range metric.HistogramDataPoints {