diff --git a/receiver/azuremonitorreceiver/README.md b/receiver/azuremonitorreceiver/README.md
index 6c4d7e4c74af..0aea8e39a4f4 100644
--- a/receiver/azuremonitorreceiver/README.md
+++ b/receiver/azuremonitorreceiver/README.md
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ receivers:
     auth: "default_credentials"
     metrics:
       - metric1 # This will scrape all known aggregations for "metric1"
-      - metric2/total # This will restrict scraping to "metric2" with the "Total" aggregation
+      - metric2/total # This will include "metric2" with the "Total" aggregation in the scraping
       - metric3/average # This will include "metric3" with the "Average" aggregation in the scraping
 ```
 
diff --git a/receiver/azuremonitorreceiver/scraper.go b/receiver/azuremonitorreceiver/scraper.go
index 0c2b29b447d5..2db35f0f0935 100644
--- a/receiver/azuremonitorreceiver/scraper.go
+++ b/receiver/azuremonitorreceiver/scraper.go
@@ -339,14 +339,15 @@ func (s *azureScraper) getResourceMetricsDefinitions(ctx context.Context, resour
 
 		for _, v := range nextResult.Value {
 			name := *v.Name.Value
-			if !isMetricMatchFilters(name, s.cfg.Metrics) {
+			aggregations := getMetricAggregations(name, s.cfg.Metrics)
+			if len(aggregations) == 0 {
 				continue
 			}
 
 			timeGrain := *v.MetricAvailabilities[0].TimeGrain
 			compositeKey := metricsCompositeKey{
 				timeGrain:    timeGrain,
-				aggregations: getMetricAggregations(name, s.cfg.Metrics),
+				aggregations: strings.Join(aggregations, ","),
 			}
 
 			if len(v.Dimensions) > 0 {
@@ -511,21 +512,17 @@ func (s *azureScraper) processTimeseriesData(
 	}
 }
 
-func isMetricMatchFilters(name string, filters []string) bool {
-	name = strings.ToLower(name)
-	for _, filter := range filters {
-		filter = strings.ToLower(filter)
-		if filter == name || strings.HasPrefix(filter, name+"/") {
-			return true
-		}
+func getMetricAggregations(name string, filters []string) []string {
+	if len(filters) == 0 {
+		return aggregations
 	}
 
-	return len(filters) == 0
-}
-
-func getMetricAggregations(name string, filters []string) string {
 	out := []string{}
 	for _, filter := range filters {
+		if strings.EqualFold(name, filter) {
+			return aggregations
+		}
+
 		for _, aggregation := range aggregations {
 			if strings.EqualFold(name+"/"+aggregation, filter) {
 				out = append(out, aggregation)
@@ -533,9 +530,5 @@ func getMetricAggregations(name string, filters []string) string {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if len(out) == 0 {
-		out = aggregations
-	}
-
-	return strings.Join(out, ",")
+	return out
 }
diff --git a/receiver/azuremonitorreceiver/scraper_test.go b/receiver/azuremonitorreceiver/scraper_test.go
index 09e9e3c23c90..44737212c2dc 100644
--- a/receiver/azuremonitorreceiver/scraper_test.go
+++ b/receiver/azuremonitorreceiver/scraper_test.go
@@ -656,84 +656,42 @@ func TestAzureScraperClientOptions(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestIsMetricMatchFilters(t *testing.T) {
-	testMetricName := "MetricName1"
-	tests := []struct {
-		name    string
-		filters []string
-		want    bool
-	}{
-		{
-			"filters_empty",
-			[]string{},
-			true,
-		},
-		{
-			"filters_include_metric",
-			[]string{"foo", testMetricName, "bar"},
-			true,
-		},
-		{
-			"filters_include_metric_ignore_case",
-			[]string{"foo", strings.ToLower(testMetricName), "bar"},
-			true,
-		},
-		{
-			"filters_include_metric_aggregation",
-			[]string{"foo/count", testMetricName + "/total", "bar/total"},
-			true,
-		},
-		{
-			"filters_exclude_metric",
-			[]string{"foo", "bar"},
-			false,
-		},
-	}
-
-	for _, tt := range tests {
-		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			got := isMetricMatchFilters(testMetricName, tt.filters)
-			require.Equal(t, tt.want, got)
-		})
-	}
-}
-
 func TestGetMetricAggregations(t *testing.T) {
 	testMetricName := "MetricName"
 	tests := []struct {
 		name    string
 		filters []string
-		want    string
+		want    []string
 	}{
 		{
 			"filters_empty",
 			[]string{},
-			strings.Join(aggregations, ","),
+			aggregations,
 		},
 		{
 			"filters_include_metric",
 			[]string{"foo", testMetricName, "bar"},
-			strings.Join(aggregations, ","),
+			aggregations,
 		},
 		{
 			"filters_include_metric_ignore_case",
 			[]string{"foo", strings.ToLower(testMetricName), "bar"},
-			strings.Join(aggregations, ","),
+			aggregations,
 		},
 		{
 			"filters_include_metric_aggregation",
 			[]string{"foo/count", testMetricName + "/" + aggregations[0], "bar/total"},
-			aggregations[0],
+			[]string{aggregations[0]},
 		},
 		{
 			"filters_include_metric_aggregation_ignore_case",
 			[]string{"foo/count", testMetricName + "/" + strings.ToLower(aggregations[0]), "bar/total"},
-			aggregations[0],
+			[]string{aggregations[0]},
 		},
 		{
 			"filters_include_metric_multiple_aggregations",
 			[]string{"foo/count", testMetricName + "/" + aggregations[0], testMetricName + "/" + aggregations[2]},
-			aggregations[0] + "," + aggregations[2],
+			[]string{aggregations[0], aggregations[2]},
 		},
 	}