diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-config/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/config/ExporterProperties.java b/prometheus-metrics-config/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/config/ExporterProperties.java
index 6b081816d..ba24b0883 100644
--- a/prometheus-metrics-config/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/config/ExporterProperties.java
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-config/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/config/ExporterProperties.java
@@ -10,19 +10,23 @@ public class ExporterProperties {
   // milliseconds is the default - we only provide a boolean flag to avoid a breaking change
   private static final String PROMETHEUS_TIMESTAMPS_IN_MS = "prometheusTimestampsInMs";
   private static final String EXEMPLARS_ON_ALL_METRIC_TYPES = "exemplarsOnAllMetricTypes";
+  private static final String ADD_SUFFIXES_TO_METRIC_NAMES = "addSuffixesToMetricNames";
   private static final String PREFIX = "io.prometheus.exporter";
 
   @Nullable private final Boolean includeCreatedTimestamps;
   @Nullable private final Boolean prometheusTimestampsInMs;
   @Nullable private final Boolean exemplarsOnAllMetricTypes;
+  @Nullable private final Boolean addSuffixesToMetricNames;
 
   private ExporterProperties(
       @Nullable Boolean includeCreatedTimestamps,
       @Nullable Boolean prometheusTimestampsInMs,
-      @Nullable Boolean exemplarsOnAllMetricTypes) {
+      @Nullable Boolean exemplarsOnAllMetricTypes,
+      @Nullable Boolean addSuffixesToMetricNames) {
     this.includeCreatedTimestamps = includeCreatedTimestamps;
     this.prometheusTimestampsInMs = prometheusTimestampsInMs;
     this.exemplarsOnAllMetricTypes = exemplarsOnAllMetricTypes;
+    this.addSuffixesToMetricNames = addSuffixesToMetricNames;
   }
 
   /** Include the {@code _created} timestamps in text format? Default is {@code false}. */
@@ -43,6 +47,10 @@ public boolean getExemplarsOnAllMetricTypes() {
     return exemplarsOnAllMetricTypes != null && exemplarsOnAllMetricTypes;
   }
 
+  public boolean isAddSuffixesToMetricNames() {
+    return addSuffixesToMetricNames == null || addSuffixesToMetricNames;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Note that this will remove entries from {@code properties}. This is because we want to know if
    * there are unused properties remaining after all properties have been loaded.
@@ -55,8 +63,13 @@ static ExporterProperties load(Map<Object, Object> properties)
         Util.loadBoolean(PREFIX + "." + PROMETHEUS_TIMESTAMPS_IN_MS, properties);
     Boolean exemplarsOnAllMetricTypes =
         Util.loadBoolean(PREFIX + "." + EXEMPLARS_ON_ALL_METRIC_TYPES, properties);
+    Boolean addSuffixesToMetricNames =
+        Util.loadBoolean(PREFIX + "." + ADD_SUFFIXES_TO_METRIC_NAMES, properties);
     return new ExporterProperties(
-        includeCreatedTimestamps, timestampsInMs, exemplarsOnAllMetricTypes);
+        includeCreatedTimestamps,
+        timestampsInMs,
+        exemplarsOnAllMetricTypes,
+        addSuffixesToMetricNames);
   }
 
   public static Builder builder() {
@@ -68,6 +81,7 @@ public static class Builder {
     @Nullable private Boolean includeCreatedTimestamps;
     @Nullable private Boolean exemplarsOnAllMetricTypes;
     boolean prometheusTimestampsInMs;
+    @Nullable private Boolean addSuffixesToMetricNames;
 
     private Builder() {}
 
@@ -89,9 +103,18 @@ public Builder prometheusTimestampsInMs(boolean prometheusTimestampsInMs) {
       return this;
     }
 
+    /** See {@link #isAddSuffixesToMetricNames()}. */
+    public Builder addSuffixesToMetricNames(boolean addSuffixesToMetricNames) {
+      this.addSuffixesToMetricNames = addSuffixesToMetricNames;
+      return this;
+    }
+
     public ExporterProperties build() {
       return new ExporterProperties(
-          includeCreatedTimestamps, prometheusTimestampsInMs, exemplarsOnAllMetricTypes);
+          includeCreatedTimestamps,
+          prometheusTimestampsInMs,
+          exemplarsOnAllMetricTypes,
+          addSuffixesToMetricNames);
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-core/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/core/metrics/HistogramTest.java b/prometheus-metrics-core/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/core/metrics/HistogramTest.java
index 19e4cdc79..9fc3ad3c3 100644
--- a/prometheus-metrics-core/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/core/metrics/HistogramTest.java
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-core/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/core/metrics/HistogramTest.java
@@ -949,7 +949,7 @@ public void testDefaults() throws IOException {
 
     // text
     ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer = new OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter(false, true);
+    OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer = OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter.create();
     writer.write(out, MetricSnapshots.of(snapshot), EscapingScheme.ALLOW_UTF8);
     assertThat(out).hasToString(expectedTextFormat);
   }
diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-core/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/core/metrics/InfoTest.java b/prometheus-metrics-core/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/core/metrics/InfoTest.java
index fccc5d8d7..9500c25ad 100644
--- a/prometheus-metrics-core/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/core/metrics/InfoTest.java
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-core/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/core/metrics/InfoTest.java
@@ -120,11 +120,15 @@ public void testConstLabelsDuplicate2() {
   }
 
   private void assertTextFormat(String expected, Info info) throws IOException {
-    OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer = new OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter(true, true);
+    OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer =
+        OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter.builder()
+            .setCreatedTimestampsEnabled(true)
+            .setExemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled(true)
+            .build();
     ByteArrayOutputStream outputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
     writer.write(
         outputStream, MetricSnapshots.of(info.collect()), EscapingScheme.UNDERSCORE_ESCAPING);
-    String result = outputStream.toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
+    String result = outputStream.toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
     if (!result.contains(expected)) {
       throw new AssertionError(expected + " is not contained in the following output:\n" + result);
     }
diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-exposition-textformats/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/expositionformats/ExpositionFormats.java b/prometheus-metrics-exposition-textformats/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/expositionformats/ExpositionFormats.java
index 0ffa23a58..98f3c1427 100644
--- a/prometheus-metrics-exposition-textformats/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/expositionformats/ExpositionFormats.java
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-exposition-textformats/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/expositionformats/ExpositionFormats.java
@@ -30,10 +30,12 @@ public static ExpositionFormats init(ExporterProperties properties) {
         PrometheusTextFormatWriter.builder()
             .setIncludeCreatedTimestamps(properties.getIncludeCreatedTimestamps())
             .setTimestampsInMs(properties.getPrometheusTimestampsInMs())
+            .setAddSuffixesToMetricNames(properties.isAddSuffixesToMetricNames())
             .build(),
         OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter.builder()
             .setCreatedTimestampsEnabled(properties.getIncludeCreatedTimestamps())
             .setExemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled(properties.getExemplarsOnAllMetricTypes())
+            .setAddSuffixesToMetricNames(properties.isAddSuffixesToMetricNames())
             .build());
   }
 
diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-exposition-textformats/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/expositionformats/OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter.java b/prometheus-metrics-exposition-textformats/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/expositionformats/OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter.java
index 1ba1c627d..aafc50eab 100644
--- a/prometheus-metrics-exposition-textformats/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/expositionformats/OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter.java
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-exposition-textformats/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/expositionformats/OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter.java
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ public class OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter implements ExpositionFormatWriter {
   public static class Builder {
     boolean createdTimestampsEnabled;
     boolean exemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled;
+    boolean addSuffixesToMetricNames = true;
 
     private Builder() {}
 
@@ -67,9 +68,19 @@ public Builder setExemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled(boolean exemplarsOnAllMetricT
       return this;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @param addSuffixesToMetricNames whether to add the conventional suffixes to metric names,
+     *     like _total for counters, _bucket for histogram buckets, _count and _sum for histograms
+     *     and summaries, _info for info metrics. This is enabled by default.
+     */
+    public Builder setAddSuffixesToMetricNames(boolean addSuffixesToMetricNames) {
+      this.addSuffixesToMetricNames = addSuffixesToMetricNames;
+      return this;
+    }
+
     public OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter build() {
       return new OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter(
-          createdTimestampsEnabled, exemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled);
+          createdTimestampsEnabled, exemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled, addSuffixesToMetricNames);
     }
   }
 
@@ -77,15 +88,27 @@ public OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter build() {
       "application/openmetrics-text; version=1.0.0; charset=utf-8";
   private final boolean createdTimestampsEnabled;
   private final boolean exemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled;
+  private final boolean addSuffixesToMetricNames;
 
   /**
    * @param createdTimestampsEnabled whether to include the _created timestamp in the output - This
    *     will produce an invalid OpenMetrics output, but is kept for backwards compatibility.
+   * @deprecated this constructor is deprecated and will be removed in the next major version - use
+   *     {@link #builder()} or {@link #create()} instead
    */
+  @Deprecated
   public OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter(
       boolean createdTimestampsEnabled, boolean exemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled) {
+    this(createdTimestampsEnabled, exemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled, true);
+  }
+
+  private OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter(
+      boolean createdTimestampsEnabled,
+      boolean exemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled,
+      boolean addSuffixesToMetricNames) {
     this.createdTimestampsEnabled = createdTimestampsEnabled;
     this.exemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled = exemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled;
+    this.addSuffixesToMetricNames = addSuffixesToMetricNames;
   }
 
   public static Builder builder() {
@@ -400,7 +423,8 @@ private void writeNameAndLabels(
       metricInsideBraces = true;
       writer.write('{');
     }
-    writeName(writer, name + (suffix != null ? suffix : ""), NameType.Metric);
+    writeName(
+        writer, name + (suffix != null && addSuffixesToMetricNames ? suffix : ""), NameType.Metric);
     if (!labels.isEmpty() || additionalLabelName != null) {
       writeLabels(
           writer,
diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-exposition-textformats/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/expositionformats/PrometheusTextFormatWriter.java b/prometheus-metrics-exposition-textformats/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/expositionformats/PrometheusTextFormatWriter.java
index 5dc3f629b..24a185743 100644
--- a/prometheus-metrics-exposition-textformats/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/expositionformats/PrometheusTextFormatWriter.java
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-exposition-textformats/src/main/java/io/prometheus/metrics/expositionformats/PrometheusTextFormatWriter.java
@@ -44,10 +44,12 @@ public class PrometheusTextFormatWriter implements ExpositionFormatWriter {
 
   private final boolean writeCreatedTimestamps;
   private final boolean timestampsInMs;
+  private final boolean addSuffixesToMetricNames;
 
   public static class Builder {
     boolean includeCreatedTimestamps;
     boolean timestampsInMs = true;
+    private boolean addSuffixesToMetricNames = true;
 
     private Builder() {}
 
@@ -65,8 +67,19 @@ public Builder setTimestampsInMs(boolean timestampsInMs) {
       return this;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * @param addSuffixesToMetricNames whether to add the conventional suffixes to metric names,
+     *     like _total for counters, _bucket for histogram buckets, _count and _sum for histograms
+     *     and summaries, _info for info metrics. This is enabled by default.
+     */
+    public Builder setAddSuffixesToMetricNames(boolean addSuffixesToMetricNames) {
+      this.addSuffixesToMetricNames = addSuffixesToMetricNames;
+      return this;
+    }
+
     public PrometheusTextFormatWriter build() {
-      return new PrometheusTextFormatWriter(includeCreatedTimestamps, timestampsInMs);
+      return new PrometheusTextFormatWriter(
+          includeCreatedTimestamps, timestampsInMs, addSuffixesToMetricNames);
     }
   }
 
@@ -78,12 +91,14 @@ public PrometheusTextFormatWriter build() {
    */
   @Deprecated
   public PrometheusTextFormatWriter(boolean writeCreatedTimestamps) {
-    this(writeCreatedTimestamps, false);
+    this(writeCreatedTimestamps, false, true);
   }
 
-  private PrometheusTextFormatWriter(boolean writeCreatedTimestamps, boolean timestampsInMs) {
+  private PrometheusTextFormatWriter(
+      boolean writeCreatedTimestamps, boolean timestampsInMs, boolean addSuffixesToMetricNames) {
     this.writeCreatedTimestamps = writeCreatedTimestamps;
     this.timestampsInMs = timestampsInMs;
+    this.addSuffixesToMetricNames = addSuffixesToMetricNames;
   }
 
   public static PrometheusTextFormatWriter.Builder builder() {
@@ -400,7 +415,8 @@ private void writeNameAndLabels(
       metricInsideBraces = true;
       writer.write('{');
     }
-    writeName(writer, name + (suffix != null ? suffix : ""), NameType.Metric);
+    writeName(
+        writer, name + (suffix != null && addSuffixesToMetricNames ? suffix : ""), NameType.Metric);
     if (!labels.isEmpty() || additionalLabelName != null) {
       writeLabels(
           writer, labels, additionalLabelName, additionalLabelValue, metricInsideBraces, scheme);
diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-caffeine/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/caffeine/CacheMetricsCollectorTest.java b/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-caffeine/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/caffeine/CacheMetricsCollectorTest.java
index 245a071e9..b9c59da07 100644
--- a/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-caffeine/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/caffeine/CacheMetricsCollectorTest.java
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-caffeine/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/caffeine/CacheMetricsCollectorTest.java
@@ -12,7 +12,12 @@
 import io.prometheus.metrics.config.EscapingScheme;
 import io.prometheus.metrics.expositionformats.OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter;
 import io.prometheus.metrics.model.registry.PrometheusRegistry;
-import io.prometheus.metrics.model.snapshots.*;
+import io.prometheus.metrics.model.snapshots.CounterSnapshot;
+import io.prometheus.metrics.model.snapshots.DataPointSnapshot;
+import io.prometheus.metrics.model.snapshots.GaugeSnapshot;
+import io.prometheus.metrics.model.snapshots.Labels;
+import io.prometheus.metrics.model.snapshots.MetricSnapshots;
+import io.prometheus.metrics.model.snapshots.SummarySnapshot;
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.UncheckedIOException;
@@ -310,10 +315,14 @@ private DataPointSnapshot getDataPointSnapshot(
 
   private String convertToOpenMetricsFormat(PrometheusRegistry registry) {
     final ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    final OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer = new OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter(true, true);
+    final OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer =
+        OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter.builder()
+            .setCreatedTimestampsEnabled(true)
+            .setExemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled(true)
+            .build();
     try {
       writer.write(out, registry.scrape(), EscapingScheme.ALLOW_UTF8);
-      return out.toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8.name());
+      return out.toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
     } catch (IOException e) {
       throw new UncheckedIOException(e);
     }
diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/dropwizard/DropwizardExportsTest.java b/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/dropwizard/DropwizardExportsTest.java
index 9d21c7381..f8208efc8 100644
--- a/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/dropwizard/DropwizardExportsTest.java
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/dropwizard/DropwizardExportsTest.java
@@ -339,7 +339,11 @@ public Double getValue() {
 
   private String convertToOpenMetricsFormat(PrometheusRegistry _registry) {
     ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer = new OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter(true, true);
+    OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer =
+        OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter.builder()
+            .setCreatedTimestampsEnabled(true)
+            .setExemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled(true)
+            .build();
     try {
       writer.write(out, _registry.scrape(), EscapingScheme.UNDERSCORE_ESCAPING);
       return out.toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard5/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/dropwizard5/DropwizardExportsTest.java b/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard5/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/dropwizard5/DropwizardExportsTest.java
index c3a5fa4d5..f21f8a317 100644
--- a/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard5/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/dropwizard5/DropwizardExportsTest.java
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard5/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/dropwizard5/DropwizardExportsTest.java
@@ -348,7 +348,11 @@ public Double getValue() {
 
   private String convertToOpenMetricsFormat(PrometheusRegistry _registry) {
     ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer = new OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter(true, true);
+    OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer =
+        OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter.builder()
+            .setCreatedTimestampsEnabled(true)
+            .setExemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled(true)
+            .build();
     try {
       writer.write(out, _registry.scrape(), EscapingScheme.UNDERSCORE_ESCAPING);
       return out.toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard5/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/dropwizard5/labels/CustomLabelMapperTest.java b/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard5/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/dropwizard5/labels/CustomLabelMapperTest.java
index 183b50b24..a89edd077 100644
--- a/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard5/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/dropwizard5/labels/CustomLabelMapperTest.java
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-dropwizard5/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/dropwizard5/labels/CustomLabelMapperTest.java
@@ -217,7 +217,11 @@ public void test_WHEN_AdditionalLabels_THEN_ShouldReturnCorrectSample() {
 
   private String convertToOpenMetricsFormat(MetricSnapshots snapshots) {
     ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer = new OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter(true, true);
+    OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer =
+        OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter.builder()
+            .setCreatedTimestampsEnabled(true)
+            .setExemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled(true)
+            .build();
     try {
       writer.write(out, snapshots, EscapingScheme.UNDERSCORE_ESCAPING);
       return out.toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-guava/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/guava/CacheMetricsCollectorTest.java b/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-guava/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/guava/CacheMetricsCollectorTest.java
index 31da91f20..62fdaa08a 100644
--- a/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-guava/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/guava/CacheMetricsCollectorTest.java
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-guava/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/guava/CacheMetricsCollectorTest.java
@@ -160,7 +160,11 @@ private DataPointSnapshot getDataPointSnapshot(
 
   private String convertToOpenMetricsFormat(PrometheusRegistry registry) {
     final ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    final OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer = new OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter(true, true);
+    final OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer =
+        OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter.builder()
+            .setCreatedTimestampsEnabled(true)
+            .setExemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled(true)
+            .build();
     try {
       writer.write(out, registry.scrape(), EscapingScheme.ALLOW_UTF8);
       return out.toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-jvm/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/jvm/TestUtil.java b/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-jvm/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/jvm/TestUtil.java
index 64e15590c..bc2480d05 100644
--- a/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-jvm/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/jvm/TestUtil.java
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-instrumentation-jvm/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/instrumentation/jvm/TestUtil.java
@@ -11,7 +11,11 @@ class TestUtil {
 
   static String convertToOpenMetricsFormat(MetricSnapshots snapshots) throws IOException {
     ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer = new OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter(true, true);
+    OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer =
+        OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter.builder()
+            .setCreatedTimestampsEnabled(true)
+            .setExemplarsOnAllMetricTypesEnabled(true)
+            .build();
     writer.write(out, snapshots, EscapingScheme.ALLOW_UTF8);
     return out.toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
   }
diff --git a/prometheus-metrics-simpleclient-bridge/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/simpleclient/bridge/SimpleclientCollectorTest.java b/prometheus-metrics-simpleclient-bridge/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/simpleclient/bridge/SimpleclientCollectorTest.java
index a17ed8bc4..1945fdf83 100644
--- a/prometheus-metrics-simpleclient-bridge/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/simpleclient/bridge/SimpleclientCollectorTest.java
+++ b/prometheus-metrics-simpleclient-bridge/src/test/java/io/prometheus/metrics/simpleclient/bridge/SimpleclientCollectorTest.java
@@ -266,7 +266,8 @@ private String origOpenMetrics() throws IOException {
 
   private String newOpenMetrics() throws IOException {
     ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
-    OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer = new OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter(true, false);
+    OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter writer =
+        OpenMetricsTextFormatWriter.builder().setCreatedTimestampsEnabled(true).build();
     writer.write(out, newRegistry.scrape(), EscapingScheme.ALLOW_UTF8);
     return out.toString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
   }