diff --git a/sdk/monitor/monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/CHANGELOG.md b/sdk/monitor/monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/CHANGELOG.md
index 2e00c7a73b53..32067e903bcc 100644
--- a/sdk/monitor/monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/sdk/monitor/monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,10 @@
 
 - Added support for operation name on dependencies and logs.
 
+### Bugs Fixed
+
+- Fixed usage of environment variable to disable resource metric creation.
+
 ### Other Changes
 
 - Fix setting statsbeat custom dimensions.
diff --git a/sdk/monitor/monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/src/utils/common.ts b/sdk/monitor/monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/src/utils/common.ts
index 619188666eec..0c93dd916e2d 100644
--- a/sdk/monitor/monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/src/utils/common.ts
+++ b/sdk/monitor/monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/src/utils/common.ts
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ import type { Resource } from "@opentelemetry/resources";
 import type { Attributes, HrTime } from "@opentelemetry/api";
 import { hrTimeToNanoseconds } from "@opentelemetry/core";
 import type { AnyValue } from "@opentelemetry/api-logs";
+import { ENV_OPENTELEMETRY_RESOURCE_METRIC_DISABLED } from "../Declarations/Constants.js";
 
 export function hrTimeToDate(hrTime: HrTime): Date {
   return new Date(hrTimeToNanoseconds(hrTime) / 1000000);
@@ -282,5 +283,5 @@ export function serializeAttribute(value: AnyValue): string {
 }
 
 export function shouldCreateResourceMetric(): boolean {
-  return !(process.env.ENV_OPENTELEMETRY_RESOURCE_METRIC_DISABLED?.toLowerCase() === "true");
+  return !(process.env[ENV_OPENTELEMETRY_RESOURCE_METRIC_DISABLED]?.toLowerCase() === "true");
 }
diff --git a/sdk/monitor/monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/test/internal/functional/trace.test.ts b/sdk/monitor/monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/test/internal/functional/trace.test.ts
index 8fa6f46b8126..4b27ed58449a 100644
--- a/sdk/monitor/monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/test/internal/functional/trace.test.ts
+++ b/sdk/monitor/monitor-opentelemetry-exporter/test/internal/functional/trace.test.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,10 @@
 
 import { assertCount, assertTraceExpectation } from "../../utils/assert.js";
 import { TraceBasicScenario } from "../../utils/basic.js";
-import { DEFAULT_BREEZE_ENDPOINT } from "../../../src/Declarations/Constants.js";
+import {
+  DEFAULT_BREEZE_ENDPOINT,
+  ENV_OPENTELEMETRY_RESOURCE_METRIC_DISABLED,
+} from "../../../src/Declarations/Constants.js";
 import nock from "nock";
 import { successfulBreezeResponse } from "../../utils/breezeTestUtils.js";
 import type { TelemetryItem as Envelope } from "../../../src/generated/index.js";
@@ -49,7 +52,7 @@ describe("Trace Exporter Scenarios", () => {
     let ingest: Envelope[] = [];
 
     beforeAll(() => {
-      process.env.ENV_OPENTELEMETRY_RESOURCE_METRIC_DISABLED = "true";
+      process.env[ENV_OPENTELEMETRY_RESOURCE_METRIC_DISABLED] = "true";
       nock(DEFAULT_BREEZE_ENDPOINT)
         .post("/v2.1/track", (body: Envelope[]) => {
           // todo: gzip is not supported by generated applicationInsightsClient