diff --git a/receiver/awscontainerinsightreceiver/internal/k8sapiserver/prometheus_scraper.go b/receiver/awscontainerinsightreceiver/internal/k8sapiserver/prometheus_scraper.go
index e31f9506350e..21540a450904 100644
--- a/receiver/awscontainerinsightreceiver/internal/k8sapiserver/prometheus_scraper.go
+++ b/receiver/awscontainerinsightreceiver/internal/k8sapiserver/prometheus_scraper.go
@@ -33,24 +33,25 @@ const (
 var (
 	controlPlaneMetricAllowList = []string{
 		"apiserver_admission_controller_admission_duration_seconds.*",
-		"apiserver_admission_step_admission_duration_seconds.*",
-		"apiserver_admission_webhook_admission_duration_seconds.*",
-		"apiserver_current_inflight_requests",
-		"apiserver_current_inqueue_requests",
-		"apiserver_flowcontrol_rejected_requests_total",
-		"apiserver_flowcontrol_request_concurrency_limit",
-		"apiserver_longrunning_requests",
-		"apiserver_request_duration_seconds.*",
-		"apiserver_request_total",
-		"apiserver_requested_deprecated_apis",
-		"apiserver_storage_list_duration_seconds.*",
-		"apiserver_storage_objects",
-		"apiserver_storage_db_total_size_in_bytes.*",
-		"apiserver_storage_size_bytes.*",
-		"etcd_db_total_size_in_bytes.*",
-		"etcd_request_duration_seconds.*",
-		"rest_client_request_duration_seconds.*",
-		"rest_client_requests_total",
+		// we want to exclude the separate metric apiserver_admission_step_admission_duration_seconds_summary
+		"^apiserver_admission_step_admission_duration_seconds_(bucket|sum|count)$",
+		"^apiserver_admission_webhook_admission_duration_seconds.*",
+		"^apiserver_current_inflight_requests",
+		"^apiserver_current_inqueue_requests",
+		"^apiserver_flowcontrol_rejected_requests_total",
+		"^apiserver_flowcontrol_request_concurrency_limit",
+		"^apiserver_longrunning_requests",
+		"^apiserver_request_duration_seconds.*",
+		"^apiserver_request_total",
+		"^apiserver_requested_deprecated_apis",
+		"^apiserver_storage_list_duration_seconds.*",
+		"^apiserver_storage_objects",
+		"^apiserver_storage_db_total_size_in_bytes.*",
+		"^apiserver_storage_size_bytes.*",
+		"^etcd_db_total_size_in_bytes.*",
+		"^etcd_request_duration_seconds.*",
+		"^rest_client_request_duration_seconds.*",
+		"^rest_client_requests_total",
 	}
 )