diff --git a/go/vt/vtgate/vtgate.go b/go/vt/vtgate/vtgate.go
index 9545ac7fd87..95ac2cad058 100644
--- a/go/vt/vtgate/vtgate.go
+++ b/go/vt/vtgate/vtgate.go
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ func Init(
 			"Rows affected by a write (DML) operation through the VTgate API",
 			[]string{"Operation", "Keyspace", "DbType"}),
 		queryTextCharsProcessed: stats.NewCountersWithMultiLabels(
-			"VtgateSQLTextCounts",
+			"VtgateQueryTextCharactersProcessed",
 			"Vtgate API query SQL text counts",
 			[]string{"Operation", "Keyspace", "DbType"}),