diff --git a/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc
index 751afbb13b0..f6148f7526d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG-developer.next.asciidoc
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ The list below covers the major changes between 7.0.0-rc2 and main only.
 - Fix the multiple host support for mongodb module {pull}34624[34624]
 - Skip HTTPJSON flakey test. {issue}34929[34929] {pull}35138[35138]
 - Fix ingest pipeline for panw module to parse url scheme correctly {pull}35757[35757]
+- Renamed an httpjson input metric to follow naming conventions. `httpjson_interval_pages_total` was renamed to `httpjson_interval_pages` because the `_total` suffix is reserved for counters. {issue}35933[35933] {pull}36169[36169]
 
 ==== Added
 
diff --git a/x-pack/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-httpjson.asciidoc b/x-pack/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-httpjson.asciidoc
index 34bcc3b1a7e..00384f16319 100644
--- a/x-pack/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-httpjson.asciidoc
+++ b/x-pack/filebeat/docs/inputs/input-httpjson.asciidoc
@@ -1560,7 +1560,7 @@ observe the activity of the input.
 | `httpjson_interval_total`                  | Total number of intervals executed.
 | `httpjson_interval_errors_total`           | Total number of interval errors.
 | `httpjson_interval_execution_time`         | Histogram of the interval execution time.
-| `httpjson_interval_pages_total`            | Histogram of the total number of pages per interval.
+| `httpjson_interval_pages`                  | Histogram of the total number of pages per interval.
 | `httpjson_interval_pages_execution_time`   | Histogram of the interval pages execution time.
 |=======
 
diff --git a/x-pack/filebeat/input/httpjson/metrics.go b/x-pack/filebeat/input/httpjson/metrics.go
index d1c019789c3..4e0ba508c01 100644
--- a/x-pack/filebeat/input/httpjson/metrics.go
+++ b/x-pack/filebeat/input/httpjson/metrics.go
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ func newInputMetrics(reg *monitoring.Registry) *inputMetrics {
 		GetOrRegister("histogram", metrics.NewHistogram(out.intervalExecutionTime))
 	_ = adapter.GetGoMetrics(reg, "httpjson_interval_pages_execution_time", adapter.Accept).
 		GetOrRegister("histogram", metrics.NewHistogram(out.intervalPageExecutionTime))
-	_ = adapter.GetGoMetrics(reg, "httpjson_interval_pages_total", adapter.Accept).
+	_ = adapter.GetGoMetrics(reg, "httpjson_interval_pages", adapter.Accept).
 		GetOrRegister("histogram", metrics.NewHistogram(out.intervalPages))
 
 	return out