diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1d93e2dbbe47..71c66871352a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 - `stackdriverexporter`: Remove the stackdriver exporter in favor of the identical googlecloud exporter (#9274)
 - `filelog`, `journald`, `syslog`, `tcplog`, `udplog`: Remove `preserve_to` field from sub-parsers (#9331)
+- `kafkametricsreceiver`: instrumentation name updated from `otelcol/kafkametrics` to `otelcol/kafkametricsreceiver` (#9406)
 
 ### 🚩 Deprecations 🚩
 
diff --git a/receiver/kafkametricsreceiver/receiver.go b/receiver/kafkametricsreceiver/receiver.go
index f91e78dca4c5..58ecf98a0a5d 100644
--- a/receiver/kafkametricsreceiver/receiver.go
+++ b/receiver/kafkametricsreceiver/receiver.go
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 const (
-	instrumentationLibName = "otelcol/kafkametrics"
+	instrumentationLibName = "otelcol/kafkametricsreceiver"
 	brokersScraperName     = "brokers"
 	topicsScraperName      = "topics"
 	consumersScraperName   = "consumers"