diff --git a/src/plugins/vis_type_timeseries/server/lib/vis_data/request_processors/series/rate.js b/src/plugins/vis_type_timeseries/server/lib/vis_data/request_processors/series/rate.js
index 468d5e6c92d2f34..8dbff25a4933aff 100644
--- a/src/plugins/vis_type_timeseries/server/lib/vis_data/request_processors/series/rate.js
+++ b/src/plugins/vis_type_timeseries/server/lib/vis_data/request_processors/series/rate.js
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ export const createRate = (doc, intervalString, aggRoot) => metric => {
   const derivativeFn = bucketTransform.derivative;
   const positiveOnlyFn = bucketTransform.positive_only;
 
-  const maxMetric = { id: `${metric.id}-max`, type: 'max', field: metric.field };
+  const maxMetric = { id: `${metric.id}-rate-max`, type: 'max', field: metric.field };
   const derivativeMetric = {
     id: `${metric.id}-rate-derivative`,
     type: 'derivative',
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ export const createRate = (doc, intervalString, aggRoot) => metric => {
   const positiveOnlyMetric = {
     id: metric.id,
     type: 'positive_only',
-    field: `${metric.id}-derivative`,
+    field: `${metric.id}-rate-derivative`,
   };
 
   const fakeSeriesMetrics = [maxMetric, derivativeMetric, positiveOnlyMetric];
diff --git a/src/plugins/vis_type_timeseries/server/lib/vis_data/request_processors/series/rate.test.js b/src/plugins/vis_type_timeseries/server/lib/vis_data/request_processors/series/rate.test.js
index aecf59383e1f89f..e09a699e7c14abb 100644
--- a/src/plugins/vis_type_timeseries/server/lib/vis_data/request_processors/series/rate.test.js
+++ b/src/plugins/vis_type_timeseries/server/lib/vis_data/request_processors/series/rate.test.js
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ describe('rate(req, panel, series)', () => {
                 },
                 'metric-1-rate-derivative': {
                   derivative: {
-                    buckets_path: 'metric-1-max',
+                    buckets_path: 'metric-1-rate-max',
                     gap_policy: 'skip',
                     unit: '1s',
                   },