diff --git a/remappers/hostmetrics/cpu.go b/remappers/hostmetrics/cpu.go
index c4be922..eba6d83 100644
--- a/remappers/hostmetrics/cpu.go
+++ b/remappers/hostmetrics/cpu.go
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
 package hostmetrics
 
 import (
-	"errors"
-
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/pcommon"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/pmetric"
 
@@ -146,7 +144,10 @@ func remapCPUMetrics(
 	)
 
 	if numCores == 0 {
-		return errors.New("system.cpu.logical.count metric is missing in the hostmetrics")
+		// system.cpu.logical.count is optional, and if it's not
+		// present we can't calculate the normalized values.
+		// This is not an error, so we just return early.
+		return nil
 	}
 
 	totalNorm := totalPercent / float64(numCores)
diff --git a/remappers/hostmetrics/hostmetrics_test.go b/remappers/hostmetrics/hostmetrics_test.go
index a400d61..ac24cb4 100644
--- a/remappers/hostmetrics/hostmetrics_test.go
+++ b/remappers/hostmetrics/hostmetrics_test.go
@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ import (
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/pcommon"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/pmetric"
+	"go.uber.org/zap"
+	"go.uber.org/zap/zapcore"
 	"go.uber.org/zap/zaptest"
+	"go.uber.org/zap/zaptest/observer"
 )
 
 var (
@@ -348,10 +351,16 @@ func doTestRemap(t *testing.T, id string, remapOpts ...Option) {
 			resource := pcommon.NewResource()
 			resource.Attributes().FromRaw(tc.resourceAttrs)
 
+			core, observedLogs := observer.New(zapcore.WarnLevel)
+			logger := zap.New(core)
+
 			actual := pmetric.NewMetricSlice()
-			r := NewRemapper(zaptest.NewLogger(t), remapOpts...)
+			r := NewRemapper(logger, remapOpts...)
 			r.Remap(sm, actual, resource)
 			assert.Empty(t, cmp.Diff(tc.expected, testutils.MetricSliceToTestMetric(t, actual), cmpopts.EquateApprox(0, 0.001)))
+
+			// There should be no warning or error logs.
+			assert.Zero(t, observedLogs.Len())
 		})
 	}
 }