diff --git a/dd-trace-core/src/main/java/datadog/trace/common/metrics/SerializingMetricWriter.java b/dd-trace-core/src/main/java/datadog/trace/common/metrics/SerializingMetricWriter.java
index 100c53dbba6..bdd4e99a178 100644
--- a/dd-trace-core/src/main/java/datadog/trace/common/metrics/SerializingMetricWriter.java
+++ b/dd-trace-core/src/main/java/datadog/trace/common/metrics/SerializingMetricWriter.java
@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@
 
 public final class SerializingMetricWriter implements MetricWriter {
 
-  private static final byte[] SEQUENCE = "Seq".getBytes(ISO_8859_1);
-  private static final byte[] RUNTIME_ID = "RuntimeId".getBytes(ISO_8859_1);
+  private static final byte[] SEQUENCE = "Sequence".getBytes(ISO_8859_1);
+  private static final byte[] RUNTIME_ID = "RuntimeID".getBytes(ISO_8859_1);
   private static final byte[] HOSTNAME = "Hostname".getBytes(ISO_8859_1);
   private static final byte[] NAME = "Name".getBytes(ISO_8859_1);
   private static final byte[] ENV = "Env".getBytes(ISO_8859_1);
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ public SerializingMetricWriter(WellKnownTags wellKnownTags, Sink sink, int initi
   public void startBucket(int metricCount, long start, long duration) {
     final UTF8BytesString processTags = ProcessTags.getTagsForSerialization();
     final boolean writeProcessTags = processTags != null;
-    writer.startMap(6 + (writeProcessTags ? 1 : 0));
+    writer.startMap(7 + (writeProcessTags ? 1 : 0));
 
     writer.writeUTF8(RUNTIME_ID);
     writer.writeUTF8(wellKnownTags.getRuntimeId());
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ public void startBucket(int metricCount, long start, long duration) {
     writer.writeUTF8(HOSTNAME);
     writer.writeUTF8(wellKnownTags.getHostname());
 
+    writer.writeUTF8(SERVICE);
+    writer.writeUTF8(wellKnownTags.getService());
+
     writer.writeUTF8(ENV);
     writer.writeUTF8(wellKnownTags.getEnv());
 
diff --git a/dd-trace-core/src/test/groovy/datadog/trace/common/metrics/SerializingMetricWriterTest.groovy b/dd-trace-core/src/test/groovy/datadog/trace/common/metrics/SerializingMetricWriterTest.groovy
index 64874c62ab7..88ef1cbc66a 100644
--- a/dd-trace-core/src/test/groovy/datadog/trace/common/metrics/SerializingMetricWriterTest.groovy
+++ b/dd-trace-core/src/test/groovy/datadog/trace/common/metrics/SerializingMetricWriterTest.groovy
@@ -125,13 +125,15 @@ class SerializingMetricWriterTest extends DDSpecification {
     void accept(int messageCount, ByteBuffer buffer) {
       MessageUnpacker unpacker = MessagePack.newDefaultUnpacker(buffer)
       int mapSize = unpacker.unpackMapHeader()
-      assert mapSize == (6 + (Config.get().isExperimentalPropagateProcessTagsEnabled() ? 1 : 0))
-      assert unpacker.unpackString() == "RuntimeId"
+      assert mapSize == (7 + (Config.get().isExperimentalPropagateProcessTagsEnabled() ? 1 : 0))
+      assert unpacker.unpackString() == "RuntimeID"
       assert unpacker.unpackString() == wellKnownTags.getRuntimeId() as String
-      assert unpacker.unpackString() == "Seq"
+      assert unpacker.unpackString() == "Sequence"
       assert unpacker.unpackLong() == 0L
       assert unpacker.unpackString() == "Hostname"
       assert unpacker.unpackString() == wellKnownTags.getHostname() as String
+      assert unpacker.unpackString() == "Service"
+      assert unpacker.unpackString() == wellKnownTags.getService() as String
       assert unpacker.unpackString() == "Env"
       assert unpacker.unpackString() == wellKnownTags.getEnv() as String
       assert unpacker.unpackString() == "Version"