diff --git a/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/README.md b/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/README.md
index 0ac449a32f7a..990db96864db 100644
--- a/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/README.md
+++ b/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/README.md
@@ -229,6 +229,10 @@ The metric descriptions will remain undefined, unless they are provided by the q
 ### State Metrics
 
 Some JMX attributes expose current state as a non-numeric MBean attribute, in order to capture those as metrics it is recommended to use the special `state` metric type.
+
+This type of metric fits the [semantic conventions recommendations for state metric](https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/blob/main/docs/how-to-write-conventions/status-metrics.md),
+using the `.status` suffix is compliant with the [naming recommendations](https://github.com/open-telemetry/semantic-conventions/blob/main/docs/how-to-write-conventions/status-metrics.md#naming).
+
 For example, with Tomcat connector, the `Catalina:type=Connector,port=*` MBean has `stateName` (of type `String`), we can define the following rule:
 
 ```yaml
@@ -238,7 +242,7 @@ rules:
     mapping:
       stateName:
         type: state
-        metric: tomcat.connector
+        metric: tomcat.connector.status
         metricAttribute:
           port: param(port)
           connector_state:
@@ -247,26 +251,26 @@ rules:
             degraded: '*'
 ```
 
-For a given value of `port`, let's say `8080` This will capture the `tomcat.connector.state` metric of type `updowncounter` with value `0` or `1` and the `state` metric attribute will have a value in [`ok`,`failed`,`degraded`].
-For every sample, 3 metrics will be captured for each value of `state` depending on the value of `stateName`:
+For a given value of `port`, let's say `8080` This will capture the `tomcat.connector.status` metric of type `updowncounter` with value `0` or `1` and the `connector_state` metric attribute will have a value in [`ok`,`failed`,`degraded`].
+For every sample, 3 metrics will be captured for each value of `connector_state` depending on the value of `stateName`:
 
 When `stateName` = `STARTED`, we have:
 
-- `tomcat.connector` value = `1`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `ok`
-- `tomcat.connector` value = `0`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `failed`
-- `tomcat.connector` value = `0`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `degraded`
+- `tomcat.connector.status` value = `1`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `ok`
+- `tomcat.connector.status` value = `0`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `failed`
+- `tomcat.connector.status` value = `0`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `degraded`
 
 When `stateName` = `STOPPED` or `FAILED`, we have:
 
-- `tomcat.connector` value = `0`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `ok`
-- `tomcat.connector` value = `1`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `failed`
-- `tomcat.connector` value = `0`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `degraded`
+- `tomcat.connector.status` value = `0`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `ok`
+- `tomcat.connector.status` value = `1`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `failed`
+- `tomcat.connector.status` value = `0`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `degraded`
 
 For other values of `stateName`, we have:
 
-- `tomcat.connector` value = `0`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `ok`
-- `tomcat.connector` value = `0`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `failed`
-- `tomcat.connector` value = `1`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `degraded`
+- `tomcat.connector.status` value = `0`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `ok`
+- `tomcat.connector.status` value = `0`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `failed`
+- `tomcat.connector.status` value = `1`, attributes `port` = `8080` and `connector_state` = `degraded`
 
 Each state key can be mapped to one or more values of the MBean attribute using:
 - a string literal or a string array
diff --git a/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/jmx/yaml/JmxRule.java b/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/jmx/yaml/JmxRule.java
index 8b42d7c9f508..458b1e1e69d6 100644
--- a/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/jmx/yaml/JmxRule.java
+++ b/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/library/src/main/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/jmx/yaml/JmxRule.java
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ private static List<MetricExtractor> createStateMappingExtractors(
               metricInfo.getMetricName(),
               metricInfo.getDescription(),
               null,
-              "",
+              "1",
               MetricInfo.Type.UPDOWNCOUNTER);
 
       extractors.add(new MetricExtractor(extractor, stateMetricInfo, stateMetricAttributes));
diff --git a/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/library/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/jmx/engine/RuleParserTest.java b/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/library/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/jmx/engine/RuleParserTest.java
index 726aa82520ca..5e567b9bd328 100644
--- a/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/library/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/jmx/engine/RuleParserTest.java
+++ b/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/library/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/jmx/engine/RuleParserTest.java
@@ -453,8 +453,8 @@ void testStateMetricConf() throws Exception {
               assertThat(me.getInfo().getMetricName()).isEqualTo("state_metric");
               assertThat(me.getInfo().getType()).isEqualTo(MetricInfo.Type.UPDOWNCOUNTER);
               assertThat(me.getInfo().getUnit())
-                  .describedAs("state metric unit should be an empty string")
-                  .isEmpty();
+                  .describedAs("state metric unit should be 1")
+                  .isEqualTo("1");
 
               assertThat(me.getAttributes()).hasSize(1);
               MetricAttribute stateAttribute = me.getAttributes().get(0);
diff --git a/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/library/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/jmx/yaml/MetricStructureTest.java b/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/library/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/jmx/yaml/MetricStructureTest.java
index fa37327b8189..9796b5e1396a 100644
--- a/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/library/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/jmx/yaml/MetricStructureTest.java
+++ b/instrumentation/jmx-metrics/library/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/instrumentation/jmx/yaml/MetricStructureTest.java
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ void metricAttribute_beanParam(String target, String value, String expectedValue
         "param()", // missing parameter
         "param( )", // missing parameter with empty string
         "param(name)a", // something after parenthesis
-        "lowercase()", // misng target in modifier
+        "lowercase()", // missing target in modifier
         "lowercase(param(name)", // missing parenthesis for modifier
         "lowercase(missing(name))", // non-existing target within modifier
         "lowercase(param())", // missing parameter in modifier