diff --git a/examples/metrics_sdk/README.md b/examples/metrics_sdk/README.md
index 427a39fb24..2eb5647d7c 100644
--- a/examples/metrics_sdk/README.md
+++ b/examples/metrics_sdk/README.md
@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ receivers:
   otlp:
     protocols:
       grpc:
+        endpoint: 0.0.0.0:4317
       http:
-      # Default endpoints: 0.0.0.0:4317 for gRPC and 0.0.0.0:4318 for HTTP
+        endpoint: 0.0.0.0:4318
 
 exporters:
   debug:
diff --git a/examples/metrics_sdk/metrics_collect.rb b/examples/metrics_sdk/metrics_collect.rb
index 407932ca11..341272690e 100644
--- a/examples/metrics_sdk/metrics_collect.rb
+++ b/examples/metrics_sdk/metrics_collect.rb
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
 require 'opentelemetry/sdk'
 require 'opentelemetry-metrics-sdk'
 
+# this example manually configures the exporter, turn off automatic configuration
+ENV['OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER'] = 'none'
+
 OpenTelemetry::SDK.configure
 
 console_metric_exporter = OpenTelemetry::SDK::Metrics::Export::ConsoleMetricPullExporter.new
diff --git a/examples/metrics_sdk/metrics_collect_otlp.rb b/examples/metrics_sdk/metrics_collect_otlp.rb
index 355c42d655..d214a58461 100644
--- a/examples/metrics_sdk/metrics_collect_otlp.rb
+++ b/examples/metrics_sdk/metrics_collect_otlp.rb
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
 require 'opentelemetry-metrics-sdk'
 require 'opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-metrics'
 
+# this example manually configures the exporter, turn off automatic configuration
+ENV['OTEL_METRICS_EXPORTER'] = 'none'
+
 OpenTelemetry::SDK.configure
 
 otlp_metric_exporter = OpenTelemetry::Exporter::OTLP::Metrics::MetricsExporter.new