diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 681be5ad588..a84cf590523 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1194,6 +1194,8 @@ Release 0.90.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-3273  Set the ZK default timeout to 3 minutes
    HBASE-3279  [rest] Filter for gzip content encoding that wraps both input
                and output side.
+   HBASE-3223  Get VersionInfo for Running HBase Process
+               (Nicolas Spiegelberg via Stack)
 
 
   NEW FEATURES
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/metrics/MetricsMBeanBase.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/metrics/MetricsMBeanBase.java
index 3d09f9532fa..1bcd80798a2 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/metrics/MetricsMBeanBase.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/metrics/MetricsMBeanBase.java
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ public class MetricsMBeanBase extends MetricsDynamicMBeanBase {
   private static MetricsRegistry copyMinusHBaseMetrics(final MetricsRegistry mr) {
     MetricsRegistry copy = new MetricsRegistry();
     for (MetricsBase metric : mr.getMetricsList()) {
-      if (metric instanceof org.apache.hadoop.hbase.metrics.MetricsRate) {
+      if (metric instanceof MetricsRate || metric instanceof MetricsString) {
         continue;
       }
       copy.add(metric.getName(), metric);