diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 7bfc697a979..1312b6f2ded 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -463,6 +463,7 @@ Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-2890  Initialize RPC JMX metrics on startup (Gary Helmling via Stack)
    HBASE-2755  Duplicate assignment of a region after region server recovery
                (Kannan Muthukkaruppan via Stack)
+   HBASE-2892  Replication metrics aren't updated
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-1760  Cleanup TODOs in HTable
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/ReplicationSinkMetrics.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/ReplicationSinkMetrics.java
index 4c3b3256969..ae14375c602 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/ReplicationSinkMetrics.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/ReplicationSinkMetrics.java
@@ -58,8 +58,6 @@ public class ReplicationSinkMetrics implements Updater {
     metricsRecord = MetricsUtil.createRecord(context, "replication");
     metricsRecord.setTag("RegionServer", name);
     context.registerUpdater(this);
-    // Add jvmmetrics.
-    JvmMetrics.init("RegionServer", name);
     // export for JMX
     new ReplicationStatistics(this.registry, "ReplicationSink");
   }
@@ -78,5 +76,6 @@ public class ReplicationSinkMetrics implements Updater {
       this.appliedBatchesRate.pushMetric(this.metricsRecord);
       this.ageOfLastAppliedOp.pushMetric(this.metricsRecord);
     }
+    this.metricsRecord.update();
   }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/ReplicationSourceMetrics.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/ReplicationSourceMetrics.java
index dca63134bf9..6c07a2f3c18 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/ReplicationSourceMetrics.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/replication/regionserver/ReplicationSourceMetrics.java
@@ -73,8 +73,6 @@ public class ReplicationSourceMetrics implements Updater {
     metricsRecord = MetricsUtil.createRecord(context, "replication");
     metricsRecord.setTag("RegionServer", name);
     context.registerUpdater(this);
-    // Add jvmmetrics.
-    JvmMetrics.init("RegionServer", name);
     // export for JMX
     new ReplicationStatistics(this.registry, "ReplicationSource for " + id);
   }
@@ -97,5 +95,6 @@ public class ReplicationSourceMetrics implements Updater {
       this.ageOfLastShippedOp.pushMetric(this.metricsRecord);
       this.sizeOfLogQueue.pushMetric(this.metricsRecord);
     }
+    this.metricsRecord.update();
   }
 }