diff --git a/hbase-hadoop2-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/lib/MutableRangeHistogram.java b/hbase-hadoop2-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/lib/MutableRangeHistogram.java
index 4c800c42eda..4b73087ed5a 100644
--- a/hbase-hadoop2-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/lib/MutableRangeHistogram.java
+++ b/hbase-hadoop2-compat/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/metrics2/lib/MutableRangeHistogram.java
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ public abstract class MutableRangeHistogram extends MutableHistogram implements
       priorRange = ranges[i];
       cumNum = val;
     }
-    long val = histogram.getCount();
+    long val = snapshot.getCount();
     if (val - cumNum > 0) {
       metricsRecordBuilder.addCounter(
           Interns.info(name + "_" + rangeType + "_" + ranges[ranges.length - 1] + "-inf", desc),