diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index e10e9487ac6..af4b5991933 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -539,6 +539,7 @@ Release 0.21.0 - Unreleased
    HBASE-3002  Fix zookeepers.sh to work properly with strange JVM options
    HBASE-3028  No basescanner means no GC'ing of split, offlined parent regions
    HBASE-2989  [replication] RSM won't cleanup after locking if 0 peers
+   HBASE-2992  [replication] MalformedObjectNameException in ReplicationMetrics
 
   IMPROVEMENTS
    HBASE-1760  Cleanup TODOs in HTable
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 6c07a2f3c18..c90eb222814 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
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 package org.apache.hadoop.hbase.replication.regionserver;
+import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
+import java.net.URLEncoder;
+
 import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.metrics.MetricsRate;
 import org.apache.hadoop.metrics.MetricsContext;
 import org.apache.hadoop.metrics.MetricsRecord;
@@ -73,6 +76,11 @@ public class ReplicationSourceMetrics implements Updater {
     metricsRecord = MetricsUtil.createRecord(context, "replication");
     metricsRecord.setTag("RegionServer", name);
     context.registerUpdater(this);
+    try {
+      id = URLEncoder.encode(id, "UTF8");
+    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+      id = "CAN'T ENCODE UTF8";
+    }
     // export for JMX
     new ReplicationStatistics(this.registry, "ReplicationSource for " + id);
   }