diff --git a/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/monitoring/action/MonitoringBulkResponse.java b/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/monitoring/action/MonitoringBulkResponse.java
index 88b422e109d..4a483e504b7 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/monitoring/action/MonitoringBulkResponse.java
+++ b/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/monitoring/action/MonitoringBulkResponse.java
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ public class MonitoringBulkResponse extends ActionResponse {
         @Override
         public XContentBuilder toXContent(XContentBuilder builder, Params params) throws IOException {
             builder.startObject();
-            ElasticsearchException.toXContent(builder, params, cause);
+            ElasticsearchException.generateThrowableXContent(builder, params, cause);
             builder.endObject();
             return builder;
         }
diff --git a/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/monitoring/exporter/ExportException.java b/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/monitoring/exporter/ExportException.java
index 2f062bf4c85..16b87082374 100644
--- a/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/monitoring/exporter/ExportException.java
+++ b/elasticsearch/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/xpack/monitoring/exporter/ExportException.java
@@ -61,8 +61,7 @@ public class ExportException extends ElasticsearchException implements Iterable<
     }
 
     @Override
-    protected void innerToXContent(XContentBuilder builder, Params params) throws IOException {
-        super.innerToXContent(builder, params);
+    protected void metadataToXContent(XContentBuilder builder, Params params) throws IOException {
         if (hasExportExceptions()) {
             builder.startArray("exceptions");
             for (ExportException exception : exceptions) {