diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/it/StreamingMetricsMetadataIT.java b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/it/StreamingMetricsMetadataIT.java
index 84ab24f1c8..11da6a6c15 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/it/StreamingMetricsMetadataIT.java
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/it/StreamingMetricsMetadataIT.java
@@ -167,9 +167,9 @@ public void testFailure() {
 
     assertThat(pointData)
         .comparingElementsUsing(POINT_DATA_CLUSTER_ID_CONTAINS)
-        .contains("unspecified");
+        .contains("<unspecified>");
     assertThat(pointData).comparingElementsUsing(POINT_DATA_ZONE_ID_CONTAINS).contains("global");
-    assertThat(clusterAttributes).contains("unspecified");
+    assertThat(clusterAttributes).contains("<unspecified>");
     assertThat(zoneAttributes).contains("global");
   }
 }
diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/it/UnaryMetricsMetadataIT.java b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/it/UnaryMetricsMetadataIT.java
index 42adb8ea6e..a6e4f9e88b 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/it/UnaryMetricsMetadataIT.java
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/bigtable/data/v2/it/UnaryMetricsMetadataIT.java
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ public void testFailure() throws Exception {
 
     assertThat(pointData)
         .comparingElementsUsing(POINT_DATA_CLUSTER_ID_CONTAINS)
-        .contains("unspecified");
+        .contains("<unspecified>");
     assertThat(pointData).comparingElementsUsing(POINT_DATA_ZONE_ID_CONTAINS).contains("global");
     List<String> clusterAttributes =
         pointData.stream()
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ public void testFailure() throws Exception {
             .map(pd -> pd.getAttributes().get(BuiltinMetricsConstants.ZONE_ID_KEY))
             .collect(Collectors.toList());
 
-    assertThat(clusterAttributes).contains("unspecified");
+    assertThat(clusterAttributes).contains("<unspecified>");
     assertThat(zoneAttributes).contains("global");
   }
 }