diff --git a/services/spelling/app/coffee/ASpellWorker.coffee b/services/spelling/app/coffee/ASpellWorker.coffee
index ca685480f2..6576cd5213 100644
--- a/services/spelling/app/coffee/ASpellWorker.coffee
+++ b/services/spelling/app/coffee/ASpellWorker.coffee
@@ -11,11 +11,11 @@ class ASpellWorker
 		@count = 0
 		@pipe = child_process.spawn("aspell", ["pipe", "-t", "--encoding=utf-8", "-d", language])
 		logger.info process: @pipe.pid, lang: @language, "starting new aspell worker"
-		metrics.inc "aspellWorker-start-" + @language
+		metrics.inc "aspellWorker-start", 1, {method: @language}
 		@pipe.on 'exit', () =>
 			@state = 'killed'
 			logger.info process: @pipe.pid, lang: @language, "aspell worker has exited"
-			metrics.inc "aspellWorker-exit-" + @language
+			metrics.inc "aspellWorker-exit" , 1, {method: @language}
 		@pipe.on 'close', () =>
 			@state = 'closed' unless @state == 'killed'
 			if @callback?
diff --git a/services/spelling/app/coffee/LearnedWordsManager.coffee b/services/spelling/app/coffee/LearnedWordsManager.coffee
index 4b772ea823..b0e0b38cc9 100644
--- a/services/spelling/app/coffee/LearnedWordsManager.coffee
+++ b/services/spelling/app/coffee/LearnedWordsManager.coffee
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ module.exports = LearnedWordsManager =
 	getLearnedWords: (user_token, callback = (error, words)->) ->
 		mongoCachedWords = mongoCache.get(user_token)
 		if mongoCachedWords?
-			metrics.inc "mongoCache-hit", 0.1
+			metrics.inc "mongoCache", 0.1, {status: "hit"}
 			return callback(null, mongoCachedWords)
 
-		metrics.inc "mongoCache-miss", 0.1
+		metrics.inc "mongoCache", 0.1, {status: "miss"}
 		logger.info user_token:user_token, "mongoCache miss"
 		
 		db.spellingPreferences.findOne token: user_token, (error, preferences) ->