diff --git a/iroh-docs/Cargo.toml b/iroh-docs/Cargo.toml
index bcaa820eeb..4bc74c6c44 100644
--- a/iroh-docs/Cargo.toml
+++ b/iroh-docs/Cargo.toml
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ hex = "0.4"
 iroh-base = { version = "0.20.0", path = "../iroh-base" }
 iroh-blobs = { version = "0.20.0", path = "../iroh-blobs", optional = true, features = ["downloader"] }
 iroh-gossip = { version = "0.20.0", path = "../iroh-gossip", optional = true }
-iroh-metrics = { version = "0.20.0", path = "../iroh-metrics", optional = true }
+iroh-metrics = { version = "0.20.0", path = "../iroh-metrics", default-features = false }
 iroh-net = { version = "0.20.0", optional = true, path = "../iroh-net" }
 lru = "0.12"
 num_enum = "0.7"
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ test-strategy = "0.3.1"
 [features]
 default = ["net", "metrics", "engine"]
 net = ["dep:iroh-net", "tokio/io-util", "dep:tokio-stream", "dep:tokio-util"]
-metrics = ["dep:iroh-metrics"]
+metrics = ["iroh-metrics/metrics"]
 engine = ["net", "dep:iroh-gossip", "dep:iroh-blobs"]
 
 [package.metadata.docs.rs]
diff --git a/iroh-docs/src/lib.rs b/iroh-docs/src/lib.rs
index b1347fe7be..0e84ea61f6 100644
--- a/iroh-docs/src/lib.rs
+++ b/iroh-docs/src/lib.rs
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@
 //! [paper]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13567
 #![deny(missing_docs, rustdoc::broken_intra_doc_links)]
 
-#[cfg(feature = "metrics")]
 pub mod metrics;
 #[cfg(feature = "net")]
 pub mod net;