diff --git a/monitoring/api/v3/cloud-client/quickstart.py b/monitoring/api/v3/cloud-client/quickstart.py
index c814d2f519d..a899d7615cc 100644
--- a/monitoring/api/v3/cloud-client/quickstart.py
+++ b/monitoring/api/v3/cloud-client/quickstart.py
@@ -29,9 +29,7 @@ def run_quickstart():
 
     metric = client.metric(
         type_='custom.googleapis.com/my_metric',
-        labels={
-            'status': 'successful',
-        }
+        labels={}
     )
 
     client.write_point(metric, resource, 3.14)
diff --git a/monitoring/api/v3/cloud-client/snippets.py b/monitoring/api/v3/cloud-client/snippets.py
index e44d0d017ec..55042d13901 100644
--- a/monitoring/api/v3/cloud-client/snippets.py
+++ b/monitoring/api/v3/cloud-client/snippets.py
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ def write_time_series():
     metric = client.metric(
         type_='custom.googleapis.com/my_metric',
         labels={
-            'status': 'successful',
         }
     )
     client.write_point(metric, resource, 3.14)
diff --git a/monitoring/api/v3/cloud-client/snippets_test.py b/monitoring/api/v3/cloud-client/snippets_test.py
index e9fea4d176d..f87bcd03100 100644
--- a/monitoring/api/v3/cloud-client/snippets_test.py
+++ b/monitoring/api/v3/cloud-client/snippets_test.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ def test_create_get_delete_metric_descriptor(capsys):
     snippets.create_metric_descriptor()
     snippets.get_metric_descriptor('custom.googleapis.com/my_metric')
     out, _ = capsys.readouterr()
-    assert 'a simple example' in out
+    assert "value_type='DOUBLE'" in out
     snippets.delete_metric_descriptor('custom.googleapis.com/my_metric')
     out, _ = capsys.readouterr()
     assert 'Deleted metric' in out