diff --git a/src/main/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/GerritCloudwatchReporter.java b/src/main/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/GerritCloudwatchReporter.java
index 1e218e4..91b7f63 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/GerritCloudwatchReporter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/GerritCloudwatchReporter.java
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
 // limitations under the License.
 package com.googlesource.gerrit.plugins.metricsreportercloudwatch;
 
-import com.codahale.metrics.MetricFilter;
 import com.codahale.metrics.MetricRegistry;
 import com.google.common.flogger.FluentLogger;
 import com.google.gerrit.extensions.events.LifecycleListener;
@@ -41,7 +40,7 @@
                 registry, cloudWatchAsyncClientBuilder.build(), config.getNamespace())
             .convertRatesTo(TimeUnit.SECONDS)
             .convertDurationsTo(TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS)
-            .filter(MetricFilter.ALL)
+            .filter(config.getExclusionFilter())
             .withZeroValuesSubmission()
             .withReportRawCountValue()
             .withHighResolution();
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/GerritCloudwatchReporterConfig.java b/src/main/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/GerritCloudwatchReporterConfig.java
index 858d5d2..b5960f7 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/GerritCloudwatchReporterConfig.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/GerritCloudwatchReporterConfig.java
@@ -13,18 +13,26 @@
 // limitations under the License.
 package com.googlesource.gerrit.plugins.metricsreportercloudwatch;
 
+import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toList;
+
+import com.codahale.metrics.MetricFilter;
 import com.google.gerrit.extensions.annotations.PluginName;
 import com.google.gerrit.server.config.ConfigUtil;
 import com.google.gerrit.server.config.PluginConfig;
 import com.google.gerrit.server.config.PluginConfigFactory;
 import com.google.inject.Inject;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.List;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import java.util.function.Predicate;
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
 class GerritCloudwatchReporterConfig {
   protected static final String KEY_NAMESPACE = "namespace";
   protected static final String KEY_RATE = "rate";
   protected static final String KEY_DRYRUN = "dryRun";
   protected static final String KEY_INITIAL_DELAY = "initialDelay";
+  protected static final String KEY_EXCLUDE_METRICS = "excludeMetrics";
 
   protected static final String DEFAULT_NAMESPACE = "gerrit";
   protected static final String DEFAULT_EMPTY_STRING = "";
@@ -36,6 +44,7 @@
   private final String namespace;
   private final int initialDelay;
   private final Boolean dryRun;
+  private final MetricFilter exclusionFilter;
 
   @Inject
   public GerritCloudwatchReporterConfig(
@@ -59,6 +68,8 @@
                 pluginConfig.getString(KEY_INITIAL_DELAY, DEFAULT_EMPTY_STRING),
                 DEFAULT_INITIAL_DELAY_SECS,
                 TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+
+    this.exclusionFilter = buildExclusionFilter(pluginConfig.getStringList(KEY_EXCLUDE_METRICS));
   }
 
   public int getRate() {
@@ -76,4 +87,17 @@
   public Boolean getDryRun() {
     return dryRun;
   }
+
+  public MetricFilter getExclusionFilter() {
+    return exclusionFilter;
+  }
+
+  private MetricFilter buildExclusionFilter(String[] exclusionList) {
+    final List<Pattern> excludedMetricPatterns =
+        Arrays.stream(exclusionList).map(Pattern::compile).collect(toList());
+
+    Predicate<String> filter =
+        s -> excludedMetricPatterns.stream().anyMatch(e -> e.matcher(s).matches());
+    return (s, metric) -> !filter.test(s);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/main/resources/Documentation/config.md b/src/main/resources/Documentation/config.md
index 36d1271..2d6da8c 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/Documentation/config.md
+++ b/src/main/resources/Documentation/config.md
@@ -50,4 +50,13 @@
 execution.
     * Type: Time
     * Default: "0"
-    * Example: 60 seconds
\ No newline at end of file
+    * Example: 60 seconds
+
+* `plugin.@PLUGIN@.excludeMetrics` (Optional): Regex pattern used to exclude
+metrics from the report. It can be specified multiple times.
+Note that pattern matching is done on the whole metric name, not only on a part of it.
+    * Type: String
+    * Example: "plugins.*"
+
+In case of invalid pattern, the plugin will fail to load and the relevant error will
+be logged in the _error_log_ file.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/GerritCloudwatchReporterConfigTest.java b/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/GerritCloudwatchReporterConfigTest.java
index 0a6be81..dbaf40d 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/GerritCloudwatchReporterConfigTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/GerritCloudwatchReporterConfigTest.java
@@ -14,10 +14,15 @@
 package com.googlesource.gerrit.plugins.metricsreportercloudwatch;
 
 import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;
+import static com.google.gerrit.testing.GerritJUnit.assertThrows;
 import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
 
+import com.codahale.metrics.Counter;
+import com.codahale.metrics.MetricFilter;
 import com.google.gerrit.server.config.PluginConfig;
 import com.google.gerrit.server.config.PluginConfigFactory;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException;
 import org.eclipse.jgit.lib.Config;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
@@ -64,4 +69,35 @@
     assertThat(reporterConfig.getRate()).isEqualTo(180);
     assertThat(reporterConfig.getDryRun()).isTrue();
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void shouldReadCorrectExclusionFilter() {
+    PluginConfig globalPluginConfig = emptyGlobalPluginConfig;
+    globalPluginConfig.setStringList(
+        GerritCloudwatchReporterConfig.KEY_EXCLUDE_METRICS, Arrays.asList("foo.*", ".*bar"));
+
+    when(configFactory.getFromGerritConfig(PLUGIN_NAME)).thenReturn(globalPluginConfig);
+    reporterConfig = new GerritCloudwatchReporterConfig(configFactory, PLUGIN_NAME);
+
+    MetricFilter exclusionFilter = reporterConfig.getExclusionFilter();
+    assertThat(exclusionFilter.matches("foo/metrics/for/testing", new Counter())).isFalse();
+    assertThat(exclusionFilter.matches("some/metrics/for/bar", new Counter())).isFalse();
+    assertThat(exclusionFilter.matches("any/other/metric", new Counter())).isTrue();
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void shouldThrowAnExceptionWhenExcludeMetricsRegexIsNotValid() {
+    final String INVALID_REGEXP = "[[?";
+    PluginConfig globalPluginConfig = emptyGlobalPluginConfig;
+    globalPluginConfig.setString(
+        GerritCloudwatchReporterConfig.KEY_EXCLUDE_METRICS, INVALID_REGEXP);
+
+    when(configFactory.getFromGerritConfig(PLUGIN_NAME)).thenReturn(globalPluginConfig);
+
+    assertThrows(
+        PatternSyntaxException.class,
+        () -> {
+          new GerritCloudwatchReporterConfig(configFactory, PLUGIN_NAME);
+        });
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/MetricsReporterCloudwatchIT.java b/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/MetricsReporterCloudwatchIT.java
index 61066cf..463d05f 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/MetricsReporterCloudwatchIT.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/googlesource/gerrit/plugins/metricsreportercloudwatch/MetricsReporterCloudwatchIT.java
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 
 package com.googlesource.gerrit.plugins.metricsreportercloudwatch;
 
+import static com.google.gerrit.testing.GerritJUnit.assertThrows;
 import static java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS;
 
 import com.google.common.base.Splitter;
@@ -85,6 +86,26 @@
                 .anyMatch(l -> l.contains("Value=" + TEST_METRIC_INCREMENT)));
   }
 
+  @Test
+  @GerritConfig(name = "plugin.metrics-reporter-cloudwatch.dryrun", value = "true")
+  @GerritConfig(
+      name = "plugin.metrics-reporter-cloudwatch.excludeMetrics",
+      value = TEST_METRIC_NAME)
+  @GerritConfig(name = "plugin.metrics-reporter-cloudwatch.rate", value = TEST_TIMEOUT)
+  public void shouldExcludeMetrics() {
+    InMemoryLoggerAppender dryRunMetricsOutput = newInMemoryLogger();
+
+    assertThrows(
+        InterruptedException.class,
+        () -> {
+          waitUntil(
+              () ->
+                  dryRunMetricsOutput
+                      .metricsStream()
+                      .anyMatch(l -> l.contains("MetricName=" + TEST_METRIC_NAME)));
+        });
+  }
+
   private static InMemoryLoggerAppender newInMemoryLogger() {
     InMemoryLoggerAppender dryRunMetricsOutput = new InMemoryLoggerAppender();
     for (Enumeration<?> logger = LogManager.getCurrentLoggers(); logger.hasMoreElements(); ) {