diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index c523f489b..7bf5c2881 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ require (
 	// Do not use the original github.com/valyala/fasthttp because of issues
 	// like https://github.com/valyala/fasthttp/commit/996610f021ff45fdc98c2ce7884d5fa4e7f9199b
 	github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fasthttp v1.0.1
-	github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.12.0
+	github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.12.1
 	github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metricsql v0.2.9
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.33.9
 	github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2 v2.1.1
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 9019d63df..b6e99ca90 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -51,8 +51,8 @@ github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fasthttp v1.0.1 h1:I7YdbswTIW63WxoFoUOSNxeOEGB46rdKUL
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fasthttp v1.0.1/go.mod h1:BqgsieH90PR7x97c89j+eqZDloKkDhAEQTwhLw6jw/4=
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.11.2 h1:t/ceLP6SvagUqypCKU7cI7+tQn54+TIV/tGoxihHvx8=
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.11.2/go.mod h1:LU2j9qq7xqZYXz8tF3/RQnB2z2MbZms5TDiIg9/NHiQ=
-github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.12.0 h1:BudxtRYSA6j8H9mzjhXNEIsCPIEUPCb76QwFEptQzvQ=
-github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.12.0/go.mod h1:Z1tSfPfngDn12bTfZSCqArT3OPY3u88J12hSoOhuiRE=
+github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.12.1 h1:mmd6xo5FOmdF7U6X+huFB1O6HvjlkXsmhOIS1hF/A9g=
+github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.12.1/go.mod h1:Z1tSfPfngDn12bTfZSCqArT3OPY3u88J12hSoOhuiRE=
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metricsql v0.2.9 h1:RHLEmt4VNZ2RAqZjmXyRtKpCrtSuYUS1+TyOqfXbHWs=
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metricsql v0.2.9/go.mod h1:UIjd9S0W1UnTWlJdM0wLS+2pfuPqjwqKoK8yTos+WyE=
 github.com/allegro/bigcache v1.2.1-0.20190218064605-e24eb225f156 h1:eMwmnE/GDgah4HI848JfFxHt+iPb26b4zyfspmqY0/8=
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics/metrics.go b/vendor/github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics/metrics.go
index b11e1b06d..962ceef5b 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics/metrics.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics/metrics.go
@@ -62,3 +62,8 @@ func WriteProcessMetrics(w io.Writer) {
 	writeGoMetrics(w)
 	writeProcessMetrics(w)
 }
+
+// UnregisterMetric removes metric with the given name from default set.
+func UnregisterMetric(name string) bool {
+	return defaultSet.UnregisterMetric(name)
+}
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 46c888e71..bbe7450b6 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fastcache
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fasthttp
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fasthttp/fasthttputil
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fasthttp/stackless
-# github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.12.0
+# github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.12.1
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics
 # github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metricsql v0.2.9
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metricsql