diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index f171c6a7c..be2b01d57 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ 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 v1.0.16
-	github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.17.2
+	github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.17.3
 	github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metricsql v0.15.0
 	github.com/VividCortex/ewma v1.2.0 // indirect
 	github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go v1.38.66
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index b8adc50c2..6061636ee 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fastcache v1.6.0/go.mod h1:0qHz5QP0GMX4pfmMA/zt5RgfNu
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fasthttp v1.0.16 h1:rLonAIxZWUq0V4a1yJeuIeHZ/zSneR+gWrXF3A1xTqE=
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fasthttp v1.0.16/go.mod h1:s9o5H4T58Kt4CTrdyJp4RorBKCwY7gRVS3N2JAUJ9jw=
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.12.2/go.mod h1:Z1tSfPfngDn12bTfZSCqArT3OPY3u88J12hSoOhuiRE=
-github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.17.2 h1:9zPJ7DPfxdJWshOGLPLpAtPL0ZZ9AeUyQC3fIqG6Lvo=
-github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.17.2/go.mod h1:Z1tSfPfngDn12bTfZSCqArT3OPY3u88J12hSoOhuiRE=
+github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.17.3 h1:QPUakR6JRy8BhL2C2kOgYKLuoPDwtJQ+7iKIZSjt1A4=
+github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.17.3/go.mod h1:Z1tSfPfngDn12bTfZSCqArT3OPY3u88J12hSoOhuiRE=
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metricsql v0.15.0 h1:7tveqhA0xLumXhokcmgxiUn90VlKqiVtYZQ3p6y9Fu4=
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metricsql v0.15.0/go.mod h1:ylO7YITho/Iw6P71oEaGyHbO94bGoGtzWfLGqFhMIg8=
 github.com/VividCortex/ewma v1.1.1/go.mod h1:2Tkkvm3sRDVXaiyucHiACn4cqf7DpdyLvmxzcbUokwA=
diff --git a/vendor/github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics/validator.go b/vendor/github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics/validator.go
index 27e88ca33..9960189af 100644
--- a/vendor/github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics/validator.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics/validator.go
@@ -81,4 +81,4 @@ func validateIdent(s string) error {
 	return nil
 }
 
-var identRegexp = regexp.MustCompile("^[a-zA-Z_:][a-zA-Z0-9_:]*$")
+var identRegexp = regexp.MustCompile("^[a-zA-Z_:.][a-zA-Z0-9_:.]*$")
diff --git a/vendor/modules.txt b/vendor/modules.txt
index 9f10e5c05..0e2055427 100644
--- a/vendor/modules.txt
+++ b/vendor/modules.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fastcache
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fasthttp
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fasthttp/fasthttputil
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/fasthttp/stackless
-# github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.17.2
+# github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics v1.17.3
 ## explicit
 github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metrics
 # github.com/VictoriaMetrics/metricsql v0.15.0