diff --git a/app/models/live_metric.rb b/app/models/live_metric.rb
index 3decbdd2d81..fadf0815de1 100644
--- a/app/models/live_metric.rb
+++ b/app/models/live_metric.rb
@@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ class LiveMetric < ActsAsArModel
 
   class LiveMetricError < RuntimeError; end
 
+  # all attributes are virtual
+  # - attributes are dynamically generated and would be too much work to query/declare them all
+  # - returning true gets the column names into the REST query (via :includes)
+  def self.virtual_attribute?(_c)
+    true
+  end
+
   def self.find(*args)
     raw_query = args[1]
     validate_raw_query(raw_query)
diff --git a/app/models/miq_report/generator.rb b/app/models/miq_report/generator.rb
index d80cfebf9a0..cfcf39987d8 100644
--- a/app/models/miq_report/generator.rb
+++ b/app/models/miq_report/generator.rb
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ def include_as_hash(includes = include, klass = nil)
     if klass.nil?
       klass = db_class
       result = {}
-      cols.each { |c| result.merge!(c.to_sym => {}) if klass.virtual_attribute?(c) || klass == LiveMetric } if cols
+      cols.each { |c| result.merge!(c.to_sym => {}) if klass.virtual_attribute?(c) } if cols
     end
 
     if includes.kind_of?(Hash)