diff --git a/runners/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/flink/metrics/FlinkMetricContainer.java b/runners/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/flink/metrics/FlinkMetricContainer.java
index 7aa4ba784cc7..3f4d9617bdd2 100644
--- a/runners/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/flink/metrics/FlinkMetricContainer.java
+++ b/runners/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/flink/metrics/FlinkMetricContainer.java
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 import org.apache.beam.runners.core.metrics.MetricsContainerStepMap;
 import org.apache.flink.api.common.accumulators.Accumulator;
 import org.apache.flink.api.common.functions.RuntimeContext;
-import org.apache.flink.metrics.MetricGroup;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -41,6 +40,7 @@ public class FlinkMetricContainer extends FlinkMetricContainerBase {
   private final RuntimeContext runtimeContext;
 
   public FlinkMetricContainer(RuntimeContext runtimeContext) {
+    super(runtimeContext.getMetricGroup());
     this.runtimeContext = runtimeContext;
   }
 
@@ -65,8 +65,4 @@ public void registerMetricsForPipelineResult() {
     metricsAccumulator.add(metricsContainers);
   }
 
-  @Override
-  protected MetricGroup getMetricGroup() {
-    return runtimeContext.getMetricGroup();
-  }
 }
diff --git a/runners/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/flink/metrics/FlinkMetricContainerBase.java b/runners/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/flink/metrics/FlinkMetricContainerBase.java
index 3a430bd6e368..a4a363689329 100644
--- a/runners/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/flink/metrics/FlinkMetricContainerBase.java
+++ b/runners/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/flink/metrics/FlinkMetricContainerBase.java
@@ -56,15 +56,19 @@ abstract class FlinkMetricContainerBase {
   private final Map<String, Counter> flinkCounterCache;
   private final Map<String, FlinkDistributionGauge> flinkDistributionGaugeCache;
   private final Map<String, FlinkGauge> flinkGaugeCache;
+  private final MetricGroup metricGroup;
 
-  public FlinkMetricContainerBase() {
+  public FlinkMetricContainerBase(MetricGroup metricGroup) {
     this.flinkCounterCache = new HashMap<>();
     this.flinkDistributionGaugeCache = new HashMap<>();
     this.flinkGaugeCache = new HashMap<>();
     this.metricsContainers = new MetricsContainerStepMap();
+    this.metricGroup = metricGroup;
   }
 
-  protected abstract MetricGroup getMetricGroup();
+  public MetricGroup getMetricGroup() {
+    return metricGroup;
+  }
 
   public MetricsContainerImpl getMetricsContainer(String stepName) {
     return metricsContainers.getContainer(stepName);
diff --git a/runners/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/flink/metrics/FlinkMetricContainerWithoutAccumulator.java b/runners/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/flink/metrics/FlinkMetricContainerWithoutAccumulator.java
index 00b1ea052e50..88d52273108a 100644
--- a/runners/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/flink/metrics/FlinkMetricContainerWithoutAccumulator.java
+++ b/runners/flink/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/flink/metrics/FlinkMetricContainerWithoutAccumulator.java
@@ -28,14 +28,7 @@
  * @see FlinkMetricContainer
  */
 public class FlinkMetricContainerWithoutAccumulator extends FlinkMetricContainerBase {
-  private final MetricGroup metricGroup;
-
   public FlinkMetricContainerWithoutAccumulator(MetricGroup metricGroup) {
-    this.metricGroup = metricGroup;
-  }
-
-  @Override
-  protected MetricGroup getMetricGroup() {
-    return metricGroup;
+    super(metricGroup);
   }
 }