diff --git a/spring-cloud-netflix-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/netflix/servo/DefaultServoMetricNaming.java b/spring-cloud-netflix-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/netflix/servo/DefaultServoMetricNaming.java
index ed53b845..0df15966 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-netflix-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/netflix/servo/DefaultServoMetricNaming.java
+++ b/spring-cloud-netflix-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/cloud/netflix/servo/DefaultServoMetricNaming.java
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ public class DefaultServoMetricNaming implements ServoMetricNaming {
 	private String handleMetric(MonitorConfig config, TagList tags) {
 		String type = cleanValue(tags.getTag(DataSourceType.KEY), false);
 		String instanceName = cleanValue(tags.getTag("instance"), false);
-		String name = cleanupIllegalCharacters(config.getName(), false);
+		String name = cleanupIllegalCharacters(config.getName(), true);
 		String statistic = cleanValue(tags.getTag("statistic"), false);
 
 		StringBuilder nameBuilder = new StringBuilder();
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ public class DefaultServoMetricNaming implements ServoMetricNaming {
 		String domain = cleanValue(tags.getTag(JMX_DOMAIN_KEY), true);
 		String type = cleanValue(tags.getTag("Jmx.type"), false);
 		String instanceName = cleanValue(tags.getTag("Jmx.instance"), false);
-		String name = cleanValue(tags.getTag("Jmx.name"), false);
+		String name = cleanValue(tags.getTag("Jmx.name"), true);
 		String fieldName = cleanupIllegalCharacters(config.getName(), false);
 
 		StringBuilder nameBuilder = new StringBuilder();
diff --git a/spring-cloud-netflix-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/netflix/servo/DefaultServerMetricNamingTests.java b/spring-cloud-netflix-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/netflix/servo/DefaultServerMetricNamingTests.java
index 16e89387..616e5ee4 100644
--- a/spring-cloud-netflix-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/netflix/servo/DefaultServerMetricNamingTests.java
+++ b/spring-cloud-netflix-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/cloud/netflix/servo/DefaultServerMetricNamingTests.java
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ public class DefaultServerMetricNamingTests {
 		assertThat(name, is(equalTo("servo.testmetric")));
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	public void nameWithPeriodWorks() {
+		MonitorConfig config = MonitorConfig.builder("test.Metric") .build();
+		String name = naming.getName(new Metric(config, System.currentTimeMillis(), 0));
+		assertThat(name, is(equalTo("servo.test.metric")));
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	public void typeTagWorks() {
 		MonitorConfig config = MonitorConfig.builder("testMetric")