diff --git a/cms/envs/common.py b/cms/envs/common.py
index a9d45cadaa..820577fd23 100644
--- a/cms/envs/common.py
+++ b/cms/envs/common.py
@@ -661,7 +661,7 @@ MIDDLEWARE = [
     'edx_django_utils.monitoring.middleware.MonitoringMemoryMiddleware',
 
     # Cookie monitoring
-    'openedx.core.lib.request_utils.CookieMetricsMiddleware',
+    'openedx.core.lib.request_utils.CookingMonitoringMiddleware',
 
     'openedx.core.djangoapps.header_control.middleware.HeaderControlMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.cache.UpdateCacheMiddleware',
diff --git a/lms/envs/common.py b/lms/envs/common.py
index 5f2d723cc2..2cf7d17590 100644
--- a/lms/envs/common.py
+++ b/lms/envs/common.py
@@ -1683,7 +1683,7 @@ MIDDLEWARE = [
     'edx_django_utils.monitoring.code_owner.middleware.CodeOwnerMonitoringMiddleware',
 
     # Cookie monitoring
-    'openedx.core.lib.request_utils.CookieMetricsMiddleware',
+    'openedx.core.lib.request_utils.CookingMonitoringMiddleware',
 
     'mobile_api.middleware.AppVersionUpgrade',
     'openedx.core.djangoapps.header_control.middleware.HeaderControlMiddleware',
diff --git a/openedx/core/lib/request_utils.py b/openedx/core/lib/request_utils.py
index 4be90f16a3..471ee05883 100644
--- a/openedx/core/lib/request_utils.py
+++ b/openedx/core/lib/request_utils.py
@@ -95,14 +95,14 @@ def course_id_from_url(url):
         return None
 
 
-class CookieMetricsMiddleware(MiddlewareMixin):
+class CookingMonitoringMiddleware(MiddlewareMixin):
     """
     Middleware for monitoring the size and growth of all our cookies, to see if
     we're running into browser limits.
     """
     def process_request(self, request):
         """
-        Emit custom metrics for cookie size values for every cookie we have.
+        Emit custom attributes for cookie size values for every cookie we have.
 
         Don't log contents of cookies because that might cause a security issue.
         We just want to see if any cookies are growing out of control.
@@ -118,9 +118,9 @@ class CookieMetricsMiddleware(MiddlewareMixin):
             for name, value in request.COOKIES.items()
         }
         for name, size in cookie_names_to_size.items():
-            metric_name = 'cookies.{}.size'.format(name)
-            newrelic.agent.add_custom_parameter(metric_name, size)
-            log.debug(u'%s = %d', metric_name, size)
+            attribute_name = 'cookies.{}.size'.format(name)
+            newrelic.agent.add_custom_parameter(attribute_name, size)
+            log.debug(u'%s = %d', attribute_name, size)
 
         total_cookie_size = sum(cookie_names_to_size.values())
         newrelic.agent.add_custom_parameter('cookies_total_size', total_cookie_size)