diff --git a/exporters/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/opentelemetry/metric/MetricConfiguration.java b/exporters/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/opentelemetry/metric/MetricConfiguration.java
index 7a7a365f..fd525c16 100644
--- a/exporters/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/opentelemetry/metric/MetricConfiguration.java
+++ b/exporters/metrics/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/opentelemetry/metric/MetricConfiguration.java
@@ -226,6 +226,18 @@ public final Builder setProjectId(String projectId) {
     /** Sets the endpoint where to write Metrics. Defaults to monitoring.googleapis.com:443. */
     public abstract Builder setMetricServiceEndpoint(String endpoint);
 
+    /**
+     * Sets the {@link MetricConfiguration} to configure the exporter to write metrics via {@link
+     * com.google.cloud.monitoring.v3.MetricServiceClient#createServiceTimeSeries(String, List)}
+     * method. By default, this is false.
+     *
+     * @param useServiceTimeSeries a boolean indicating whether to use {@link
+     *     com.google.cloud.monitoring.v3.MetricServiceClient#createServiceTimeSeries(String, List)}
+     *     method for writing metrics to Google Cloud Monitoring.
+     * @return this
+     */
+    public abstract Builder setUseServiceTimeSeries(boolean useServiceTimeSeries);
+
     /**
      * Set a filter to determine which resource attributes to add to metrics as metric labels. By
      * default, it adds service.name, service.namespace, and service.instance.id. This is
@@ -242,18 +254,6 @@ public final Builder setProjectId(String projectId) {
     @VisibleForTesting
     abstract Builder setInsecureEndpoint(boolean value);
 
-    /**
-     * Sets the {@link MetricConfiguration} to configure the exporter to write metrics via {@link
-     * com.google.cloud.monitoring.v3.MetricServiceClient#createServiceTimeSeries(String, List)}
-     * method. By default, this is false.
-     *
-     * @param useServiceTimeSeries a boolean indicating whether to use {@link
-     *     com.google.cloud.monitoring.v3.MetricServiceClient#createServiceTimeSeries(String, List)}
-     *     method for writing metrics to Google Cloud Monitoring.
-     * @return this
-     */
-    abstract Builder setUseServiceTimeSeries(boolean useServiceTimeSeries);
-
     abstract MetricConfiguration autoBuild();
 
     /**