diff --git a/dynamometer-infra/src/main/bash/parse-metrics.sh b/dynamometer-infra/src/main/bash/parse-metrics.sh
index 360db2c32f..5457bd8fa1 100755
--- a/dynamometer-infra/src/main/bash/parse-metrics.sh
+++ b/dynamometer-infra/src/main/bash/parse-metrics.sh
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ fi
 
 read -d '' -r awk_script <<'EOF'
 BEGIN {
-    metric_regex="[[:space:]]"metric"=([[:digit:].]+)";
+    metric_regex="[[:space:]]"metric"=([[:digit:].E]+)";
     end_ts=start_ts+(period_minutes*60*1000)
     last_val=0
     last_ts=start_ts