diff --git a/pkg/custom-provider/metric_namer.go b/pkg/custom-provider/metric_namer.go
index 2c00037e..dd811e43 100644
--- a/pkg/custom-provider/metric_namer.go
+++ b/pkg/custom-provider/metric_namer.go
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ import (
 )
 
 var nsGroupResource = schema.GroupResource{Resource: "namespaces"}
+var nodeGroupResource = schema.GroupResource{Resource: "nodes"}
 var groupNameSanitizer = strings.NewReplacer(".", "_", "-", "_")
 
 // MetricNamer knows how to convert Prometheus series names and label names to
diff --git a/pkg/custom-provider/series_registry.go b/pkg/custom-provider/series_registry.go
index a4701cf4..86f28f7d 100644
--- a/pkg/custom-provider/series_registry.go
+++ b/pkg/custom-provider/series_registry.go
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ func (r *basicSeriesRegistry) SetSeries(newSeriesSlices [][]prom.Series, namers
 				}
 
 				// namespace metrics aren't counted as namespaced
-				if resource == nsGroupResource {
+				if resource == nsGroupResource || resource == nodeGroupResource {
 					info.Namespaced = false
 				}
 
diff --git a/pkg/naming/resource_converter.go b/pkg/naming/resource_converter.go
index 43a14c51..db63b763 100644
--- a/pkg/naming/resource_converter.go
+++ b/pkg/naming/resource_converter.go
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ func (r *resourceConverter) ResourcesForSeries(series prom.Series) ([]schema.Gro
 				}
 			}
 
-			if groupRes == nsGroupResource {
+			if groupRes != nsGroupResource {
 				namespaced = true
 			}
 		}