diff --git a/docs/CHANGELOG.rst b/docs/CHANGELOG.rst
index d9acd6dfb..48d33eb18 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/docs/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -6,6 +6,16 @@ All notable changes to this project are documented in this file.
 This project adheres to `Semantic Versioning <http://semver.org/>`_.
 
 
+==========
+Unreleased
+==========
+
+Added
+-----
+- Allow overriding the number of max metrics points that are exported in the
+  same batch via ``METRICS_EXPORT_SIZE`` environmental variable (defaults to
+  1000)
+
 ===================
 40.2.0 - 2024-08-19
 ===================
diff --git a/resolwe/flow/managers/listener/metrics.py b/resolwe/flow/managers/listener/metrics.py
index d577a3b4d..b4d3356e2 100644
--- a/resolwe/flow/managers/listener/metrics.py
+++ b/resolwe/flow/managers/listener/metrics.py
@@ -26,6 +26,16 @@
 METRICS_EXPORT_INTERVAL = 30000
 # TODO: Remove this when metrics are properly implemented.
 METRICS_INSECURE_EXPORT = True
+# The number of data points to send in one request.
+# See
+# https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/pull/2809
+# and
+# https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python/issues/2710
+# for details.
+try:
+    METRICS_EXPORT_SIZE = int(os.environ.get("METRICS_EXPORT_SIZE", 1000))
+except ValueError:
+    METRICS_EXPORT_SIZE = 1000
 
 
 class MetricsEventReporter(MessageProcessingCallback):
@@ -60,7 +70,9 @@ def _init_metrics(self, metric_endpoint):
 
         # Initialize the opentelemetry metrics.
         metric_exporter = OTLPMetricExporter(
-            endpoint=metric_endpoint, insecure=METRICS_INSECURE_EXPORT
+            endpoint=metric_endpoint,
+            insecure=METRICS_INSECURE_EXPORT,
+            max_export_batch_size=METRICS_EXPORT_SIZE,
         )
         metric_reader = PeriodicExportingMetricReader(
             metric_exporter, METRICS_EXPORT_INTERVAL