diff --git a/exporter/util.go b/exporter/util.go
index 2bb42f4e..32571a56 100644
--- a/exporter/util.go
+++ b/exporter/util.go
@@ -79,8 +79,11 @@ func SanitizeHexIntValue(s string) (int64, error) {
 	var value int64
 	var resultErr string
 
-	// Check if value is an hex integer, e.g. 0x1d54c54 => 30755924
-	if value, err = strconv.ParseInt(s, 16, 64); err == nil {
+ 	// remove 0x suffix if found in the input string
+ 	cleaned := strings.Replace(s, "0x", "", -1)
+	cleaned = strings.Replace(cleaned, "\"", "", -1)
+
+	if value, err = strconv.ParseInt(cleaned, 16, 64); err == nil {
 		return value, nil
 	}
 	resultErr = fmt.Sprintf("%s", err)
diff --git a/exporter/util_test.go b/exporter/util_test.go
index 90392849..3688d193 100644
--- a/exporter/util_test.go
+++ b/exporter/util_test.go
@@ -48,6 +48,27 @@ func TestSanitizeValue(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestSanitizeValueHex(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		Input          string
+		ExpectedOutput int64
+		ShouldSucceed  bool
+	}{
+		{"0x1d55195", 30757269, true},
+		{"\"0x1d55195\"", 30757269, true},
+	}
+
+	for i, test := range tests {
+		actualOutput, err := SanitizeHexIntValue(test.Input)
+		if err != nil && test.ShouldSucceed {
+			t.Fatalf("Value snitization test %d failed with an unexpected error.\nINPUT:\n%q\nERR:\n%s", i, test.Input, err)
+		}
+		if test.ShouldSucceed && actualOutput != test.ExpectedOutput {
+			t.Fatalf("Value sanitization test %d fails unexpectedly.\nGOT:\n%d\nEXPECTED:\n%d", i, actualOutput, test.ExpectedOutput)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
 func TestSanitizeValueNaN(t *testing.T) {
 	actualOutput, err := SanitizeValue("<nil>")
 	if err != nil {