diff --git a/src/Common/CurrentMetrics.cpp b/src/Common/CurrentMetrics.cpp
index 9e5f3705dad..eeb8b4e2832 100644
--- a/src/Common/CurrentMetrics.cpp
+++ b/src/Common/CurrentMetrics.cpp
@@ -98,7 +98,6 @@
     M(CacheDetachedFileSegments, "Number of existing detached cache file segments") \
     M(FilesystemCacheSize, "Filesystem cache size in bytes") \
     M(FilesystemCacheElements, "Filesystem cache elements (file segments)") \
-    M(BackgroundLoadingMarksTasks, "Number of currently executing background marks load tasks") \
     M(S3Requests, "S3 requests") \
     M(KeeperAliveConnections, "Number of alive connections") \
     M(KeeperOutstandingRequets, "Number of outstanding requests") \
diff --git a/src/Common/ProfileEvents.cpp b/src/Common/ProfileEvents.cpp
index dd35220d945..183a06b6610 100644
--- a/src/Common/ProfileEvents.cpp
+++ b/src/Common/ProfileEvents.cpp
@@ -147,6 +147,7 @@
     M(SelectedBytes, "Number of bytes (uncompressed; for columns as they stored in memory) SELECTed from all tables.") \
     \
     M(WaitMarksLoadMicroseconds, "Time spent loading marks") \
+    M(BackgroundLoadingMarksTasks, "Number of background tasks for loading marks") \
     \
     M(Merge, "Number of launched background merges.") \
     M(MergedRows, "Rows read for background merges. This is the number of rows before merge.") \
diff --git a/src/Storages/MergeTree/MergeTreeMarksLoader.cpp b/src/Storages/MergeTree/MergeTreeMarksLoader.cpp
index 67bc5deba49..27100f8f474 100644
--- a/src/Storages/MergeTree/MergeTreeMarksLoader.cpp
+++ b/src/Storages/MergeTree/MergeTreeMarksLoader.cpp
@@ -9,14 +9,10 @@
 
 #include <utility>
 
-namespace CurrentMetrics
-{
-    extern const Metric BackgroundLoadingMarksTasks;
-}
-
 namespace ProfileEvents
 {
     extern const Event WaitMarksLoadMicroseconds;
+    extern const Event BackgroundLoadingMarksTasks;
 }
 
 namespace DB
@@ -196,7 +192,7 @@ std::future<MarkCache::MappedPtr> MergeTreeMarksLoader::loadMarksAsync()
                CurrentThread::detachQuery();
         });
 
-        CurrentMetrics::Increment metric_increment{CurrentMetrics::BackgroundLoadingMarksTasks};
+        ProfileEvents::increment(ProfileEvents::BackgroundLoadingMarksTasks);
         return loadMarks();
     });
 
diff --git a/tests/queries/0_stateless/02417_load_marks_async.sh b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02417_load_marks_async.sh
index 71d7fdfd173..310258e6b3a 100755
--- a/tests/queries/0_stateless/02417_load_marks_async.sh
+++ b/tests/queries/0_stateless/02417_load_marks_async.sh
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ function test
     else
         echo 'F'
     fi
-    result=$(${CLICKHOUSE_CLIENT} -q "WITH CurrentMetric_BackgroundLoadingMarksTasks as a SELECT count(a) FROM system.metric_log WHERE a > 0")
+    result=$(${CLICKHOUSE_CLIENT} -q "SELECT ProfileEvents['BackgroundLoadingMarksTasks'] FROM system.query_log WHERE query_id = '${QUERY_ID}' AND type = 'QueryFinish' AND current_database = currentDatabase()")
     if [[ $result -ne 0 ]]; then
         echo 'Ok'
     else