diff --git a/src/collectors/ceph/ceph.py b/src/collectors/ceph/ceph.py
index b1e38f875..9bbcdd91b 100644
--- a/src/collectors/ceph/ceph.py
+++ b/src/collectors/ceph/ceph.py
@@ -302,7 +302,9 @@ def _publish_stats(self, counter_prefix, stats, schema, name_class):
         """
         for path, stat_type in flatten_dictionary(schema):
             # remove 'stat_type' component to get metric name
-            assert path[-1] == 'type'
+            if path[-1] != 'type':
+                continue
+
             del path[-1]
 
             if stat_type & _PERFCOUNTER_LONGRUNAVG: