diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 10a0f39a62df..c5db81dafa2b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 - `hostmetricsreceiver`: Use cpu times for time delta in cpu.utilization calculation (#8857)
 - `dynatraceexporter`: Remove overly verbose stacktrace from certain logs (#8989)
 - `googlecloudexporter`: fix the `exporter.googlecloud.OTLPDirect` fature-gate, which was not applied when the flag was provided (#9116)
+- `windowsperfcountersreceiver`: fix exported values being integers instead of doubles (#9138)
 
 ### 🚩 Deprecations 🚩
 
diff --git a/receiver/windowsperfcountersreceiver/testdata/scraper/sum_metric.json b/receiver/windowsperfcountersreceiver/testdata/scraper/sum_metric.json
index 518db2dfa87b..28a5a81fd75f 100644
--- a/receiver/windowsperfcountersreceiver/testdata/scraper/sum_metric.json
+++ b/receiver/windowsperfcountersreceiver/testdata/scraper/sum_metric.json
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
                         "aggregationTemporality": "AGGREGATION_TEMPORALITY_CUMULATIVE",
                         "dataPoints": [
                            {
-                              "asInt": "19446169600",
+                              "asDouble": "19446169600",
                               "timeUnixNano": "1646862225775600200"
                            }
                         ]
diff --git a/receiver/windowsperfcountersreceiver/windowsperfcounters_scraper.go b/receiver/windowsperfcountersreceiver/windowsperfcounters_scraper.go
index 0390da65d91b..828986666d1a 100644
--- a/receiver/windowsperfcountersreceiver/windowsperfcounters_scraper.go
+++ b/receiver/windowsperfcountersreceiver/windowsperfcounters_scraper.go
@@ -165,15 +165,6 @@ func (s *scraper) scrape(context.Context) (pdata.Metrics, error) {
 	return md, errs
 }
 
-func initializeNumberDataPointAsDouble(dataPoint pdata.NumberDataPoint, now pdata.Timestamp, instanceLabel string, value float64) {
-	if instanceLabel != "" {
-		dataPoint.Attributes().InsertString(instanceLabelName, instanceLabel)
-	}
-
-	dataPoint.SetTimestamp(now)
-	dataPoint.SetDoubleVal(value)
-}
-
 func initializeMetricDps(metric pdata.Metric, now pdata.Timestamp, counterValues []win_perf_counters.CounterValue, attributes map[string]string) {
 	var dps pdata.NumberDataPointSlice
 
@@ -197,6 +188,6 @@ func initializeMetricDps(metric pdata.Metric, now pdata.Timestamp, counterValues
 		}
 
 		dp.SetTimestamp(now)
-		dp.SetIntVal(int64(counterValue.Value))
+		dp.SetDoubleVal(counterValue.Value)
 	}
 }