diff --git a/docker/telemetry/alloy/config.alloy b/docker/telemetry/alloy/config.alloy
index 163e1f9f19..278f866835 100644
--- a/docker/telemetry/alloy/config.alloy
+++ b/docker/telemetry/alloy/config.alloy
@@ -349,7 +349,6 @@ otelcol.connector.spanmetrics "xrpld" {
 
   // Overlay / peer dimensions.
   dimension { name = "local" }
-  dimension { name = "suppressed" }
   dimension { name = "proposal_trusted" }
   dimension { name = "validation_trusted" }
 
diff --git a/docker/telemetry/grafana/dashboards/transaction-overview.json b/docker/telemetry/grafana/dashboards/transaction-overview.json
index c637f172e6..71e8d79ca8 100644
--- a/docker/telemetry/grafana/dashboards/transaction-overview.json
+++ b/docker/telemetry/grafana/dashboards/transaction-overview.json
@@ -273,8 +273,8 @@
       "id": 5
     },
     {
-      "title": "Transaction Receive vs Suppressed",
-      "description": "###### What this is:\n*Raw transactions received from peers, split by whether they were duplicates suppressed before processing.*\n\n###### How it's computed:\n*Per-second rate of received transactions over the window, split by suppressed flag and node.*\n\n###### Reading it:\n*A large suppressed share is normal, since the same transaction arrives from many peers.*\n\n###### Healthy range:\n*Workload-dependent; suppressed typically exceeds newly processed.*\n\n###### Watch for:\n*A collapse in suppression (duplicate filtering failing) or an overall receive flood.*\n\n###### Keywords:\n- **Transaction suppression** *(per node)* \u2014 dropping a transaction already seen from another peer, so it is not reprocessed.\n\n###### Computation boundary:\n*Result: Per node \u2014 each series is one server's own value.*\n*Recorded in code as a trace span, turned into a metric by the collector (SpanMetrics connector), then aggregated by the Grafana query.*\n\n###### Source:\n[PeerImp.cpp](https://github.com/XRPLF/rippled/blob/develop/src/xrpld/overlay/detail/PeerImp.cpp)\n\n###### Function:\n`PeerImp::handleTransaction`\n\n###### References:\n[Telemetry glossary](https://github.com/XRPLF/rippled/blob/develop/docs/telemetry-glossary.md#transaction-suppression)",
+      "title": "Transaction Receive Rate",
+      "description": "###### What this is:\n*Transactions received from peers that this node went on to process.*\n\n###### How it's computed:\n*Per-second rate of the tx.receive span over the window, per node.*\n\n###### Reading it:\n*Tracks the useful inbound transaction load. Copies dropped as duplicates are not counted, because the span starts after the duplicate check.*\n\n###### Healthy range:\n*Workload-dependent.*\n\n###### Watch for:\n*A fall to zero while peers are connected, meaning inbound relay has stopped.*\n\n###### Keywords:\n- **Transaction suppression** *(per node)* \u2014 dropping a transaction already seen from another peer. Suppressed copies are excluded from this panel; their volume is the transactions_duplicate traffic category.\n\n###### Computation boundary:\n*Result: Per node \u2014 each series is one server's own value.*\n*Recorded in code as a trace span, turned into a metric by the collector (SpanMetrics connector), then aggregated by the Grafana query.*\n\n###### Source:\n[PeerImp.cpp](https://github.com/XRPLF/rippled/blob/develop/src/xrpld/overlay/detail/PeerImp.cpp)\n\n###### Function:\n`PeerImp::handleTransaction`\n\n###### References:\n[Telemetry glossary](https://github.com/XRPLF/rippled/blob/develop/docs/telemetry-glossary.md#transaction-suppression)",
       "type": "timeseries",
       "gridPos": {
         "h": 10,
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@
             "type": "prometheus",
             "uid": "${DS_PROMETHEUS}"
           },
-          "expr": "label_replace(label_join(label_replace(sum by (suppressed, service_instance_id, xrpl_branch, xrpl_node_role, xrpl_work_item) (rate(span_calls_total{span_name=\"tx.receive\", tx_type=~\"$tx_type\", service_instance_id=~\"$node\", deployment_environment=~\"$deployment_environment\", xrpl_network_type=~\"$xrpl_network_type\", service_name=~\"$service_name\", xrpl_work_item=~\"$xrpl_work_item\", xrpl_branch=~\"$xrpl_branch\", xrpl_node_role=~\"$xrpl_node_role\"}[$__rate_interval])), \"series\", \"Suppressed $1\", \"suppressed\", \"(.*)\"), \"xrpl_ident\", \", \", \"service_instance_id\", \"xrpl_branch\", \"xrpl_work_item\"), \"xrpl_ident\", \"[$1]\", \"xrpl_ident\", \"(?:, )*(.*[^, ])(?:, )*\")"
+          "expr": "label_replace(label_join(label_replace(sum by (service_instance_id, xrpl_branch, xrpl_node_role, xrpl_work_item) (rate(span_calls_total{span_name=\"tx.receive\", tx_type=~\"$tx_type\", service_instance_id=~\"$node\", deployment_environment=~\"$deployment_environment\", xrpl_network_type=~\"$xrpl_network_type\", service_name=~\"$service_name\", xrpl_work_item=~\"$xrpl_work_item\", xrpl_branch=~\"$xrpl_branch\", xrpl_node_role=~\"$xrpl_node_role\"}[$__rate_interval])), \"series\", \"Received / Sec\", \"\", \"\"), \"xrpl_ident\", \", \", \"service_instance_id\", \"xrpl_branch\", \"xrpl_work_item\"), \"xrpl_ident\", \"[$1]\", \"xrpl_ident\", \"(?:, )*(.*[^, ])(?:, )*\")"
         }
       ],
       "fieldConfig": {
diff --git a/docker/telemetry/grafana/provisioning/datasources/tempo.yaml b/docker/telemetry/grafana/provisioning/datasources/tempo.yaml
index f89fa89eec..3b9862f722 100644
--- a/docker/telemetry/grafana/provisioning/datasources/tempo.yaml
+++ b/docker/telemetry/grafana/provisioning/datasources/tempo.yaml
@@ -206,11 +206,6 @@ datasources:
             operator: "="
             scope: span
             type: dynamic
-          - id: tx-suppressed
-            tag: suppressed
-            operator: "="
-            scope: span
-            type: dynamic
           - id: peer-version
             tag: peer_version
             operator: "="
diff --git a/docker/telemetry/otel-collector-config.grafanacloud.yaml b/docker/telemetry/otel-collector-config.grafanacloud.yaml
index 4f5c1b56e7..6ebdc81610 100644
--- a/docker/telemetry/otel-collector-config.grafanacloud.yaml
+++ b/docker/telemetry/otel-collector-config.grafanacloud.yaml
@@ -232,7 +232,6 @@ connectors:
       - name: close_time_correct
       - name: consensus_state
       - name: local
-      - name: suppressed
       - name: proposal_trusted
       - name: validation_trusted
       - name: tx_type
diff --git a/docker/telemetry/otel-collector-config.yaml b/docker/telemetry/otel-collector-config.yaml
index 3fdb624e6c..cb6b580aff 100644
--- a/docker/telemetry/otel-collector-config.yaml
+++ b/docker/telemetry/otel-collector-config.yaml
@@ -214,7 +214,6 @@ connectors:
       - name: close_time_correct
       - name: consensus_state
       - name: local
-      - name: suppressed
       - name: proposal_trusted
       - name: validation_trusted
       - name: tx_type
diff --git a/docker/telemetry/workload/expected_metrics.json b/docker/telemetry/workload/expected_metrics.json
index aee41551e7..f4ce67b285 100644
--- a/docker/telemetry/workload/expected_metrics.json
+++ b/docker/telemetry/workload/expected_metrics.json
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@
       "stage",
       "txq_status",
       "close_time_correct",
-      "consensus_state",
-      "suppressed"
+      "consensus_state"
     ],
     "_dimension_labels_note": "Bare label names as configured in otel-collector-config.yaml spanmetrics dimensions. Informational only (not asserted by the validator)."
   },
diff --git a/docs/telemetry-runbook.md b/docs/telemetry-runbook.md
index 5e7f60f13b..cdbe3f498e 100644
--- a/docs/telemetry-runbook.md
+++ b/docs/telemetry-runbook.md
@@ -274,14 +274,14 @@ this span: count successes as total minus error, or filter on `status_code`.
 
 ### Transaction Spans
 
-| Span Name       | Source File     | Attributes                                                                                              | Description                           |
-| --------------- | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- |
-| `tx.process`    | NetworkOPs.cpp  | `tx_hash`, `local`, `path`, `tx_type`, `fee`, `sequence`, `ter_result`, `applied`, `current_ledger_seq` | Transaction submission and processing |
-| `tx.receive`    | PeerImp.cpp     | `peer_id`, `tx_hash`, `tx_type`, `peer_version`, `suppressed`, `tx_status`, `current_ledger_seq`        | Transaction received from peer relay  |
-| `tx.apply`      | BuildLedger.cpp | `tx_count`, `tx_failed`                                                                                 | Transaction set applied per ledger    |
-| `tx.preflight`  | applySteps.cpp  | `stage`, `tx_type`, `ter_result`                                                                        | Stateless checks stage                |
-| `tx.preclaim`   | applySteps.cpp  | `stage`, `tx_type`, `ter_result`, `current_ledger_seq`, `current_ledger_hash`                           | Ledger-aware checks stage             |
-| `tx.transactor` | Transactor.cpp  | `stage`, `tx_type`, `ter_result`, `applied`, `current_ledger_seq`, `current_ledger_hash`                | Apply stage (transactor runs)         |
+| Span Name       | Source File     | Attributes                                                                                              | Description                                                  |
+| --------------- | --------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| `tx.process`    | NetworkOPs.cpp  | `tx_hash`, `local`, `path`, `tx_type`, `fee`, `sequence`, `ter_result`, `applied`, `current_ledger_seq` | Transaction submission and processing                        |
+| `tx.receive`    | PeerImp.cpp     | `peer_id`, `tx_hash`, `tx_type`, `peer_version`, `tx_status`, `current_ledger_seq`                      | Transaction this node will process, received from peer relay |
+| `tx.apply`      | BuildLedger.cpp | `tx_count`, `tx_failed`                                                                                 | Transaction set applied per ledger                           |
+| `tx.preflight`  | applySteps.cpp  | `stage`, `tx_type`, `ter_result`                                                                        | Stateless checks stage                                       |
+| `tx.preclaim`   | applySteps.cpp  | `stage`, `tx_type`, `ter_result`, `current_ledger_seq`, `current_ledger_hash`                           | Ledger-aware checks stage                                    |
+| `tx.transactor` | Transactor.cpp  | `stage`, `tx_type`, `ter_result`, `applied`, `current_ledger_seq`, `current_ledger_hash`                | Apply stage (transactor runs)                                |
 
 The three apply-pipeline spans (`tx.preflight`, `tx.preclaim`, `tx.transactor`)
 share a deterministic `trace_id` from `txID[0:16]`, so they group under one
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ flowchart TB
     RELAYOUT(["Overlay::relay fan-out to N peers<br/>(no span; if applied / terQUEUED,<br/>shouldRelay, not tfInnerBatchTxn)"]):::plain
     PREDROP(["Diverged / needNetworkLedger<br/>(no span — dropped before tx.receive)"]):::drop
     RCV["tx.receive<br/>(peer TMTransaction in)"]:::span
-    RCVDROP["tx.receive<br/>tx_status = rejected_inner_batch /<br/>suppressed / dropped_no_sync /<br/>dropped_queue_full"]:::drop
+    RCVDROP["tx.receive<br/>tx_status = dropped_no_sync /<br/>dropped_queue_full"]:::drop
     CHK(["checkTransaction<br/>(JtTransaction worker, no span)"]):::plain
     PRELAY_IN(["TMTransaction in (no span)"]):::plain