diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index c84792a1e..9d057a3bc 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 ## Master / unreleased
 
+## 0.9.1
+
+ - [CHANGE] LiveReader metrics are now injected rather than global.
+
 ## 0.9.0
 
  - [FEATURE] Provide option to compress WAL records using Snappy. [#609](https://github.com/prometheus/tsdb/pull/609)
@@ -9,7 +13,7 @@
  - [BUGFIX] `prometheus_tsdb_compactions_failed_total` is now incremented on any compaction failure.
  - [CHANGE] The meta file `BlockStats` no longer holds size information. This is now dynamically calculated and kept in memory. It also includes the meta file size which was not included before.
  - [CHANGE] Create new clean segment when starting the WAL.
- - [CHANGE] Renamed metric from `prometheus_tsdb_wal_reader_corruption_errors` to `prometheus_tsdb_wal_reader_corruption_errors_total`
+ - [CHANGE] Renamed metric from `prometheus_tsdb_wal_reader_corruption_errors` to `prometheus_tsdb_wal_reader_corruption_errors_total`.
  - [ENHANCEMENT] Improved atomicity of .tmp block replacement during compaction for usual case.
  - [ENHANCEMENT] Improved postings intersection matching.
  - [ENHANCEMENT] Reduced disk usage for WAL for small setups.
diff --git a/wal/live_reader.go b/wal/live_reader.go
index fb0485230..94175e791 100644
--- a/wal/live_reader.go
+++ b/wal/live_reader.go
@@ -27,26 +27,40 @@ import (
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
 )
 
+// liveReaderMetrics holds all metrics exposed by the LiveReader.
+type liveReaderMetrics struct {
+	readerCorruptionErrors *prometheus.CounterVec
+}
+
+// LiveReaderMetrics instatiates, registers and returns metrics to be injected
+// at LiveReader instantiation.
+func NewLiveReaderMetrics(reg prometheus.Registerer) *liveReaderMetrics {
+	m := &liveReaderMetrics{
+		readerCorruptionErrors: prometheus.NewCounterVec(prometheus.CounterOpts{
+			Name: "prometheus_tsdb_wal_reader_corruption_errors_total",
+			Help: "Errors encountered when reading the WAL.",
+		}, []string{"error"}),
+	}
+
+	if reg != nil {
+		reg.Register(m.readerCorruptionErrors)
+	}
+
+	return m
+}
+
 // NewLiveReader returns a new live reader.
-func NewLiveReader(logger log.Logger, reg prometheus.Registerer, r io.Reader) *LiveReader {
+func NewLiveReader(logger log.Logger, metrics *liveReaderMetrics, r io.Reader) *LiveReader {
 	lr := &LiveReader{
-		logger: logger,
-		rdr:    r,
+		logger:  logger,
+		rdr:     r,
+		metrics: metrics,
 
 		// Until we understand how they come about, make readers permissive
 		// to records spanning pages.
 		permissive: true,
 	}
 
-	lr.readerCorruptionErrors = prometheus.NewCounterVec(prometheus.CounterOpts{
-		Name: "prometheus_tsdb_wal_reader_corruption_errors_total",
-		Help: "Errors encountered when reading the WAL.",
-	}, []string{"error"})
-
-	if reg != nil {
-		reg.MustRegister(lr.readerCorruptionErrors)
-	}
-
 	return lr
 }
 
@@ -74,7 +88,7 @@ type LiveReader struct {
 	// NB the non-ive Reader implementation allows for this.
 	permissive bool
 
-	readerCorruptionErrors *prometheus.CounterVec
+	metrics *liveReaderMetrics
 }
 
 // Err returns any errors encountered reading the WAL.  io.EOFs are not terminal
@@ -282,7 +296,7 @@ func (r *LiveReader) readRecord() ([]byte, int, error) {
 		if !r.permissive {
 			return nil, 0, fmt.Errorf("record would overflow current page: %d > %d", r.readIndex+recordHeaderSize+length, pageSize)
 		}
-		r.readerCorruptionErrors.WithLabelValues("record_span_page").Inc()
+		r.metrics.readerCorruptionErrors.WithLabelValues("record_span_page").Inc()
 		level.Warn(r.logger).Log("msg", "record spans page boundaries", "start", r.readIndex, "end", recordHeaderSize+length, "pageSize", pageSize)
 	}
 	if recordHeaderSize+length > pageSize {
diff --git a/wal/reader_test.go b/wal/reader_test.go
index 1e15cae84..96d152254 100644
--- a/wal/reader_test.go
+++ b/wal/reader_test.go
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ var readerConstructors = map[string]func(io.Reader) reader{
 		return NewReader(r)
 	},
 	"LiveReader": func(r io.Reader) reader {
-		lr := NewLiveReader(log.NewNopLogger(), nil, r)
+		lr := NewLiveReader(log.NewNopLogger(), NewLiveReaderMetrics(nil), r)
 		lr.eofNonErr = true
 		return lr
 	},
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ func TestReader_Live(t *testing.T) {
 			// Read from a second FD on the same file.
 			readFd, err := os.Open(writeFd.Name())
 			testutil.Ok(t, err)
-			reader := NewLiveReader(logger, nil, readFd)
+			reader := NewLiveReader(logger, NewLiveReaderMetrics(nil), readFd)
 			for _, exp := range testReaderCases[i].exp {
 				for !reader.Next() {
 					testutil.Assert(t, reader.Err() == io.EOF, "expect EOF, got: %v", reader.Err())
@@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ func TestLiveReaderCorrupt_RecordTooLongAndShort(t *testing.T) {
 	testutil.Ok(t, err)
 	defer seg.Close()
 
-	r := NewLiveReader(logger, nil, seg)
+	r := NewLiveReader(logger, NewLiveReaderMetrics(nil), seg)
 	testutil.Assert(t, r.Next() == false, "expected no records")
 	testutil.Assert(t, r.Err().Error() == "record length greater than a single page: 65542 > 32768", "expected error, got: %v", r.Err())
 }