diff --git a/test_runner/fixtures/neon_fixtures.py b/test_runner/fixtures/neon_fixtures.py
index 87f0ac33482e..b512978d2743 100644
--- a/test_runner/fixtures/neon_fixtures.py
+++ b/test_runner/fixtures/neon_fixtures.py
@@ -1014,7 +1014,7 @@ def neon_env_and_metrics_server(
     httpserver: HTTPServer,
     neon_env_builder: NeonEnvBuilder,
     httpserver_listen_address,
-) -> Iterator[Tuple[NeonEnv, SimpleQueue[Any]]]:
+) -> Tuple[NeonEnv, HTTPServer, SimpleQueue[Any]]:
     """
     Fixture to create a Neon environment and metrics server.
     """
@@ -1068,9 +1068,7 @@ def metrics_handler(request: Request) -> Response:
         ".*synthetic_size_worker: failed to calculate synthetic size for tenant .*: failed to calculate some logical_sizes"
     )
 
-    yield (env, uploads)
-
-    httpserver.check()
+    return (env, httpserver, uploads)
 
 
 @dataclass
diff --git a/test_runner/regress/test_pageserver_metric_collection.py b/test_runner/regress/test_pageserver_metric_collection.py
index b16f6bfad13e..45d3c947d4d6 100644
--- a/test_runner/regress/test_pageserver_metric_collection.py
+++ b/test_runner/regress/test_pageserver_metric_collection.py
@@ -11,10 +11,13 @@
     wait_for_last_flush_lsn,
 )
 from fixtures.types import TenantId, TimelineId
+from pytest_httpserver import HTTPServer
 
 
-def test_metric_collection(neon_env_and_metrics_server: Tuple[NeonEnv, SimpleQueue[Any]]):
-    (env, uploads) = neon_env_and_metrics_server
+def test_metric_collection(
+    neon_env_and_metrics_server: Tuple[NeonEnv, HTTPServer, SimpleQueue[Any]]
+):
+    (env, httpserver, uploads) = neon_env_and_metrics_server
 
     tenant_id = env.initial_tenant
     timeline_id = env.initial_timeline
@@ -107,11 +110,13 @@ def get_num_remote_ops(file_kind: str, op_kind: str) -> int:
             (events, is_last) = events
             v.ingest(events, is_last)
 
+    httpserver.check()
+
 
 def test_metric_collection_cleans_up_tempfile(
-    neon_env_and_metrics_server: Tuple[NeonEnv, SimpleQueue[Any]]
+    neon_env_and_metrics_server: Tuple[NeonEnv, HTTPServer, SimpleQueue[Any]]
 ):
-    (env, uploads) = neon_env_and_metrics_server
+    (env, httpserver, uploads) = neon_env_and_metrics_server
     pageserver_http = env.pageserver.http_client()
 
     tenant_id = env.initial_tenant
@@ -183,6 +188,8 @@ def test_metric_collection_cleans_up_tempfile(
     ), "only initial tempfile should had been removed"
     assert initially.other.issuperset(later.other), "no other files should had been removed"
 
+    httpserver.check()
+
 
 @dataclass
 class PrefixPartitionedFiles: