diff --git a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/mode-prometheus.js b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/mode-prometheus.js
index 165c1a364c4..1e93f8c9a60 100644
--- a/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/mode-prometheus.js
+++ b/public/app/plugins/datasource/prometheus/mode-prometheus.js
@@ -75,8 +75,7 @@ var PrometheusHighlightRules = function() {
       regex : '"[^"]*"|\'[^\']*\''
     }, {
       token : "punctuation.operator",
-      regex : ",",
-      push  : 'start-label-matcher'
+      regex : ","
     }, {
       token : "paren.rparen",
       regex : "}",