diff --git a/scripts/base/frameworks/cluster/telemetry.zeek b/scripts/base/frameworks/cluster/telemetry.zeek
index 879f8a9770..a743cd0107 100644
--- a/scripts/base/frameworks/cluster/telemetry.zeek
+++ b/scripts/base/frameworks/cluster/telemetry.zeek
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ export {
 	## Map to an empty string to skip recording a specific metric
 	## completely.
 	const topic_normalizations: table[pattern] of string = {
-		[/^zeek\.cluster\.nodeid\..*/] = "zeek.cluster.nodeid.__normalized__",
 		[/^zeek\/cluster\/nodeid\/.*/] = "zeek/cluster/nodeid/__normalized__",
 	} &ordered &redef;
 
diff --git a/scripts/policy/frameworks/cluster/backend/zeromq/main.zeek b/scripts/policy/frameworks/cluster/backend/zeromq/main.zeek
index 255be89ce4..dd1e28fe86 100644
--- a/scripts/policy/frameworks/cluster/backend/zeromq/main.zeek
+++ b/scripts/policy/frameworks/cluster/backend/zeromq/main.zeek
@@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ function zeromq_nodeid_topic(id: string): string {
 	return nodeid_topic_prefix + "." + id + ".";
 }
 
+redef Cluster::Telemetry::topic_normalizations += {
+	[/^zeek\.cluster\.nodeid\..*/] = "zeek.cluster.nodeid.__normalized__",
+};
+
 # Unique identifier for this node with some debug information.
 const my_node_id = fmt("zeromq_%s_%s_%s_%s",  Cluster::node, gethostname(), getpid(), unique_id("N"));