diff --git a/CHANGES.MD b/CHANGES.MD
index b7e00f0..5e50773 100644
--- a/CHANGES.MD
+++ b/CHANGES.MD
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+### Version 1.2.3
+
+* Changed Exclude Filter Strategy
+
 ### Version 1.2.2
 
 * Fixed config.yml change bug
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 18cad66..4efabbc 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
     <groupId>com.appdynamics.monitors</groupId>
     <artifactId>azure-monitoring-extension</artifactId>
-    <version>1.2.2</version>
+    <version>1.2.3</version>
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     </properties>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/appdynamics/monitors/azure/Utilities.java b/src/main/java/com/appdynamics/monitors/azure/Utilities.java
index 7e34b75..032f78d 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/appdynamics/monitors/azure/Utilities.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/appdynamics/monitors/azure/Utilities.java
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static Map<String,String> getResourceFilter(JsonNode filtersJson) {
     static Boolean checkResourceFilter(JsonNode jsonNode, Map<String,String> resourceFilter){
         for(Map.Entry<String, String> entry : resourceFilter.entrySet()){
             if(jsonNode.get("resourceId").asText().contains(entry.getKey())){
-                if (jsonNode.get("name").get("value").asText().matches(entry.getValue())){
+                if (jsonNode.get("id").asText().matches(entry.getValue())){
                     return true;
                 }
             }
diff --git a/src/main/resources/conf/config.yml b/src/main/resources/conf/config.yml
index c6d4a9e..e0f69f2 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/conf/config.yml
+++ b/src/main/resources/conf/config.yml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ monitor-api-version: "2017-05-01-preview"
 keyvault-api-version: "2016-10-01"
 
 # Include Filter - These Resource Types will be monitored:
-# The exclude Element will ignore by matching the regular expression against the Metric Name from the Metric Definition Response
+# The exclude Element will ignore by matching the regular expression against the Metric Definition ID from the Metric Definition Response
 filter:
   - resourceType: "Microsoft.AnalysisServices/servers"
 #   exclude: ".*"