diff --git a/lib/api/objectDelete.js b/lib/api/objectDelete.js
index b8ec7fb168..d2045821bd 100644
--- a/lib/api/objectDelete.js
+++ b/lib/api/objectDelete.js
@@ -51,13 +51,6 @@ function objectDeleteInternal(authInfo, request, log, isExpiration, cb) {
     const reqVersionId = decodedVidResult;
     const hasGovernanceBypass = hasGovernanceBypassHeader(request.headers);
 
-    // Reassign a specific apiMethod, as monitoring can rely on the
-    // type of cloudserver instance to determine it comes from Backbeat routes.
-    // This is also needed for quota evaluation, where "routeBackbeat" cannot
-    // be used for different operations, such as putObject
-    // eslint-disable-next-line no-param-reassign
-    request.apiMethod = reqVersionId ? 'objectDeleteVersion' : 'deleteObject';
-
     const valParams = {
         authInfo,
         bucketName,
diff --git a/lib/routes/routeBackbeat.js b/lib/routes/routeBackbeat.js
index e081c46e9b..c28c14fed0 100644
--- a/lib/routes/routeBackbeat.js
+++ b/lib/routes/routeBackbeat.js
@@ -711,6 +711,16 @@ function putObject(request, response, log, callback) {
 }
 
 function deleteObjectFromExpiration(request, response, userInfo, log, callback) {
+    // Reassign a specific apiMethod, as it is needed for quota evaluation (at least), where
+    // "routeBackbeat" cannot be used as it is used for all backbeat API operations...
+    // eslint-disable-next-line no-param-reassign
+    request.apiMethod = 'deleteObject';
+
+    // Also need to fix `apiMethods`, which is kind of hard-coded to `objectReplicate` for backbeat
+    // routes.
+    // eslint-disable-next-line no-param-reassign
+    request.apiMethods = ['objectDelete', 'objectDeleteVersion', ...request.apiMethods];
+
     return objectDeleteInternal(userInfo, request, log, true, err => {
         if (err) {
             log.error('error deleting object from expiration', {