diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index e087291d2752e55c0e2e301c1b7f2d675a4f5949..9b36a6f2a09259bffe3d53d9dbae59aabb69ece2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ __pycache__
 coverage.xml
 .coverage
 htmlcov
+docs/build
+*.log
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Changelog.md b/Changelog.md
index 0f0fb1319c7dbec3f3bc9222a556a45df0f5c710..461456c34ff464d12b957281abcbc15ee073f392 100644
--- a/Changelog.md
+++ b/Changelog.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ## [0.5] - 2021-10-11
-- POL1-463: EUMETSAT multicast dashboards
+- POL1-463: pol EUMETSAT multicast counters
 
 ## [0.4] - 2021-08-24
 - bugfix (POL1-492)
diff --git a/brian_polling_manager/interfaces.py b/brian_polling_manager/interfaces.py
index ab6a15e2f8f03984d7c0c4c58a2f0fc8c8c3eb3a..6465f520cc4e5ced8fea53bfcf596a3eaacc0993 100644
--- a/brian_polling_manager/interfaces.py
+++ b/brian_polling_manager/interfaces.py
@@ -25,7 +25,10 @@ class InterfaceCheck(sensu.AbstractCheck):
 
     @sensu.AbstractCheck.name.getter
     def name(self):
-        ifc_name = self.interface['name'].replace('/', '-')
+        # fix POL1-386 - replace : in interface name with .
+        # https://docs.sensu.io/sensu-go/latest/observability-pipeline/
+        # observe-schedule/checks/#metadata-attributes
+        ifc_name = self.interface['name'].replace('/', '-').replace(':', '.')
         return f'ifc-{self.interface["router"]}-{ifc_name}'
 
     @sensu.AbstractCheck.command.getter
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bb76539a9652ce13ed2105f76e8a58349bba8985..57d168e3244412fc598b47556ce62563e62643e0 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
 setup(
     name='brian-polling-manager',
-    version="0.5",
+    version="0.6",
     author='GEANT',
     author_email='swd@geant.org',
     description='service for managing BRIAN polling checks',
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index 88439ca5e63e6c272d36794aad7324d44ed927e4..ebb3d1ca90d07d59f47a42090cb6e06d477041c5 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 [tox]
 envlist = py36
 
+[flake8]
+exclude = venv,.tox
+
 [testenv]
 deps =
     coverage