diff --git a/gnocchi/rest/aggregates/api.py b/gnocchi/rest/aggregates/api.py
index e1fd08ca4..d6d8b1118 100644
--- a/gnocchi/rest/aggregates/api.py
+++ b/gnocchi/rest/aggregates/api.py
@@ -612,7 +612,8 @@ def post(self, start=None, stop=None, granularity=None,
                                 "detail": references})
 
             metrics = pecan.request.indexer.list_metrics(
-                attribute_filter={"in": {"id": metric_ids}})
+                attribute_filter={"in": {"id": metric_ids}},
+                details=True)
             missing_metric_ids = (set(metric_ids)
                                   - set(str(m.id) for m in metrics))
             if missing_metric_ids:
diff --git a/gnocchi/rest/api.py b/gnocchi/rest/api.py
index ad0ff9130..f1b73640a 100644
--- a/gnocchi/rest/api.py
+++ b/gnocchi/rest/api.py
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 import operator
 import uuid
 
+from collections import abc
 import jsonpatch
 from oslo_utils import strutils
 import pecan
@@ -54,10 +55,20 @@
 except ImportError:
     PROMETHEUS_SUPPORTED = False
 
+try:
+    from oslo_db.sqlalchemy import models as sqlalchemy_models
+    SQLALCHEMY_SUPPORTED = True
+except ImportError:
+    SQLALCHEMY_SUPPORTED = False
+
 
 ATTRGETTER_GRANULARITY = operator.attrgetter("granularity")
 LOG = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
+FLATTEN_DICT_TYPES = ((abc.Mapping, sqlalchemy_models.ModelBase)
+                      if SQLALCHEMY_SUPPORTED
+                      else (abc.Mapping,))
+
 
 def arg_to_list(value):
     if isinstance(value, list):
@@ -91,7 +102,7 @@ def flatten_dict_to_keypairs(d, separator=':'):
     :param separator: symbol between names
     """
     for name, value in sorted(d.items()):
-        if isinstance(value, dict):
+        if isinstance(value, FLATTEN_DICT_TYPES):
             for subname, subvalue in flatten_dict_to_keypairs(value,
                                                               separator):
                 yield ('%s%s%s' % (name, separator, subname), subvalue)
diff --git a/gnocchi/tests/test_rest.py b/gnocchi/tests/test_rest.py
index 118f7ae01..aa565cbe2 100644
--- a/gnocchi/tests/test_rest.py
+++ b/gnocchi/tests/test_rest.py
@@ -1886,6 +1886,58 @@ def test_search_resources_invalid_query(self):
         )
 
 
+class AggregatesTest(RestTest):
+    def test_get_metric_aggregates_with_another_user(self):
+        r = self.app.post_json(
+            "/v1/metric",
+            params={"archive_policy_name": "medium"},
+            status=201)
+        metric_id = r.json['id']
+        self.app.post_json(
+            f"/v1/metric/{metric_id}/measures",
+            params=[{"timestamp": "2013-01-01 12:00:01",
+                     "value": 8},
+                    {"timestamp": "2013-01-01 12:00:02",
+                     "value": 16}])
+        with self.app.use_another_user():
+            self.app.post_json(
+                "/v1/aggregates",
+                params={"operations": ["metric", metric_id, "mean"]},
+                status=403)
+
+    def test_get_metric_aggregates_with_another_user_allowed(self):
+        rid = str(uuid.uuid4())
+        r = self.app.post_json(
+            "/v1/resource/generic",
+            params={
+                "id": rid,
+                "project_id": TestingApp.PROJECT_ID_2,
+                "metrics": {
+                    "disk": {"archive_policy_name": "low"},
+                }
+            })
+        metric_id = r.json['metrics']['disk']
+        self.app.post_json(
+            f"/v1/metric/{metric_id}/measures",
+            params=[{"timestamp": "2013-01-01 12:00:01",
+                     "value": 8},
+                    {"timestamp": "2013-01-01 12:00:02",
+                     "value": 16}])
+        with self.app.use_another_user():
+            r = self.app.post_json(
+                "/v1/aggregates",
+                params={"operations": ["metric", metric_id, "mean"]},
+                status=200)
+            aggregates = r.json
+            self.assertIn(metric_id, aggregates["measures"])
+            measures = aggregates["measures"][metric_id]
+            self.assertIn("mean", measures)
+            self.assertEqual([["2013-01-01T00:00:00+00:00", 86400, 12],
+                              ["2013-01-01T12:00:00+00:00", 3600, 12],
+                              ["2013-01-01T12:00:00+00:00", 300, 12]],
+                             measures["mean"])
+
+
 class QueryStringSearchAttrFilterTest(tests_base.TestCase):
     def _do_test(self, expr, expected):
         req = api.QueryStringSearchAttrFilter._parse(expr)