Auditory distraction is known to negatively impact memory performance. To mitigate its negative effects, accurate metacognitive monitoring is necessary. Recent research shows that in a serial recall task people are able to accurately assess the negative impact of different kinds of auditory distraction on memory, correctly ranking them from the most to the least disruptive. But are those assessments general – people perceive different kinds of auditory distraction as more or less disruptive – or are they task specific, correctly reflecting that distraction affects memory performance differently depending on test type? To investigate this, we replaced the serial recall task with a missing item task that produces a different pattern of distraction-related impairment, and collected prospective and retrospective metacognitive judgments throughout the task. Our results replicate previous findings showing differences in distraction effects across tasks, and underscore the importance of assessing metacognitive monitoring as a function of the task it applies to.