---
title: Metrics UI in Elastic APM
description: The Metrics overview provides APM agent-specific metrics, which lets you perform more in-depth root cause analysis investigations within the Applications...
url: https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3145/solutions/observability/apm/metrics-ui
products:
  - APM
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless
  - Elastic Observability
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Metrics UI in Elastic APM
The **Metrics** overview provides APM agent-specific metrics, which lets you perform more in-depth root cause analysis investigations within the Applications UI.
If you’re experiencing a problem with your service, you can use this page to attempt to find the underlying cause. For example, you might be able to correlate a high number of errors with a long transaction duration, high CPU usage, or a memory leak.
![Example view of the Metrics overview in Applications UI in Kibana](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3145/solutions/images/observability-apm-metrics.png)

<note>
  Dashboard resolution is version-aware: the Metrics tab uses the service’s runtime version — alongside data format, SDK name, and language — to load the correct dashboard. For example, .NET 9 and later services use a built-in runtime metrics dashboard, while .NET 8 and earlier services use a legacy contrib metrics dashboard. This ensures you always see the metrics that match your service’s runtime version.
</note>

If you’re using the Java APM agent, you can view metrics for each JVM.
![Example view of the Metrics overview for the Java Agent](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3145/solutions/images/observability-jvm-metrics-overview.png)

Breaking down metrics by JVM makes it much easier to analyze the provided metrics: CPU usage, memory usage, heap or non-heap memory, thread count, garbage collection rate, and garbage collection time spent per minute.
![Example view of the Metrics overview for the Java Agent](https://www.elastic.co/elastic/docs-builder/docs/3145/solutions/images/observability-jvm-metrics.png)