---
title: Metrics settings in Kibana
description: You do not need to configure any settings to use the Metrics app in Kibana. It is enabled by default. 
url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/reference/kibana/configuration-reference/metrics-settings
products:
  - Kibana
applies_to:
  - Self-managed Elastic deployments: Generally available
---

# Metrics settings in Kibana
You do not need to configure any settings to use the Metrics app in Kibana. It is enabled by default.

## General Metrics settings

<definitions>
  <definition term="xpack.infra.sources.default.fields.message">
    Deprecated in 8.18. Fields used to display messages in the Logs app. Defaults to `['message', '@message']`.
  </definition>
  <definition term="xpack.infra.alerting.inventory_threshold.group_by_page_size">
    Controls the size of the composite aggregations used by the Inventory Threshold to retrieve all the hosts. Defaults to `10_000`.
  </definition>
  <definition term="xpack.infra.alerting.metric_threshold.group_by_page_size">
    Controls the size of the composite aggregations used by the Metric Threshold group by feature. Defaults to `10_000`.
  </definition>
</definitions>