kibana/docs/reference/configuration-reference/metrics-settings.md
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[9.0] [DOCS] Consolidate and clean up Kibana settings (part 1) (#214934) (#215048)
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(#214934)](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/214934)

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Co-authored-by: Lisa Cawley <lcawley@elastic.co>
2025-03-18 19:08:07 +00:00

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Metrics settings
https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/infrastructure-ui-settings-kb.html
deployment
self
all

Metrics settings in {{kib}} [infrastructure-ui-settings-kb]

You do not need to configure any settings to use the Metrics app in {{kib}}. It is enabled by default.

General Metrics settings [general-infra-ui-settings-kb]

xpack.infra.sources.default.fields.message
Deprecated in 8.18. Fields used to display messages in the Logs app. Defaults to ['message', '@message'].
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.
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.