---
title: Metrics settings in Kibana
description: 
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">
    <stack-availability>Elastic Stack: Deprecated since 8.18</stack-availability>
    <supported-on>Self-managed Elastic deployments: Generally available</supported-on>

Fields used to display messages in the Logs app.
Datatype: `string`
Default: `['message', '@message']`

<admonition title="Deprecation details">
  Deprecated in 8.18.
</admonition>

  </definition>
  <definition term="xpack.infra.alerting.inventory_threshold.group_by_page_size">
    <supported-on>Self-managed Elastic deployments: Generally available</supported-on>

Controls the size of the composite aggregations used by the Inventory Threshold to retrieve all the hosts.
Datatype: `int`
Default: `5000`
  </definition>
  <definition term="xpack.infra.alerting.metric_threshold.group_by_page_size">
    <supported-on>Self-managed Elastic deployments: Generally available</supported-on>

Controls the size of the composite aggregations used by the Metric Threshold group by feature.
Datatype: `int`
Default: `10000`
  </definition>
</definitions>