diff --git a/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/dash-acm-nexus-optimization-overview.yaml b/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/dash-acm-nexus-optimization-overview.yaml
index 7fe555a58..3639270f1 100644
--- a/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/dash-acm-nexus-optimization-overview.yaml
+++ b/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/dash-acm-nexus-optimization-overview.yaml
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ data:
           "targets": [
             {
               "exemplar": true,
-              "expr": "(sum(cluster:kube_pod_container_resource_requests:cpu:sum{cluster=\"$cluster\"}) / sum(kube_node_status_allocatable{cluster=\"$cluster\", resource=\"cpu\"})) - (1 - avg(rate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode=\"idle\",cluster=\"$cluster\"}[$__rate_interval])))",
+              "expr": "(sum(cluster:kube_pod_container_resource_requests:cpu:sum{cluster=\"$cluster\"}) / sum(kube_node_status_allocatable{cluster=\"$cluster\", resource=\"cpu\"})) - (1 - node_cpu_seconds_total:mode_idle:avg_rate5m)",
               "format": "time_series",
               "instant": true,
               "interval": "",
@@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ data:
           "pluginVersion": "8.5.20",
           "targets": [
             {
-              "expr": "1 - avg(rate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode=\"idle\", cluster=\"$cluster\"}[$__rate_interval]))",
+              "expr": "1 - node_cpu_seconds_total:mode_idle:avg_rate5m",
               "format": "time_series",
               "instant": true,
               "intervalFactor": 1,
diff --git a/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/dash-k8s-compute-resources-cluster.yaml b/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/dash-k8s-compute-resources-cluster.yaml
index 61f6a3ab0..6ac463f3d 100644
--- a/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/dash-k8s-compute-resources-cluster.yaml
+++ b/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/dash-k8s-compute-resources-cluster.yaml
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ data:
           "pluginVersion": "8.5.20",
           "targets": [
             {
-              "expr": "1 - avg(rate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode=\"idle\", cluster=\"$cluster\"}[$__rate_interval]))",
+              "expr": "1 - node_cpu_seconds_total:mode_idle:avg_rate5m",
               "format": "time_series",
               "instant": true,
               "intervalFactor": 1,
diff --git a/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/dash-k8s-etcd.yaml b/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/dash-k8s-etcd.yaml
index 57c09882d..492889727 100644
--- a/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/dash-k8s-etcd.yaml
+++ b/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/dash-k8s-etcd.yaml
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ data:
           "steppedLine": false,
           "targets": [
             {
-              "expr": "sum(rate(grpc_server_started_total{cluster=\"$cluster\",job=\"etcd\",grpc_type=\"unary\"}[$__rate_interval]))",
+              "expr": "grpc_server_started_total:etcd_unary:sum_rate",
               "format": "time_series",
               "interval": "",
               "intervalFactor": 2,
diff --git a/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/prometheus-rule.yaml b/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/prometheus-rule.yaml
index 3d15cc8f0..039bbaccd 100644
--- a/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/prometheus-rule.yaml
+++ b/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/prometheus-rule.yaml
@@ -194,3 +194,7 @@ spec:
       record: node_namespace_pod_container:container_cpu_usage_seconds_total:sum_rate
     - expr: histogram_quantile(0.99, sum(rate(workqueue_queue_duration_seconds_bucket{job="apiserver"}[5m])) by (instance, name, le))
       record: workqueue_queue_duration_seconds_bucket:apiserver:histogram_quantile_99
+    - expr: sum(rate(grpc_server_started_total{job="etcd",grpc_type="unary"}[5m]))
+      record: grpc_server_started_total:etcd_unary:sum_rate
+    - expr: avg(rate(node_cpu_seconds_total{mode="idle"}[5m]))
+      record: node_cpu_seconds_total:mode_idle:avg_rate5m
diff --git a/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/scrape-config.yaml b/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/scrape-config.yaml
index 535f1a780..46ed5040e 100644
--- a/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/scrape-config.yaml
+++ b/operators/multiclusterobservability/manifests/base/grafana/nexus/acm/scrape-config.yaml
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ spec:
     - '{__name__="etcd_server_proposals_failed_total"}'
     - '{__name__="etcd_server_proposals_pending"}'
     - '{__name__="go_goroutines",job="apiserver"}'
-    - '{__name__="grpc_server_started_total"}'
+    - '{__name__="grpc_server_started_total:etcd_unary:sum_rate"}'
     - '{__name__="instance:node_cpu_utilisation:rate1m"}'
     - '{__name__="instance:node_load1_per_cpu:ratio"}'
     - '{__name__="instance:node_memory_utilisation:ratio"}'
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ spec:
     - '{__name__="kube_resourcequota"}'
     - '{__name__="namespace_workload_pod:kube_pod_owner:relabel"}'
     - '{__name__="namespace_workload_pod:kube_pod_owner:relabel:avg"}'
-    - '{__name__="node_cpu_seconds_total"}'
+    - '{__name__="node_cpu_seconds_total:mode_idle:avg_rate5m"}'
     - '{__name__="node_filesystem_avail_bytes"}'
     - '{__name__="node_filesystem_size_bytes"}'
     - '{__name__="node_namespace_pod_container:container_cpu_usage_seconds_total:sum"}'