diff --git a/NOTICE.txt b/NOTICE.txt
index 214e5d7da3..19605e31f0 100644
--- a/NOTICE.txt
+++ b/NOTICE.txt
@@ -902,11 +902,11 @@ Contents of probable licence file $GOMODCACHE/github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-l
 
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Dependency : github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-system-metrics
-Version: v0.11.15
+Version: v0.13.2
 Licence type (autodetected): Apache-2.0
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-Contents of probable licence file $GOMODCACHE/github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-system-metrics@v0.11.15/LICENSE.txt:
+Contents of probable licence file $GOMODCACHE/github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-system-metrics@v0.13.2/LICENSE.txt:
 
                                  Apache License
                            Version 2.0, January 2004
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 26d29230e8..222fd9368f 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/docker/go-units v0.5.0
 	github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-client/v7 v7.17.2
 	github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-libs v0.24.0
-	github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-system-metrics v0.11.15
+	github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-system-metrics v0.13.2
 	github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/v8 v8.18.1
 	github.com/elastic/go-ucfg v0.8.8
 	github.com/fxamacker/cbor/v2 v2.8.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 96dd6a34c8..21443ccb9d 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-client/v7 v7.17.2 h1:Cl2TeABqWZgW40t5fchGWT/sRk
 github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-client/v7 v7.17.2/go.mod h1:5irRFqp6HLqtu1S+OeY0jg8x7K6PLL+DW+PwVk1vJnk=
 github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-libs v0.24.0 h1:8skd0le8Y/zAGVaj4m44ljiJMAp0xuJz07ngDTL/1kM=
 github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-libs v0.24.0/go.mod h1:xSeIP3NtOIT4N2pPS4EyURmS1Q8mK0lWZ8Wd1Du6q3w=
-github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-system-metrics v0.11.15 h1:RWX0n6LakadsqB6YB2I7AIXyMlEO4qBUGWn4A+aGeKA=
-github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-system-metrics v0.11.15/go.mod h1:qiZC5p1hd8te4XVnhh7FkXdcYhxFnl5i9GJpROtf6zo=
+github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-system-metrics v0.13.2 h1:R4ogKHESuWhWTtopnw/aHnBxxSZbxd7KHV4GefdwT2M=
+github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-system-metrics v0.13.2/go.mod h1:ezM1kzDUT+vWXFh5oK8QXB/AEB0UoLWqWA8rkRicFFo=
 github.com/elastic/elastic-transport-go/v8 v8.7.0 h1:OgTneVuXP2uip4BA658Xi6Hfw+PeIOod2rY3GVMGoVE=
 github.com/elastic/elastic-transport-go/v8 v8.7.0/go.mod h1:YLHer5cj0csTzNFXoNQ8qhtGY1GTvSqPnKWKaqQE3Hk=
 github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch/v8 v8.18.1 h1:lPsN2Wk6+QqBeD4ckmOax7G/Y8tAZgroDYG8j6/5Ce0=
diff --git a/internal/pkg/api/metrics.go b/internal/pkg/api/metrics.go
index 7e4c6f096d..93f9b87565 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/api/metrics.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/api/metrics.go
@@ -55,7 +55,11 @@ var (
 // metrics must be explicitly exposed with a call to InitMetrics
 // FIXME we have global metrics but an internal and external API; this may lead to some confusion.
 func init() {
-	err := report.SetupMetrics(logger.NewZapStub("instance-metrics"), build.ServiceName, version.DefaultVersion)
+	err := report.SetupMetricsOptions(report.MetricOptions{
+		Logger:  logger.NewZapStub("instance-metrics"),
+		Name:    build.ServiceName,
+		Version: version.DefaultVersion,
+	})
 	if err != nil {
 		zerolog.Ctx(context.TODO()).Error().Err(err).Msg("unable to initialize metrics") // TODO is used because this may logged during the package load
 	}
@@ -91,7 +95,7 @@ func newMetricsRegistry(name string) *metricsRegistry {
 	reg := monitoring.Default
 	return &metricsRegistry{
 		fullName: name,
-		registry: reg.NewRegistry(name),
+		registry: reg.GetOrCreateRegistry(name),
 		promReg:  prometheus.NewRegistry(),
 	}
 }
@@ -103,7 +107,7 @@ func (r *metricsRegistry) newRegistry(name string) *metricsRegistry {
 	}
 	return &metricsRegistry{
 		fullName: fullName,
-		registry: r.registry.NewRegistry(name),
+		registry: r.registry.GetOrCreateRegistry(name),
 		promReg:  r.promReg,
 	}
 }