diff --git a/apps/CMakeLists.txt b/apps/CMakeLists.txt
index 333d72d9c4e..a4f34812cea 100644
--- a/apps/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/apps/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ endmacro ()
 add_subdirectory (httpd)
 add_subdirectory (io_tester)
 add_subdirectory (rpc_tester)
-add_subdirectory(metrics_tester)
 add_subdirectory (iotune)
 add_subdirectory (memcached)
 add_subdirectory (seawreck)
diff --git a/apps/metrics_tester/CMakeLists.txt b/apps/metrics_tester/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 4883e083e1e..00000000000
--- a/apps/metrics_tester/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-#
-# This file is open source software, licensed to you under the terms
-# of the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License").  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright
-# ownership.  You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-#
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-#
-
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2024 Scylladb, Ltd.
-#
-
-seastar_add_app (metrics_tester
-  SOURCES metrics_tester.cc)
-
-target_link_libraries (app_metrics_tester
-  PRIVATE yaml-cpp::yaml-cpp)
diff --git a/tests/unit/CMakeLists.txt b/tests/unit/CMakeLists.txt
index e74df8d8ce9..b85d701eba6 100644
--- a/tests/unit/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/tests/unit/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -757,3 +757,10 @@ add_test (
 set_tests_properties (Seastar.unit.json2code
   PROPERTIES
     TIMEOUT ${Seastar_TEST_TIMEOUT})
+
+add_executable (metrics_tester
+  metrics_tester.cc)
+target_link_libraries (metrics_tester
+  PRIVATE
+    seastar_private
+    yaml-cpp::yaml-cpp)
diff --git a/apps/metrics_tester/conf-example.yaml b/tests/unit/conf-example.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from apps/metrics_tester/conf-example.yaml
rename to tests/unit/conf-example.yaml
diff --git a/apps/metrics_tester/metrics_tester.cc b/tests/unit/metrics_tester.cc
similarity index 99%
rename from apps/metrics_tester/metrics_tester.cc
rename to tests/unit/metrics_tester.cc
index 84fef695c94..b1a7ed87ac7 100644
--- a/apps/metrics_tester/metrics_tester.cc
+++ b/tests/unit/metrics_tester.cc
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 #include <seastar/core/relabel_config.hh>
 #include <seastar/core/internal/estimated_histogram.hh>
 #include <seastar/util/defer.hh>
-#include "../lib/stop_signal.hh"
+#include "../../apps/lib/stop_signal.hh"
 #include <map>
 #include <vector>
 #include <yaml-cpp/yaml.h>
diff --git a/apps/metrics_tester/test_metrics.py b/tests/unit/test_metrics.py
similarity index 100%
rename from apps/metrics_tester/test_metrics.py
rename to tests/unit/test_metrics.py