diff --git a/app/controllers/api/subcollections/metrics.rb b/app/controllers/api/subcollections/metrics.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..eb45721d99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/controllers/api/subcollections/metrics.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+module Api
+  module Subcollections
+    module Metrics
+      RESOURCE_TYPES = {
+        'vms' => 'VmOrTemplate'
+      }.freeze
+
+      def metrics_query_resource(object)
+        params[:resource_type] = RESOURCE_TYPES[@req.collection] || object.class.to_s
+        params[:resource_ids] ||= [object.id]
+
+        metrics_service = MetricsService.new(params)
+        metrics_service.query_metrics
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/app/controllers/api/vms_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/vms_controller.rb
index f5e6398b59..fcb71fa5c8 100644
--- a/app/controllers/api/vms_controller.rb
+++ b/app/controllers/api/vms_controller.rb
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ class VmsController < BaseController
     include Subcollections::Compliances
     include Subcollections::CustomAttributes
     include Subcollections::Disks
+    include Subcollections::Metrics
     include Subcollections::MetricRollups
     include Subcollections::Policies
     include Subcollections::PolicyProfiles
diff --git a/config/api.yml b/config/api.yml
index 3e7ff18d5d..8a0c4d4138 100644
--- a/config/api.yml
+++ b/config/api.yml
@@ -2237,7 +2237,7 @@
     :klass: ChargebackRateDetailMeasure
   :metric_rollups:
     :description: Metric Rollups
-    :identifier: metric_rollups
+    :identifier: metrics
     :options:
     - :collection
     - :subcollection
diff --git a/spec/requests/vms_spec.rb b/spec/requests/vms_spec.rb
index 91747096ee..058c41eba8 100644
--- a/spec/requests/vms_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/requests/vms_spec.rb
@@ -2148,6 +2148,37 @@ def query_match_regexp(*tables)
     end
   end
 
+  describe "metrics subcollection" do
+    let(:url) { api_vm_metrics_url(nil, vm) }
+
+    before do
+      FactoryBot.create_list(:metric_vm_rt, 3, :resource => vm)
+    end
+
+    it 'returns the metrics for the vm' do
+      api_basic_authorize subcollection_action_identifier(:vms, :metrics, :read, :get)
+
+      get(url, :params => {:start_date => Time.zone.today.to_s})
+
+      expected = {
+        'count'    => 3,
+        'subcount' => 3,
+        'pages'    => 1
+      }
+      expect(response).to have_http_status(:ok)
+      expect(response.parsed_body).to include(expected)
+      expect(response.parsed_body['links'].keys).to match_array(%w[self first last])
+    end
+
+    it 'will not return metrics without an appropriate role' do
+      api_basic_authorize
+
+      get(url, :params => {:start_date => Time.zone.today.to_s})
+
+      expect(response).to have_http_status(:forbidden)
+    end
+  end
+
   describe "metric rollups subcollection" do
     let(:url) { api_vm_metric_rollups_url(nil, vm) }