diff --git a/pkg/metrics/metrics.jsx b/pkg/metrics/metrics.jsx
index 80f1087..fda6049 100644
--- a/pkg/metrics/metrics.jsx
+++ b/pkg/metrics/metrics.jsx
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
  * along with Cockpit; If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  */
 
-import React, { useState, createRef } from 'react';
+import React, { useState, createRef, useEffect } from 'react';
 
 import { Alert } from "@patternfly/react-core/dist/esm/components/Alert/index.js";
 import { Breadcrumb, BreadcrumbItem } from "@patternfly/react-core/dist/esm/components/Breadcrumb/index.js";
@@ -1510,6 +1510,7 @@ const PCPConfigDialog = ({
 const PCPConfig = ({ buttonVariant, firewalldRequest }) => {
     const Dialogs = useDialogs();
     const [packageInstallStatus, setPackageInstallStatus] = useState(null);
+    const [isMicroOs, setIsMicroOs] = useState(false);
 
     const s_pmlogger = useObject(() => service.proxy("pmlogger.service"), null, []);
     const s_pmproxy = useObject(() => service.proxy("pmproxy.service"), null, []);
@@ -1531,6 +1532,12 @@ const PCPConfig = ({ buttonVariant, firewalldRequest }) => {
           "redis-server exists", s_redis_server.exists, "state", s_redis_server.state,
           "valkey exists", s_valkey.exists, "state", s_valkey.state);
 
+    useEffect(() => {
+        read_os_release().then((os_release) => {
+            setIsMicroOs(os_release?.ID_LIKE.includes("sle-micro") || os_release?.ID_LIKE.includes("microos"))
+        });
+    }, []);
+
     if (!superuser.allowed)
         return null;
 
@@ -1543,8 +1550,13 @@ const PCPConfig = ({ buttonVariant, firewalldRequest }) => {
                                       packageInstallCallback={() => setPackageInstallStatus("done")} />);
     }
 
+    function is_micro_os() {
+        return ;
+    }
+
     return (
         <Button variant={buttonVariant} icon={<CogIcon />}
+                className={isMicroOs ? "pf-u-display-none" : ""}
                 isDisabled={ invalidService(s_pmlogger) || invalidService(s_pmproxy) ||
                              invalidService(s_redis) || invalidService(s_redis_server) || invalidService(s_valkey) }
                 onClick={show_dialog}
@@ -1578,6 +1590,7 @@ class MetricsHistory extends React.Component {
             isBeibootBridge: false,
             isPythonPCPInstalled: null,
             selectedVisibility: this.columns.reduce((a, v) => ({ ...a, [v[0]]: true }), {}),
+            isMicroOs: false,
             boots: [], // journalctl --list-boots as [{started: Date, ended: Date}]
         };
 
@@ -1609,6 +1622,10 @@ class MetricsHistory extends React.Component {
 
     // load and render the last 24 hours (plus current one) initially; this needs numCpu initialized for correct scaling
     initialLoadData() {
+        read_os_release().then((os_release) => {
+            this.setState({ isMicroOs: os_release?.ID_LIKE.includes("sle-micro") || os_release?.ID_LIKE.includes("microos") });
+        });
+
         cockpit.spawn(["date", "+%s"])
                 .then(out => {
                     const now = parseInt(out.trim()) * 1000;
@@ -1815,6 +1832,9 @@ class MetricsHistory extends React.Component {
     }
 
     render() {
+        if (this.state.isMicroOs)
+            return <></>;
+
         // on a single machine, cockpit-pcp depends on pcp; but this may not be the case in the beiboot scenario,
         // so additionally check if pcp is available on the logged in target machine
         if (this.state.isPythonPCPInstalled === false || this.pmlogger_service.exists === false)