diff --git a/metrics/cpu.go b/metrics/cpu.go
index 72ece16e07..3a49cd4249 100644
--- a/metrics/cpu.go
+++ b/metrics/cpu.go
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@
 package metrics
 
 // CPUStats is the system and process CPU stats.
+// All values are in seconds.
 type CPUStats struct {
-	GlobalTime int64 // Time spent by the CPU working on all processes
-	GlobalWait int64 // Time spent by waiting on disk for all processes
-	LocalTime  int64 // Time spent by the CPU working on this process
+	GlobalTime float64 // Time spent by the CPU working on all processes
+	GlobalWait float64 // Time spent by waiting on disk for all processes
+	LocalTime  float64 // Time spent by the CPU working on this process
 }
diff --git a/metrics/cpu_enabled.go b/metrics/cpu_enabled.go
index 533d40b85a..2359028a21 100644
--- a/metrics/cpu_enabled.go
+++ b/metrics/cpu_enabled.go
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ func ReadCPUStats(stats *CPUStats) {
 	}
 	// requesting all cpu times will always return an array with only one time stats entry
 	timeStat := timeStats[0]
-	stats.GlobalTime = int64((timeStat.User + timeStat.Nice + timeStat.System) * cpu.ClocksPerSec)
-	stats.GlobalWait = int64((timeStat.Iowait) * cpu.ClocksPerSec)
+	stats.GlobalTime = timeStat.User + timeStat.Nice + timeStat.System
+	stats.GlobalWait = timeStat.Iowait
 	stats.LocalTime = getProcessCPUTime()
 }
diff --git a/metrics/cputime_nop.go b/metrics/cputime_nop.go
index 0188735a78..465d88c4d2 100644
--- a/metrics/cputime_nop.go
+++ b/metrics/cputime_nop.go
@@ -21,6 +21,6 @@ package metrics
 
 // getProcessCPUTime returns 0 on Windows as there is no system call to resolve
 // the actual process' CPU time.
-func getProcessCPUTime() int64 {
+func getProcessCPUTime() float64 {
 	return 0
 }
diff --git a/metrics/cputime_unix.go b/metrics/cputime_unix.go
index 3c56a75d00..ad4f812fd2 100644
--- a/metrics/cputime_unix.go
+++ b/metrics/cputime_unix.go
@@ -26,11 +26,11 @@ import (
 )
 
 // getProcessCPUTime retrieves the process' CPU time since program startup.
-func getProcessCPUTime() int64 {
+func getProcessCPUTime() float64 {
 	var usage syscall.Rusage
 	if err := syscall.Getrusage(syscall.RUSAGE_SELF, &usage); err != nil {
 		log.Warn("Failed to retrieve CPU time", "err", err)
 		return 0
 	}
-	return int64(usage.Utime.Sec+usage.Stime.Sec)*100 + int64(usage.Utime.Usec+usage.Stime.Usec)/10000 //nolint:unconvert
+	return float64(usage.Utime.Sec+usage.Stime.Sec) + float64(usage.Utime.Usec+usage.Stime.Usec)/1000000 //nolint:unconvert
 }
diff --git a/metrics/metrics.go b/metrics/metrics.go
index 2edf8e35f1..ff7196b564 100644
--- a/metrics/metrics.go
+++ b/metrics/metrics.go
@@ -127,8 +127,6 @@ func CollectProcessMetrics(refresh time.Duration) {
 		return
 	}
 
-	refreshFreq := int64(refresh / time.Second)
-
 	// Create the various data collectors
 	var (
 		cpustats  = make([]CPUStats, 2)
@@ -163,14 +161,25 @@ func CollectProcessMetrics(refresh time.Duration) {
 		diskWriteBytesCounter = GetOrRegisterCounter("system/disk/writebytes", DefaultRegistry)
 	)
 
+	var lastCollectTime time.Time
+
 	// Iterate loading the different stats and updating the meters.
 	now, prev := 0, 1
 	for ; ; now, prev = prev, now {
-		// CPU
+		// Gather CPU times.
 		ReadCPUStats(&cpustats[now])
-		cpuSysLoad.Update((cpustats[now].GlobalTime - cpustats[prev].GlobalTime) / refreshFreq)
-		cpuSysWait.Update((cpustats[now].GlobalWait - cpustats[prev].GlobalWait) / refreshFreq)
-		cpuProcLoad.Update((cpustats[now].LocalTime - cpustats[prev].LocalTime) / refreshFreq)
+		collectTime := time.Now()
+		secondsSinceLastCollect := collectTime.Sub(lastCollectTime).Seconds()
+		lastCollectTime = collectTime
+		if secondsSinceLastCollect > 0 {
+			sysLoad := (cpustats[now].GlobalTime - cpustats[prev].GlobalTime) / secondsSinceLastCollect
+			sysWait := (cpustats[now].GlobalWait - cpustats[prev].GlobalWait) / secondsSinceLastCollect
+			procLoad := (cpustats[now].LocalTime - cpustats[prev].LocalTime) / secondsSinceLastCollect
+			// Convert to integer percentage.
+			cpuSysLoad.Update(int64(sysLoad * 100))
+			cpuSysWait.Update(int64(sysWait * 100))
+			cpuProcLoad.Update(int64(procLoad * 100))
+		}
 
 		// Threads
 		cpuThreads.Update(int64(threadCreateProfile.Count()))