diff --git a/meilisearch/src/lib.rs b/meilisearch/src/lib.rs
index bee53f6f8..a9bd68934 100644
--- a/meilisearch/src/lib.rs
+++ b/meilisearch/src/lib.rs
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ fn open_or_create_database_unchecked(
     // we don't want to create anything in the data.ms yet, thus we
     // wrap our two builders in a closure that'll be executed later.
     let auth_controller = AuthController::new(&opt.db_path, &opt.master_key);
+    let instance_features = opt.to_instance_features();
     let index_scheduler_builder = || -> anyhow::Result<_> {
         Ok(IndexScheduler::new(IndexSchedulerOptions {
             version_file_path: opt.db_path.join(VERSION_FILE_NAME),
@@ -238,6 +239,7 @@ fn open_or_create_database_unchecked(
             max_number_of_tasks: 1_000_000,
             index_growth_amount: byte_unit::Byte::from_str("10GiB").unwrap().get_bytes() as usize,
             index_count: DEFAULT_INDEX_COUNT,
+            instance_features,
         })?)
     };
 
diff --git a/meilisearch/src/option.rs b/meilisearch/src/option.rs
index 0511b5033..eaf96ee0c 100644
--- a/meilisearch/src/option.rs
+++ b/meilisearch/src/option.rs
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ use std::{env, fmt, fs};
 
 use byte_unit::{Byte, ByteError};
 use clap::Parser;
+use meilisearch_types::features::InstanceTogglableFeatures;
 use meilisearch_types::milli::update::IndexerConfig;
 use rustls::server::{
     AllowAnyAnonymousOrAuthenticatedClient, AllowAnyAuthenticatedClient, ServerSessionMemoryCache,
@@ -486,6 +487,10 @@ impl Opt {
             Ok(None)
         }
     }
+
+    pub(crate) fn to_instance_features(&self) -> InstanceTogglableFeatures {
+        InstanceTogglableFeatures { metrics: self.experimental_enable_metrics }
+    }
 }
 
 #[derive(Debug, Default, Clone, Parser, Deserialize)]