diff --git a/tests/metrics/cmd/checkmetrics/ci_worker/checkmetrics-json-qemu-kata-metric8.toml b/tests/metrics/cmd/checkmetrics/ci_worker/checkmetrics-json-qemu-kata-metric8.toml
index e599ee2657..5ce5802a66 100644
--- a/tests/metrics/cmd/checkmetrics/ci_worker/checkmetrics-json-qemu-kata-metric8.toml
+++ b/tests/metrics/cmd/checkmetrics/ci_worker/checkmetrics-json-qemu-kata-metric8.toml
@@ -45,3 +45,16 @@ checktype = "mean"
 midval = 3677280.0
 minpercent = 25.0
 maxpercent = 25.0
+
+[[metric]]
+name = "blogbench"
+type = "json"
+description = "measure container average of blogbench write"
+# Min and Max values to set a 'range' that
+# the median of the CSV Results data must fall
+# within (inclusive)
+checkvar = ".\"blogbench\".Results | .[] | .write.Result"
+checktype = "mean"
+midval = 1639.0
+minpercent = 20.0
+maxpercent = 20.0