diff --git a/plugins/metrics/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/response/HostMetricsResponse.java b/plugins/metrics/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/response/HostMetricsResponse.java
index 7a557e36ac6..30f7e06ce58 100644
--- a/plugins/metrics/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/response/HostMetricsResponse.java
+++ b/plugins/metrics/src/main/java/org/apache/cloudstack/response/HostMetricsResponse.java
@@ -138,6 +138,10 @@ public class HostMetricsResponse extends HostResponse {
         }
     }
 
+    public String getCpuAllocatedGhz() {
+        return cpuAllocated;
+    }
+
     public void setMemTotal(final Long memTotal) {
         if (memTotal != null) {
             this.memTotal = String.format("%.2f GB", memTotal / (1024.0 * 1024.0 * 1024.0));
@@ -182,13 +186,13 @@ public class HostMetricsResponse extends HostResponse {
 
     public void setCpuAllocatedThreshold(final String cpuAllocated, final Double threshold) {
         if (cpuAllocated != null && threshold != null) {
-            this.cpuAllocatedThresholdExceeded = Double.valueOf(cpuAllocated.replace("%", "")) > (100.0 * threshold );
+            this.cpuAllocatedThresholdExceeded = parseCPU(cpuAllocated) > (100.0 * threshold );
         }
     }
 
     public void setCpuAllocatedDisableThreshold(final String cpuAllocated, final Float threshold) {
         if (cpuAllocated != null && threshold != null) {
-            this.cpuAllocatedDisableThresholdExceeded = Double.valueOf(cpuAllocated.replace("%", "")) > (100.0 * threshold);
+            this.cpuAllocatedDisableThresholdExceeded = parseCPU(cpuAllocated) > (100.0 * threshold);
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/plugins/metrics/src/test/java/org/apache/cloudstack/response/HostMetricsResponseTest.java b/plugins/metrics/src/test/java/org/apache/cloudstack/response/HostMetricsResponseTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4e6f35ab6e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/plugins/metrics/src/test/java/org/apache/cloudstack/response/HostMetricsResponseTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package org.apache.cloudstack.response;
+
+import org.junit.Assert;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import com.cloud.utils.exception.CloudRuntimeException;
+
+public class HostMetricsResponseTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void testSetCpuAllocatedWithZeroCpu() {
+        final HostMetricsResponse hostResponse = new HostMetricsResponse();
+        hostResponse.setCpuAllocated("50.25%", 0, 1000L);
+        Assert.assertEquals("0.00 Ghz", hostResponse.getCpuAllocatedGhz());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testSetCpuAllocatedWithInfiniteCpuAllocated() {
+        final HostMetricsResponse hostResponse = new HostMetricsResponse();
+        hostResponse.setCpuAllocated("∞%", 10, 1000L);
+        Assert.assertEquals("Infinity Ghz", hostResponse.getCpuAllocatedGhz());
+    }
+
+    @Test(expected = CloudRuntimeException.class)
+    public void testSetCpuAllocatedWithInvalidCpu() {
+        final HostMetricsResponse hostResponse = new HostMetricsResponse();
+        hostResponse.setCpuAllocated("abc", 10, 1000L);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testSetCpuAllocatedWithValidCpu() {
+        final HostMetricsResponse hostResponse = new HostMetricsResponse();
+        hostResponse.setCpuAllocated("50.25%", 10, 1000L);
+        Assert.assertEquals("5.03 Ghz", hostResponse.getCpuAllocatedGhz());
+    }
+
+}