diff --git a/pkg/sentry/platform/kvm/machine.go b/pkg/sentry/platform/kvm/machine.go
index 365e94b1e..b427caf21 100644
--- a/pkg/sentry/platform/kvm/machine.go
+++ b/pkg/sentry/platform/kvm/machine.go
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ var (
 		"/kvm/host_exits",
 		metric.Uint64Metadata{
 			Cumulative:  true,
-			Description: "The number of times the sentry performed a host to guest world switch.",
+			Description: "KVM host-to-guest world switch by Sentry.",
 		})
 
 	// userExitCounter is a metric that tracks how many times the sentry has
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ var (
 		"/kvm/user_exits",
 		metric.Uint64Metadata{
 			Cumulative:  true,
-			Description: "The number of times the sentry has had an exit from userspace.",
+			Description: "KVM sentry exits from userspace.",
 		})
 
 	// interruptCounter is a metric that tracks how many times execution returned
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ var (
 		"/kvm/interrupts",
 		metric.Uint64Metadata{
 			Cumulative:  true,
-			Description: "The number of times the signal handler was invoked.",
+			Description: "KVM signal handler invocations.",
 		})
 
 	// mmapCallCounter is a metric that tracks how many times the function
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ var (
 		"/kvm/mmap_calls",
 		metric.Uint64Metadata{
 			Cumulative:  true,
-			Description: "The number of times seccompMmapSyscall has been called.",
+			Description: "KVM seccompMmapSyscall calls.",
 		})
 
 	// getVCPUCounter is a metric that tracks how many times different paths of
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ var (
 		"/kvm/get_vcpu",
 		metric.Uint64Metadata{
 			Cumulative:  true,
-			Description: "The number of times that machine.Get() was called, split by path the function took.",
+			Description: "KVM machine.Get() calls per CPU acquisition path.",
 			Fields: []metric.Field{
 				metric.NewField("acquisition_type", &getVCPUAcquisitionFastReused, &getVCPUAcquisitionReused, &getVCPUAcquisitionUnused, &getVCPUAcquisitionStolen),
 			},
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ var (
 	// asInvalidateDuration are durations of calling addressSpace.invalidate().
 	asInvalidateDuration = KVMProfiling.MustCreateNewTimerMetric("/kvm/address_space_invalidate",
 		metric.NewExponentialBucketer(15, uint64(time.Nanosecond*100), 1, 2),
-		"Duration of calling addressSpace.invalidate().")
+		"Duration of KVM addressSpace.invalidate().")
 )
 
 // vCPU is a single KVM vCPU.
diff --git a/test/metricsviz/metricsviz.go b/test/metricsviz/metricsviz.go
index 86e2a014c..0f7e155d6 100644
--- a/test/metricsviz/metricsviz.go
+++ b/test/metricsviz/metricsviz.go
@@ -89,10 +89,7 @@ type TimeSeries struct {
 // String returns the name of the timeseries.
 func (ts *TimeSeries) String() string {
 	if len(ts.FieldValues) == 0 {
-		if desc := strings.TrimSuffix(ts.Metric.Metadata.GetDescription(), "."); desc != "" {
-			return desc
-		}
-		return string(ts.Metric.Name)
+		return ts.ChartTitle()
 	}
 	orderedFields := make([]string, 0, len(ts.FieldValues))
 	for f := range ts.FieldValues {
@@ -114,6 +111,15 @@ func (ts *TimeSeries) String() string {
 	return b.String()
 }
 
+// ChartTitle returns a string appropriate for using as a chart title when
+// this timeseries is the only metric being shown on a chart.
+func (ts *TimeSeries) ChartTitle() string {
+	if desc := strings.TrimSuffix(ts.Metric.Metadata.GetDescription(), "."); desc != "" {
+		return desc
+	}
+	return string(ts.Metric.Name)
+}
+
 // Data maps metrics and field values to timeseries.
 type Data struct {
 	startTime       time.Time
@@ -439,7 +445,7 @@ func (d *Data) ToHTML(opts HTMLOptions) (string, error) {
 			chartName := string(maf.MetricName)
 			c, ok := chartNameToChart[chartName]
 			if !ok {
-				c = &chart{Title: fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s", chartTitleRoot, ts.String())}
+				c = &chart{Title: fmt.Sprintf("%s: %s", chartTitleRoot, ts.ChartTitle())}
 				chartNameToChart[chartName] = c
 				chartNames = append(chartNames, chartName)
 			}
@@ -642,19 +648,42 @@ func Parse(logs string, hasPrefix bool) (*Data, error) {
 					// Ignore this column name; it is the column indicator for the per-line checksum.
 					continue
 				}
-				// If metric fields were to be implemented, they would be part of
-				// the header cell here. For now we just assume that the header
-				// cells are just metric names.
-				name := MetricName(cell)
-				if _, ok := metricsMeta[name]; !ok {
+				var name MetricName
+				var fieldCombination string
+				leftBracketIndex := strings.Index(cell, "[")
+				if leftBracketIndex != -1 {
+					name = MetricName(cell[:leftBracketIndex])
+					rightBracketIndex := strings.Index(cell, "]")
+					if rightBracketIndex == -1 {
+						return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid header line: %q (%q has '[' bracket but no closing ']' at the end)", line, cell)
+					}
+					fieldCombination = cell[leftBracketIndex+1 : rightBracketIndex]
+				} else {
+					name = MetricName(cell)
+				}
+				metricMeta, ok := metricsMeta[name]
+				if !ok {
 					return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid header line: %q (unknown metric %q)", line, name)
 				}
-				maf := MetricAndFields{MetricName: name}
+				maf := MetricAndFields{MetricName: name, FieldValues: fieldCombination}
 				header = append(header, maf)
-				data.data[maf] = &TimeSeries{Metric: metricsMeta[name]}
-			}
-			if len(header) != len(metricsMeta) {
-				return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid header line: %q (header has %d metrics (%+v), but %d metrics were found in metadata: %v)", line, len(header), header, len(metricsMeta), metricsMeta)
+				var fieldValues map[string]string
+				if fieldCombination != "" {
+					fieldsMeta := metricMeta.Metadata.GetFields()
+					fieldValuesSplit := strings.Split(fieldCombination, ",")
+					if len(fieldValuesSplit) != len(fieldsMeta) {
+						return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid header line: %q (metric %q has %d fields (%v), but %d field values were found in column header: %q)", line, name, len(fieldsMeta), fieldsMeta, len(fieldValuesSplit), fieldCombination)
+					}
+					fieldValues = make(map[string]string, len(fieldsMeta))
+					for i, fieldMeta := range fieldsMeta {
+						fieldValue := fieldValuesSplit[i]
+						if !slices.Contains(fieldMeta.GetAllowedValues(), fieldValue) {
+							return nil, fmt.Errorf("invalid header line: %q (metric %q has field %q that the header column claims to be %q, which is not in the allowed values: %v)", line, name, fieldMeta.GetFieldName(), fieldValue, fieldMeta.GetAllowedValues())
+						}
+						fieldValues[fieldMeta.GetFieldName()] = fieldValue
+					}
+				}
+				data.data[maf] = &TimeSeries{Metric: metricsMeta[name], FieldValues: fieldValues}
 			}
 			continue
 		}
diff --git a/test/metricsviz/metricsviz_cli/metricsviz_cli_test.go b/test/metricsviz/metricsviz_cli/metricsviz_cli_test.go
index 47f65353c..d2fd54034 100644
--- a/test/metricsviz/metricsviz_cli/metricsviz_cli_test.go
+++ b/test/metricsviz/metricsviz_cli/metricsviz_cli_test.go
@@ -38,10 +38,15 @@ func TestMetricsvizCLI(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("Failed to find metricsviz_cli: %v", err)
 	}
 	const testMetricName = "/metricsviz_cli_test/counter"
+	testVal1 := &metric.FieldValue{Value: "val1"}
+	testVal2 := &metric.FieldValue{Value: "val2"}
+	testVal3 := &metric.FieldValue{Value: "val3"}
+	testVals := []*metric.FieldValue{testVal1, testVal2, testVal3}
 	testMetric := metric.MustCreateNewUint64Metric(testMetricName, metric.Uint64Metadata{
 		Cumulative:  true,
 		Sync:        true,
 		Description: fmt.Sprintf("test counter for %s", t.Name()),
+		Fields:      []metric.Field{metric.NewField("field1", testVals...)},
 	})
 	if err := metric.Initialize(); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("Failed to initialize metrics: %v", err)
@@ -68,7 +73,7 @@ func TestMetricsvizCLI(t *testing.T) {
 			waitCtx, waitCancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 25*time.Millisecond)
 			defer waitCancel()
 			for waitCtx.Err() == nil {
-				testMetric.Increment()
+				testMetric.Increment(testVals[rand.IntN(len(testVals))])
 				select {
 				case <-waitCtx.Done():
 				case <-time.After(time.Millisecond):