diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9eb80a6a29..9c4f9960e0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@
 - Remove deprecated OpenTelemetry integration classes and the legacy `SentrySpanStorage` ([#6243](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/6243))
 - Decide whether foregrounding the app starts a new session on a monotonic clock instead of the wall clock, so that a device time change no longer starts a session that should have been resumed, or resumes one that should have ended. This affects session counts ([#6096](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/6096))
 
+### Improvements
+
+- Promote the metrics capture API from experimental to stable ([#6425](https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/6425))
+
 ## 8.62.0
 
 ### Improvements
diff --git a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/SentryClient.java b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/SentryClient.java
index 9c019df1f5..4b435e7d38 100644
--- a/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/SentryClient.java
+++ b/sentry/src/main/java/io/sentry/SentryClient.java
@@ -1350,7 +1350,6 @@ public void captureBatchedLogEvents(final @NotNull SentryLogEvents logEvents) {
     }
   }
 
-  @ApiStatus.Experimental
   @Override
   public void captureMetric(
       @Nullable SentryMetricsEvent metricsEvent,