diff --git a/cpp/CHANGELOG.md b/cpp/CHANGELOG.md
index 32ea1522f5..09b86893f0 100644
--- a/cpp/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/cpp/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ Please mark all change in change log and use the ticket from JIRA.
 - MS-305 - Add CPU core percent metric
 - MS-310 - Add milvus CPU utilization ratio and CPU/GPU temperature metrics
 - MS-324 - Show error when there is not enough gpu memory to build index
+- MS-328 - Check metric type on server start
 
 ## New Feature
 - MS-180 - Add new mem manager
diff --git a/cpp/src/server/DBWrapper.cpp b/cpp/src/server/DBWrapper.cpp
index 4487a37e19..a84e9a2dd8 100644
--- a/cpp/src/server/DBWrapper.cpp
+++ b/cpp/src/server/DBWrapper.cpp
@@ -66,6 +66,18 @@ DBWrapper::DBWrapper() {
     if(omp_thread > 0) {
         omp_set_num_threads(omp_thread);
         SERVER_LOG_DEBUG << "Specify openmp thread number: " << omp_thread;
+    } else {
+        uint32_t sys_thread_cnt = 8;
+        if(CommonUtil::GetSystemAvailableThreads(sys_thread_cnt)) {
+            omp_thread = (int32_t)ceil(sys_thread_cnt*0.5);
+            omp_set_num_threads(omp_thread);
+        }
+    }
+
+    std::string metric_type = engine_config.GetValue(CONFIG_METRICTYPE, "L2");
+    if(metric_type != "L2" && metric_type != "IP") {
+        std::cout << "ERROR! Illegal metric type: " << metric_type << ", available options: L2 or IP" << std::endl;
+        kill(0, SIGUSR1);
     }
 
     //set archive config
@@ -95,6 +107,7 @@ DBWrapper::DBWrapper() {
         }
     }
 
+    //create db instance
     std::string msg = opt.meta.path;
     try {
         zilliz::milvus::engine::DB::Open(opt, &db_);