diff --git a/.github/workflows/pattern-metrics.yaml b/.github/workflows/pattern-metrics.yaml
index 4359a43ca..31b65b322 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/pattern-metrics.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/pattern-metrics.yaml
@@ -60,58 +60,12 @@ jobs:
         HIDE_TIME_TO_ANSWER: "True"
         HIDE_LABEL_METRICS: "True"
 
-    - name: Create issue
-      uses: peter-evans/create-issue-from-file@v4
-      with:
-        title: Monthly New Issues Data ${{ env.last_month }}
-        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        content-filepath: ./issue_metrics.md
-        assignees: spier
-  
-  pr-metrics:
-    name: pull request metrics
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-
-    steps:
-
-    - name: Get dates for last month
+    - name: Change markdown file name to prep for a merge
       shell: bash
       run: |
-        # Calculate the first day of the previous month
-        first_day=$(date -d "last month" +%Y-%m-01)
+        mv ./issue_metrics.md ready_to_merge_issues_report.md
 
-        # Calculate the last day of the previous month
-        last_day=$(date -d "$first_day +1 month -1 day" +%Y-%m-%d)
-
-        #Set an environment variable with the date range
-        echo "$first_day..$last_day"
-        echo "last_month=$first_day..$last_day" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-    - name: Check out the code so we can get the CODEOWNERS names
-      uses: actions/checkout@v4
-      with:
-        sparse-checkout: |
-          .github/CODEOWNERS
-        sparse-checkout-cone-mode: false
-
-    - name: Get usernames from CODEOWNERS file
-      shell: bash
-      run: |
-        # open a file called CODEOWNERS and load the content into a variable
-        CODEOWNERS_FILE=$(cat .github/CODEOWNERS)
-        
-        # Extract words from CODEOWNERS that start with @ and convert them into a comma-separated string
-        # ie, "-author:spier -author:zkoppert"
-        # This will be used to filter out these codeowners from certain stats in later steps
-        CODEOWNERS_FILTER=$(echo $CODEOWNERS_FILE | grep -o "@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]*" | sed 's/@/-author:/g' | sort | uniq | tr '\n' ' ')
-
-        # Print usernames to terminal for easy debugging
-        echo "CODEOWNERS_FILTER: $CODEOWNERS_FILTER"
-
-        # Store CODEOWNERS_FILTERto GitHub Action environment (not permanent)
-        echo "CODEOWNERS_FILTER=$CODEOWNERS_FILTER" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
-
-    - name: Run issue-metrics tool
+    - name: Run issue-metrics tool for PRs
       uses: github/issue-metrics@v2
       env:
         GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
@@ -119,10 +73,18 @@ jobs:
         HIDE_TIME_TO_ANSWER: "True"
         HIDE_LABEL_METRICS: "True"
 
+    - name: Merge files for report
+      shell: bash
+      run: |
+        echo $'\n\n---\n\n' > hr.md
+        cat ready_to_merge_issues_report.md hr.md issue_metrics.md > all.md
+
     - name: Create issue
       uses: peter-evans/create-issue-from-file@v4
       with:
-        title: Monthly New Pull Request Data ${{ env.last_month }}
+        title: Monthly Metrics: New Issues + New Pull Requests ${{ env.last_month }}
         token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-        content-filepath: ./issue_metrics.md
+        content-filepath: ./all.md
         assignees: spier
+        labels: |
+            community metrics