diff --git a/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/insights/workloadInsightDetails/statementInsightDetailsOverviewTab.tsx b/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/insights/workloadInsightDetails/statementInsightDetailsOverviewTab.tsx
index eb52b8000c34..730504e83ee9 100644
--- a/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/insights/workloadInsightDetails/statementInsightDetailsOverviewTab.tsx
+++ b/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/insights/workloadInsightDetails/statementInsightDetailsOverviewTab.tsx
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ export const StatementInsightDetailsOverviewTab: React.FC<
               value={Duration(insightDetails?.elapsedTimeMillis * 1e6)}
             />
             <SummaryCardItem
-              label={"CPU Time"}
+              label={"SQL CPU Time"}
               value={Duration(insightDetails?.cpuSQLNanos)}
             />
             <SummaryCardItem
diff --git a/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/insights/workloadInsightDetails/transactionInsightDetailsOverviewTab.tsx b/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/insights/workloadInsightDetails/transactionInsightDetailsOverviewTab.tsx
index 95c3237cb921..beb164ddec0f 100644
--- a/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/insights/workloadInsightDetails/transactionInsightDetailsOverviewTab.tsx
+++ b/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/insights/workloadInsightDetails/transactionInsightDetailsOverviewTab.tsx
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ the maximum number of statements was reached in the console.`;
                       value={Duration(txnDetails.elapsedTimeMillis * 1e6)}
                     />
                     <SummaryCardItem
-                      label="CPU Time"
+                      label="SQL CPU Time"
                       value={Duration(txnDetails.cpuSQLNanos)}
                     />
                     <SummaryCardItem
diff --git a/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/insights/workloadInsights/util/insightsColumns.tsx b/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/insights/workloadInsights/util/insightsColumns.tsx
index 79acc7397b67..fbc8385561d0 100644
--- a/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/insights/workloadInsights/util/insightsColumns.tsx
+++ b/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/insights/workloadInsights/util/insightsColumns.tsx
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export const insightsColumnLabels = {
   databaseName: "Database Name",
   tableName: "Table Name",
   indexName: "Index Name",
-  cpu: "CPU Time",
+  cpu: "SQL CPU Time",
 };
 
 export type InsightsTableColumnKeys = keyof typeof insightsColumnLabels;
@@ -238,7 +238,8 @@ export const insightsTableTitles: InsightsTableTitleType = {
   },
   cpu: (_: InsightExecEnum) => {
     return makeToolTip(
-      <p>{`CPU Time spent executing within the specified time interval.`}</p>,
+      <p>{`SQL CPU Time spent executing within the specified time interval. It
+      does not include SQL planning time nor KV execution time.`}</p>,
       "cpu",
     );
   },
diff --git a/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/statementDetails/statementDetails.tsx b/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/statementDetails/statementDetails.tsx
index 290204d00cd5..37bb0457ee27 100644
--- a/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/statementDetails/statementDetails.tsx
+++ b/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/statementDetails/statementDetails.tsx
@@ -665,8 +665,8 @@ export class StatementDetails extends React.Component<
     const cpuTimeseries: AlignedData =
       generateCPUTimeseries(statsPerAggregatedTs);
     const cpuOps: Partial<Options> = {
-      axes: [{}, { label: "CPU Time" }],
-      series: [{}, { label: "CPU Time" }],
+      axes: [{}, { label: "SQL CPU Time" }],
+      series: [{}, { label: "SQL CPU Time" }],
       legend: { show: false },
       width: cardWidth,
     };
@@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ export class StatementDetails extends React.Component<
                   )}
                 />
                 <SummaryCardItem
-                  label="CPU Time"
+                  label="SQL CPU Time"
                   value={formatNumberForDisplay(
                     stats?.exec_stats?.cpu_sql_nanos.mean,
                     Duration,
@@ -909,7 +909,7 @@ export class StatementDetails extends React.Component<
             </Col>
             <Col className="gutter-row" span={12}>
               <BarGraphTimeSeries
-                title={`CPU Time${noSamples}`}
+                title={`SQL CPU Time${noSamples}`}
                 alignedData={cpuTimeseries}
                 uPlotOptions={cpuOps}
                 tooltip={unavailableTooltip}
diff --git a/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/statsTableUtil/statsTableUtil.tsx b/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/statsTableUtil/statsTableUtil.tsx
index 7b5da3f938fb..c297ebee023a 100644
--- a/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/statsTableUtil/statsTableUtil.tsx
+++ b/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/statsTableUtil/statsTableUtil.tsx
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ export const statisticsColumnLabels = {
   bytesRead: "Bytes Read",
   clientAddress: "Client IP Address",
   contention: "Contention Time",
-  cpu: "CPU Time",
+  cpu: "SQL CPU Time",
   database: "Database",
   diagnostics: "Diagnostics",
   executionCount: "Execution Count",
@@ -650,8 +650,9 @@ export const statisticsTableTitles: StatisticTableTitleType = {
         content={
           <>
             <p>
-              Average CPU time spent executing within the specified time
-              interval. The gray bar indicates mean CPU time. The blue bar
+              Average SQL CPU time spent executing within the specified time
+              interval. It does not include SQL planning time nor KV execution
+              time. The gray bar indicates mean SQL CPU time. The blue bar
               indicates one standard deviation from the mean.
             </p>
           </>
diff --git a/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/util/sqlActivityConstants.tsx b/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/util/sqlActivityConstants.tsx
index 40ac441708de..83715b6ca419 100644
--- a/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/util/sqlActivityConstants.tsx
+++ b/pkg/ui/workspaces/cluster-ui/src/util/sqlActivityConstants.tsx
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ export function getSortLabel(
     case SqlStatsSortOptions.EXECUTION_COUNT:
       return "Execution Count";
     case SqlStatsSortOptions.CPU_TIME:
-      return "CPU Time";
+      return "SQL CPU Time";
     case SqlStatsSortOptions.P99_STMTS_ONLY:
       return "P99 Latency";
     case SqlStatsSortOptions.CONTENTION_TIME: