diff --git a/proxy/src/main/java/org/apache/rocketmq/proxy/service/message/LocalRemotingCommand.java b/proxy/src/main/java/org/apache/rocketmq/proxy/service/message/LocalRemotingCommand.java
index 25066ea5305..1d7b10e2cea 100644
--- a/proxy/src/main/java/org/apache/rocketmq/proxy/service/message/LocalRemotingCommand.java
+++ b/proxy/src/main/java/org/apache/rocketmq/proxy/service/message/LocalRemotingCommand.java
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
  */
 package org.apache.rocketmq.proxy.service.message;
 
+import com.google.common.base.Stopwatch;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import org.apache.rocketmq.remoting.CommandCustomHeader;
 import org.apache.rocketmq.remoting.protocol.LanguageCode;
@@ -31,6 +32,8 @@ public static LocalRemotingCommand createRequestCommand(int code, CommandCustomH
         cmd.setExtFields(new HashMap<>());
         setCmdVersion(cmd);
         cmd.makeCustomHeaderToNet();
+        // Local requests bypass NettyDecoder, so initialize the processing timer explicitly.
+        cmd.setProcessTimer(Stopwatch.createStarted());
         return cmd;
     }
 }
diff --git a/proxy/src/test/java/org/apache/rocketmq/proxy/service/message/LocalRemotingCommandTest.java b/proxy/src/test/java/org/apache/rocketmq/proxy/service/message/LocalRemotingCommandTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..121f8d5e44f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/proxy/src/test/java/org/apache/rocketmq/proxy/service/message/LocalRemotingCommandTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+package org.apache.rocketmq.proxy.service.message;
+
+import io.netty.channel.ChannelFuture;
+import io.netty.channel.DefaultChannelPromise;
+import io.netty.util.concurrent.ImmediateEventExecutor;
+import io.opentelemetry.api.common.Attributes;
+import io.opentelemetry.api.metrics.LongHistogram;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicBoolean;
+import org.apache.rocketmq.common.metrics.NopLongHistogram;
+import org.apache.rocketmq.proxy.service.channel.SimpleChannel;
+import org.apache.rocketmq.remoting.metrics.RemotingMetricsManager;
+import org.apache.rocketmq.remoting.netty.NettyRemotingAbstract;
+import org.apache.rocketmq.remoting.protocol.RemotingCommand;
+import org.apache.rocketmq.remoting.protocol.RequestCode;
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertNotNull;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+public class LocalRemotingCommandTest {
+
+    @Test
+    public void testCreateRequestCommandShouldStartProcessTimer() {
+        LocalRemotingCommand command = LocalRemotingCommand.createRequestCommand(RequestCode.SEND_MESSAGE, null, "JAVA");
+
+        assertNotNull(command.getProcessTimer());
+        assertTrue(command.getProcessTimer().isRunning());
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testWriteResponseShouldRecordLatencyForLocalRemotingCommand() {
+        LocalRemotingCommand command = LocalRemotingCommand.createRequestCommand(RequestCode.SEND_MESSAGE, null, "JAVA");
+        RemotingCommand response = RemotingCommand.createResponseCommand(0, null);
+        AtomicBoolean latencyRecorded = new AtomicBoolean(false);
+        LongHistogram rpcLatency = new NopLongHistogram() {
+            @Override
+            public void record(long value, Attributes attributes) {
+                latencyRecorded.set(true);
+            }
+        };
+        RemotingMetricsManager remotingMetricsManager = new RemotingMetricsManager() {
+            @Override
+            public LongHistogram getRpcLatency() {
+                return rpcLatency;
+            }
+        };
+        SimpleChannel channel = new SimpleChannel("127.0.0.1:8080", "127.0.0.1:8081") {
+            @Override
+            public ChannelFuture writeAndFlush(Object msg) {
+                return new DefaultChannelPromise(this, ImmediateEventExecutor.INSTANCE).setSuccess();
+            }
+        };
+
+        NettyRemotingAbstract.writeResponse(
+            channel,
+            command,
+            response,
+            null,
+            remotingMetricsManager
+        );
+
+        assertTrue(latencyRecorded.get());
+    }
+}