This application discloses a communication method and a communications apparatus, and relates to the communications field. The communication method includes: obtaining, by a network data analytics function network element, an application information target value of a network slice in a specified location area; obtaining, by the network data analytics function network element, a network running information target value of the network slice in the specified location area based on an association relationship between application information and network running information and the application information target value, where the association relationship is used to describe an association relationship between application information and network running information when a communications service provided by the network slice in the specified location area meets a service level agreement SLA; and sending, by the network data analytics function network element, the network running information target value to an operation, administration, and maintenance server.