diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6179ac4a0..85d7e81d8 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 ## [master]
 
 ### Added
+
+- [api] add http_request and http_request_error metrics counter.
+
 ### Changed
 ### Removed
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/src/Monocle/Main.hs b/src/Monocle/Main.hs
index b594ef848..4c8511c00 100644
--- a/src/Monocle/Main.hs
+++ b/src/Monocle/Main.hs
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 -- | The Monocle entry point.
 module Monocle.Main (run, rootServer, ApiConfig (..), defaultApiConfig, RootAPI) where
 
+import Control.Exception (catch, throwIO)
+import Data.ByteString qualified as BS
 import Data.List qualified
 import Data.Text qualified as Text
 import Data.Text.IO qualified as Text
@@ -87,6 +89,25 @@ healthMiddleware app' req resp
   | Wai.rawPathInfo req == "/health" = resp $ Wai.responseLBS HTTP.status200 mempty "api is running\n"
   | otherwise = app' req resp
 
+-- | This middleware keeps track of user request
+metricMiddleware :: Wai.Application -> Wai.Application
+metricMiddleware app' req resp = handleExceptions $ app' req handleResp
+ where
+  basePath = Wai.rawPathInfo req
+  handleResp appResp
+    | -- crawler or static file request
+      "/api/2/crawler/" `BS.isPrefixOf` basePath || not ("/api/2/" `BS.isPrefixOf` basePath) =
+        resp appResp
+    | otherwise = do
+        incCounter $ case HTTP.statusCode (Wai.responseStatus appResp) of
+          code | code >= 200 && code < 300 -> monocleHTTPRequestCounter
+          _ -> monocleHTTPRequestErrorCounter
+        resp appResp
+  handleExceptions act =
+    act `catch` \(e :: SomeException) -> do
+      incCounter monocleHTTPRequestErrorCounter
+      throwIO e
+
 data ApiConfig = ApiConfig
   { port :: Int
   , elasticUrl :: Text
@@ -170,6 +191,7 @@ run' ApiConfig {..} aplogger = E.runConcurrent $ runLoggerEffect do
             . monitoringMiddleware
             . healthMiddleware
             . staticMiddleware
+            . metricMiddleware
     logInfo "SystemReady" ["workspace" .= length workspaces, "port" .= port, "elastic" .= elasticUrl]
 
     appEnv <- E.withEffToIO $ \effToIO -> do
diff --git a/src/Monocle/Prelude.hs b/src/Monocle/Prelude.hs
index 76941d46e..e6df55636 100644
--- a/src/Monocle/Prelude.hs
+++ b/src/Monocle/Prelude.hs
@@ -205,6 +205,8 @@ module Monocle.Prelude (
   incrementCounter,
   httpRequestCounter,
   httpFailureCounter,
+  monocleHTTPRequestCounter,
+  monocleHTTPRequestErrorCounter,
   monocleQueryCheckCounter,
   monocleQueryCounter,
   monocleMetricCounter,
@@ -282,6 +284,16 @@ incrementCounter x l = withLabel x l incCounter
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 -- Global metrics
+{-# NOINLINE monocleHTTPRequestCounter #-}
+monocleHTTPRequestCounter :: Prometheus.Counter
+monocleHTTPRequestCounter =
+  unsafePerformIO $ promRegister $ Prometheus.counter (Info "http_request" "")
+
+{-# NOINLINE monocleHTTPRequestErrorCounter #-}
+monocleHTTPRequestErrorCounter :: Prometheus.Counter
+monocleHTTPRequestErrorCounter =
+  unsafePerformIO $ promRegister $ Prometheus.counter (Info "http_request_error" "")
+
 {-# NOINLINE monocleQueryCheckCounter #-}
 monocleQueryCheckCounter :: Prometheus.Counter
 monocleQueryCheckCounter =