diff --git a/middleware/rate-limit.js b/middleware/rate-limit.js
index 7dbfad770e0b..e4691e6bba27 100644
--- a/middleware/rate-limit.js
+++ b/middleware/rate-limit.js
@@ -15,10 +15,18 @@ export default rateLimit({
   // (and not following the redirect to `/en`) at roughly 200k per minute.
   max: 100,
 
+  // Return rate limit info in the `RateLimit-*` headers
+  standardHeaders: true,
+  // Disable the `X-RateLimit-*` headers
+  legacyHeaders: false,
+
   handler: (request, response, next, options) => {
     const ip = request.headers['x-forwarded-for'] || request.ip
     const tags = [`url:${request.url}`, `ip:${ip}`]
-    statsd.increment('rate_limit', 1, tags)
+    statsd.increment('middleware.rate_limit', 1, tags)
+    // This is temporary until we fully understand fully that the
+    // rate limiter really is working in production.
+    response.setHeader('x-soft-rate-limit', JSON.stringify(options.store.hits))
     // NOTE! At the time of writing, the actual rate limiting is disabled!
     // At least we can start recording how often this happens in Datadog.
     // The following line is commented out and replaced with `next()`