diff --git a/extensions/replication/queueProcessor/QueueProcessor.js b/extensions/replication/queueProcessor/QueueProcessor.js
index ec1eddfd7..025d2e8d6 100644
--- a/extensions/replication/queueProcessor/QueueProcessor.js
+++ b/extensions/replication/queueProcessor/QueueProcessor.js
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ const BucketQueueEntry = require('../../../lib/models/BucketQueueEntry');
 const ActionQueueEntry = require('../../../lib/models/ActionQueueEntry');
 const MetricsProducer = require('../../../lib/MetricsProducer');
 const libConstants = require('../../../lib/constants');
-const { wrapCounterInc, wrapHistogramObserve } = require('../../../lib/util/metrics');
+const { wrapCounterInc, wrapHistogramObserve, wrapGaugeSet } = require('../../../lib/util/metrics');
 const { http: HttpAgent, https: HttpsAgent } = require('httpagent');
 
 const {
@@ -79,6 +79,12 @@ const metadataReplicationBytesMetric = ZenkoMetrics.createCounter({
     labelNames: ['origin', 'serviceName', 'location'],
 });
 
+const kafkaLagMetric = ZenkoMetrics.createGauge({
+    name: 's3_replication_queue_lag',
+    help: 'Number of update entries waiting to be consumed from the Kafka topic',
+    labelNames: ['origin', 'containerName', 'partition', 'serviceName'],
+});
+
 const sourceDataBytesMetric = ZenkoMetrics.createCounter({
     name: 's3_replication_source_data_bytes_total',
     help: 'Total number of data bytes read from replication source',
@@ -133,6 +139,7 @@ const metricsHandler = {
     dataReplicationBytes: wrapCounterInc(dataReplicationBytesMetric, defaultLabels),
     metadataReplicationBytes: wrapCounterInc(metadataReplicationBytesMetric, defaultLabels),
     sourceDataBytes: wrapCounterInc(sourceDataBytesMetric, defaultLabels),
+    lag: wrapGaugeSet(kafkaLagMetric, defaultLabels),
     reads: wrapCounterInc(readMetric, defaultLabels),
     writes: wrapCounterInc(writeMetric, defaultLabels),
     timeElapsed: wrapHistogramObserve(timeElapsedMetric, defaultLabels),
diff --git a/extensions/replication/replicationStatusProcessor/ReplicationStatusProcessor.js b/extensions/replication/replicationStatusProcessor/ReplicationStatusProcessor.js
index 4c366473c..ab05e05ea 100644
--- a/extensions/replication/replicationStatusProcessor/ReplicationStatusProcessor.js
+++ b/extensions/replication/replicationStatusProcessor/ReplicationStatusProcessor.js
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ const constants = require('../../../lib/constants');
 const {
     wrapCounterInc,
     wrapHistogramObserve,
+    wrapGaugeSet,
 } = require('../../../lib/util/metrics');
 
 /**
@@ -60,6 +61,12 @@ const loadMetricHandlers = jsutil.once(repConfig => {
         labelNames: ['origin', 'replicationStatus'],
     });
 
+    const kafkaLagMetric = ZenkoMetrics.createGauge({
+        name: 's3_replication_status_queue_lag',
+        help: 'Number of update entries waiting to be consumed from the Kafka topic',
+        labelNames: ['origin', 'containerName', 'partition', 'serviceName'],
+    });
+
     const replicationStatusDurationSeconds = ZenkoMetrics.createHistogram({
         name: 's3_replication_status_process_duration_seconds',
         help: 'Duration of replication status processing',
@@ -138,6 +145,7 @@ const loadMetricHandlers = jsutil.once(repConfig => {
     };
     return {
         status: wrapCounterInc(replicationStatusMetric, defaultLabels),
+        lag: wrapGaugeSet(kafkaLagMetric, defaultLabels),
         statusDuration: wrapHistogramObserve(replicationStatusDurationSeconds,
             defaultLabels),
         replicationLatency: wrapHistogramObserve(replicationLatency,
@@ -552,6 +560,19 @@ class ReplicationStatusProcessor {
     async handleMetrics(res, log) {
         log.debug('metrics requested');
         const metrics = await ZenkoMetrics.asPrometheus();
+
+        if (this.repConfig.queueProcessor.logConsumerMetricsIntervalS) {
+            // consumer stats lag is on a different update cycle so we need to
+            // update the metrics when requested
+            const lagStats = this._consumer.consumerStats.lag;
+            Object.keys(lagStats).forEach(partition => {
+                this.metricHandlers.lag({
+                    partition,
+                    serviceName: this.serviceName,
+                }, lagStats[partition]);
+            });
+        }
+
         res.writeHead(200, {
             'Content-Type': ZenkoMetrics.asPrometheusContentType(),
         });