diff --git a/extensions/notification/queueProcessor/QueueProcessor.js b/extensions/notification/queueProcessor/QueueProcessor.js
index e1bbabff4..86f4011ab 100644
--- a/extensions/notification/queueProcessor/QueueProcessor.js
+++ b/extensions/notification/queueProcessor/QueueProcessor.js
@@ -27,6 +27,29 @@ function onQueueProcessorEventProcessed(destination, eventType) {
     });
 }
 
+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'],
+});
+
+
+/**
+ * Contains methods to incrememt different metrics
+ * @typedef {Object} MetricsHandler
+ * @property {CounterInc} dataReplicationStatus - Increments the replication status metric for data operation
+ * @property {CounterInc} metadataReplicationStatus - Increments the replication status metric for metadata operation
+ * @property {CounterInc} dataReplicationBytes - Increments the replication bytes metric for data operation
+ * @property {CounterInc} metadataReplicationBytes - Increments the replication bytes metric for metadata operation
+ * @property {CounterInc} sourceDataBytes - Increments the source data bytes metric
+ * @property {CounterInc} reads - Increments the read metric
+ * @property {CounterInc} writes - Increments the write metric
+ * @property {HistogramObserve} timeElapsed - Observes the time elapsed metric
+ */
+const metricsHandler = {
+    lag: wrapGaugeSet(kafkaLagMetric, defaultLabels),
+};
+
 class QueueProcessor extends EventEmitter {
     /**
      * Create a queue processor object to activate notification from a
@@ -329,6 +352,19 @@ class QueueProcessor extends EventEmitter {
      */
     async handleMetrics(res, log) {
         log.debug('metrics requested');
+
+        if (this.repConfig.queueProcessor.logConsumerMetricsIntervalS && this._consumer) {
+            // 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 => {
+                metricsHandler.lag({
+                    partition,
+                    serviceName: this.serviceName,
+                }, lagStats[partition]);
+            });
+        }
+
         res.writeHead(200, {
             'Content-Type': ZenkoMetrics.asPrometheusContentType(),
         });
diff --git a/extensions/replication/queueProcessor/QueueProcessor.js b/extensions/replication/queueProcessor/QueueProcessor.js
index 025d2e8d6..cb2e59b48 100644
--- a/extensions/replication/queueProcessor/QueueProcessor.js
+++ b/extensions/replication/queueProcessor/QueueProcessor.js
@@ -1029,7 +1029,7 @@ class QueueProcessor extends EventEmitter {
     static async handleMetrics(res, log) {
         log.debug('metrics requested');
 
-        if (this.repConfig.queueProcessor.logConsumerMetricsIntervalS) {
+        if (this.repConfig.queueProcessor.logConsumerMetricsIntervalS && this._consumer) {
             // consumer stats lag is on a different update cycle so we need to
             // update the metrics when requested
             const lagStats = this._consumer.consumerStats.lag;
diff --git a/extensions/replication/replicationStatusProcessor/ReplicationStatusProcessor.js b/extensions/replication/replicationStatusProcessor/ReplicationStatusProcessor.js
index ab05e05ea..14dd84066 100644
--- a/extensions/replication/replicationStatusProcessor/ReplicationStatusProcessor.js
+++ b/extensions/replication/replicationStatusProcessor/ReplicationStatusProcessor.js
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ class ReplicationStatusProcessor {
         log.debug('metrics requested');
         const metrics = await ZenkoMetrics.asPrometheus();
 
-        if (this.repConfig.queueProcessor.logConsumerMetricsIntervalS) {
+        if (this.repConfig.queueProcessor.logConsumerMetricsIntervalS && this._consumer) {
             // consumer stats lag is on a different update cycle so we need to
             // update the metrics when requested
             const lagStats = this._consumer.consumerStats.lag;