diff --git a/server/src/application.rs b/server/src/application.rs
index 9516624991..44cd004061 100644
--- a/server/src/application.rs
+++ b/server/src/application.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ use observability_deps::tracing::info;
 use query::exec::Executor;
 use write_buffer::config::WriteBufferConfigFactory;
 
-use crate::JobRegistry;
+use crate::{job::JobRegistryMetrics, JobRegistry};
 
 /// A container for application-global resources
 /// shared between server and all DatabaseInstances
@@ -28,13 +28,20 @@ impl ApplicationState {
         let num_threads = num_worker_threads.unwrap_or_else(num_cpus::get);
         info!(%num_threads, "using specified number of threads per thread pool");
 
+        let metric_registry_v2 = Arc::new(metric::Registry::new());
+
+        let job_registry = Arc::new(JobRegistry::new());
+        metric_registry_v2.register_instrument("job_registry_metrics", || {
+            JobRegistryMetrics::new(Arc::clone(&job_registry))
+        });
+
         Self {
             object_store,
             write_buffer_factory: Arc::new(Default::default()),
             executor: Arc::new(Executor::new(num_threads)),
-            job_registry: Arc::new(JobRegistry::new()),
+            job_registry,
             metric_registry: Arc::new(metrics::MetricRegistry::new()),
-            metric_registry_v2: Arc::new(Default::default()),
+            metric_registry_v2,
         }
     }
 
diff --git a/server/src/job.rs b/server/src/job.rs
index b5ebb6a59b..747951c3ee 100644
--- a/server/src/job.rs
+++ b/server/src/job.rs
@@ -1,7 +1,12 @@
 use data_types::job::Job;
+use metric::{Attributes, MetricKind, Observation};
 use parking_lot::Mutex;
-use std::convert::Infallible;
-use std::sync::Arc;
+use std::{
+    any::Any,
+    collections::{BTreeMap, BTreeSet},
+    convert::Infallible,
+    sync::Arc,
+};
 use tracker::{TaskId, TaskRegistration, TaskRegistryWithHistory, TaskTracker, TrackedFutureExt};
 
 const JOB_HISTORY_SIZE: usize = 1000;
@@ -73,3 +78,71 @@ impl JobRegistry {
         lock.tracked_len()
     }
 }
+
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct JobRegistryMetrics {
+    registry: Arc<JobRegistry>,
+    known: Arc<Mutex<BTreeSet<Attributes>>>,
+}
+
+impl JobRegistryMetrics {
+    pub fn new(registry: Arc<JobRegistry>) -> Self {
+        Self {
+            registry,
+            known: Default::default(),
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl metric::Instrument for JobRegistryMetrics {
+    fn report(&self, reporter: &mut dyn metric::Reporter) {
+        // get known attributes from last round
+        let mut accumulator: BTreeMap<Attributes, u64> = self
+            .known
+            .lock()
+            .iter()
+            .cloned()
+            .map(|attr| (attr, 0))
+            .collect();
+
+        // scan current jobs
+        for job in self.registry.tracked() {
+            let metadata = job.metadata();
+            let status = job.get_status();
+
+            let attr = Attributes::from(&[
+                ("description", metadata.description()),
+                (
+                    "status",
+                    status
+                        .result()
+                        .map(|result| result.name())
+                        .unwrap_or_else(|| status.name()),
+                ),
+            ]);
+
+            accumulator.entry(attr).and_modify(|x| *x += 1).or_insert(1);
+        }
+
+        // remember known attributes
+        {
+            let mut known = self.known.lock();
+            known.extend(accumulator.keys().cloned());
+        }
+
+        // report metrics
+        reporter.start_metric(
+            "influxdb_iox_job_count",
+            "Number of known jobs",
+            MetricKind::U64Gauge,
+        );
+        for (attr, count) in accumulator {
+            reporter.report_observation(&attr, Observation::U64Gauge(count));
+        }
+        reporter.finish_metric();
+    }
+
+    fn as_any(&self) -> &dyn Any {
+        self
+    }
+}
diff --git a/server/src/lib.rs b/server/src/lib.rs
index f19fb46f29..ea9291c659 100644
--- a/server/src/lib.rs
+++ b/server/src/lib.rs
@@ -2427,4 +2427,44 @@ mod tests {
         let provided_rules: ProvidedDatabaseRules = rules.try_into().unwrap();
         provided_rules
     }
+
+    #[tokio::test]
+    async fn job_metrics() {
+        let application = make_application();
+        let server = make_server(Arc::clone(&application));
+
+        let wait_nanos = 1000;
+        let job = application
+            .job_registry()
+            .spawn_dummy_job(vec![wait_nanos], None);
+
+        job.join().await;
+
+        let mut reporter = metric::RawReporter::default();
+        application.metric_registry_v2().report(&mut reporter);
+
+        let observations: Vec<_> = reporter
+            .observations()
+            .iter()
+            .filter(|observation| observation.metric_name == "influxdb_iox_job_count")
+            .collect();
+        assert_eq!(observations.len(), 1);
+
+        let gauge = observations[0];
+        assert_eq!(gauge.kind, metric::MetricKind::U64Gauge);
+        assert_eq!(gauge.observations.len(), 1);
+
+        let (attributes, observation) = &gauge.observations[0];
+        assert_eq!(
+            attributes,
+            &metric::Attributes::from(&[
+                ("description", "Dummy Job, for testing"),
+                ("status", "Success"),
+            ])
+        );
+        assert_eq!(observation, &metric::Observation::U64Gauge(1));
+
+        server.shutdown();
+        server.join().await.unwrap();
+    }
 }