diff --git a/buildman/manager/ephemeral.py b/buildman/manager/ephemeral.py
index 0d1c482e2..931f2e373 100644
--- a/buildman/manager/ephemeral.py
+++ b/buildman/manager/ephemeral.py
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ from trollius import From, coroutine, Return, async
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor
 from urllib3.exceptions import ReadTimeoutError, ProtocolError
 
+from app import metric_queue
 from buildman.manager.basemanager import BaseManager
 from buildman.manager.executor import PopenExecutor, EC2Executor
 from buildman.component.buildcomponent import BuildComponent
@@ -335,6 +336,7 @@ class EphemeralBuilderManager(BaseManager):
 
     try:
       builder_id = yield From(self._executor.start_builder(realm, token, build_uuid))
+      metric_queue.put('EC2BuilderStarted', 1, unit='Count')
     except:
       logger.exception('Exception when starting builder for job: %s', build_uuid)
       raise Return(False, EC2_API_TIMEOUT)
diff --git a/data/queue.py b/data/queue.py
index b787d22be..9b03123d0 100644
--- a/data/queue.py
+++ b/data/queue.py
@@ -127,7 +127,10 @@ class WorkQueue(object):
     params['available_after'] = available_date
 
     with self._transaction_factory(db):
-      return str(QueueItem.create(**params).id)
+      r = str(QueueItem.create(**params).id)
+      if self._metric_queue:
+        self._metric_queue.put('Added', 1, dimensions={'queue': self._queue_name})
+      return r
 
   def get(self, processing_time=300):
     """