diff --git a/brozzler/metrics.py b/brozzler/metrics.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5203c51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/brozzler/metrics.py
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+from typing import Optional
+
+"""
+from http_sd_registry.client import (
+    Client,
+    Env,
+    Registration,
+    Scheme,
+    format_self_target,
+)
+from http_sd_registry.config import ClientConfig
+"""
+from prometheus_client import Counter, Gauge, Histogram, start_http_server
+
+# fmt: off
+brozzler_pages_crawled = Counter("brozzler_pages_crawled", "number of pages visited by brozzler")
+brozzler_page_processing_duration_seconds = Histogram("brozzler_page_processing_duration_seconds", "time spent processing a page in brozzler")
+brozzler_outlinks_found = Counter("brozzler_urls_found", "number of outlinks found by brozzler")
+brozzler_last_page_crawled_time = Gauge("brozzler_last_page_crawled_time", "time of last page visit")
+brozzler_in_progress_pages = Gauge("brozzler_in_progress_pages", "number of pages currently processing with brozzler")
+brozzler_resources_requested = Counter("brozzler_resources_requested", "number of resources requested", labelnames=["resource_type"])
+brozzler_resources_fetched = Counter("brozzler_resources_fetched", "number of resources fetched", labelnames=["resource_type", "status_code"])
+brozzler_resources_size_total = Counter("brozzler_resources_size_total", "total size of resources fetched", labelnames=["resource_type"])
+brozzler_resources_fetch_time = Counter("brozzler_resources_fetch_time", "time spent fetching resources", labelnames=["resource_type"])
+brozzler_ydl_urls_checked = Counter("brozzler_ydl_urls_checked", "count of urls checked by brozzler yt-dlp")
+brozzler_ydl_download_attempts= Counter("brozzler_ydl_download_attempts", "count of download attempted by brozzler yt-dlp")
+brozzler_ydl_download_successes= Counter("brozzler_ydl_download_successes", "count of downloads completed by brozzler yt-dlp")
+# fmt: on
+
+
+def register_prom_metrics(
+    registry_url: Optional[str] = None, metrics_port: int = 8888, env: Env = Env.qa
+):
+    # Start metrics endpoint for scraping
+    start_http_server(metrics_port)
+
+    if registry_url is None:
+        return
+
+    config = ClientConfig(server_url_base=registry_url)
+    client = Client(config)
+    target = format_self_target(scrape_port=metrics_port)
+    registration = Registration(
+        target=target,
+        env=env,
+        scheme=Scheme.http,
+    )
+    client.keep_registered_threaded(registration)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c275b2b..edca942 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ setuptools.setup(
         "jinja2>=2.10",
         "cryptography>=2.3",
         "python-magic>=0.4.15",
+        "prometheus-client>=0.20.0",
+        "prometheus-async>=22.2.0",
     ],
     extras_require={
         "yt-dlp": ["yt-dlp==2024.7.25"],