diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index c7ff29893..d71bd6e80 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
   <properties>
     <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
     <mockito.version>3.7.7</mockito.version>
+    <opencensus.version>0.28.3</opencensus.version>
   </properties>
 
   <profiles>
@@ -332,6 +333,28 @@
       <artifactId>jgroups-raft</artifactId>
       <version>1.0.0.Final</version>
     </dependency>
+    <!-- OpenCensus used for pushing metrics to stackdriver -->
+    <dependency>
+        <groupId>io.opencensus</groupId>
+        <artifactId>opencensus-contrib-dropwizard</artifactId>      
+        <version>${opencensus.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+        <groupId>io.opencensus</groupId>
+        <artifactId>opencensus-api</artifactId>
+        <version>${opencensus.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+        <groupId>io.opencensus</groupId>
+        <artifactId>opencensus-impl</artifactId>
+        <version>${opencensus.version}</version>
+        <scope>runtime</scope>
+    </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+        <groupId>io.opencensus</groupId>
+        <artifactId>opencensus-exporter-stats-stackdriver</artifactId>
+        <version>${opencensus.version}</version>
+    </dependency>
   </dependencies>
 
   <build>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/zendesk/maxwell/MaxwellConfig.java b/src/main/java/com/zendesk/maxwell/MaxwellConfig.java
index 00be4008d..5a093d961 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/zendesk/maxwell/MaxwellConfig.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/zendesk/maxwell/MaxwellConfig.java
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ protected MaxwellOptionParser buildOptionParser() {
 		parser.section("metrics");
 
 		parser.accepts( "metrics_prefix", "the prefix maxwell will apply to all metrics" ).withRequiredArg();
-		parser.accepts( "metrics_type", "how maxwell metrics will be reported, at least one of slf4j|jmx|http|datadog" ).withRequiredArg();
+		parser.accepts( "metrics_type", "how maxwell metrics will be reported, at least one of slf4j|jmx|http|datadog|stackdriver" ).withRequiredArg();
 		parser.accepts( "metrics_slf4j_interval", "the frequency metrics are emitted to the log, in seconds, when slf4j reporting is configured" ).withRequiredArg();
 		parser.accepts( "metrics_age_slo", "the threshold in seconds for message age service level objective" ).withRequiredArg().ofType(Integer.class);
 		parser.accepts( "http_port", "the port the server will bind to when http reporting is configured" ).withRequiredArg().ofType(Integer.class);
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/zendesk/maxwell/monitoring/MaxwellMetrics.java b/src/main/java/com/zendesk/maxwell/monitoring/MaxwellMetrics.java
index 8d6675fcf..adf8c7099 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/zendesk/maxwell/monitoring/MaxwellMetrics.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/zendesk/maxwell/monitoring/MaxwellMetrics.java
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 import com.zendesk.maxwell.MaxwellContext;
 import io.prometheus.client.CollectorRegistry;
 import io.prometheus.client.dropwizard.DropwizardExports;
+import io.opencensus.exporter.stats.stackdriver.StackdriverStatsExporter;
+
 import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
@@ -20,6 +22,7 @@
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.EnumSet;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import java.util.Collections;
 
 import static com.viafoura.metrics.datadog.DatadogReporter.Expansion.*;
 
@@ -29,6 +32,7 @@ public class MaxwellMetrics implements Metrics {
 	static final String reportingTypeJmx = "jmx";
 	static final String reportingTypeHttp = "http";
 	static final String reportingTypeDataDog = "datadog";
+	static final String reportingTypeStackdriver = "stackdriver";
 
 	private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(MaxwellMetrics.class);
 	private final ArrayList<Reporter> reporters = new ArrayList<>();
@@ -118,6 +122,20 @@ private void setup(MaxwellConfig config) {
 			LOGGER.info("Datadog reporting enabled");
 		}
 
+		if (config.metricsReportingType.contains(reportingTypeStackdriver)) {
+			io.opencensus.metrics.Metrics.getExportComponent().getMetricProducerManager().add(
+				new io.opencensus.contrib.dropwizard.DropWizardMetrics(
+				  Collections.singletonList(this.registry)));
+
+			try {
+				StackdriverStatsExporter.createAndRegister();
+			} catch (java.io.IOException e) {
+				LOGGER.error("Maxwell encountered an error in creating the stackdriver exporter.", e);
+			}
+
+			LOGGER.info("Stackdriver metrics reporter enabled");
+		}
+
 		if (config.metricsReportingType.contains(reportingTypeHttp)) {
 			CollectorRegistry.defaultRegistry.register(new DropwizardExports(this.registry));
 		}