diff --git a/kqueen/blueprints/metrics/helpers.py b/kqueen/blueprints/metrics/helpers.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e32e39ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kqueen/blueprints/metrics/helpers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+from collections import defaultdict
+from kqueen.models import Organization
+from kqueen.models import User
+from prometheus_client import Gauge
+
+import asyncio
+import logging
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+metrics = {
+    'users_by_namespace': Gauge('users_by_namespace', 'Number of users in namespace', ['namespace']),
+    'users_by_role': Gauge('users_by_role', 'Number of users by role', ['role']),
+    'users_active': Gauge('users_active', 'Number of users by role'),
+    'organization_count': Gauge('organization_count', 'Number of organizations'),
+}
+
+
+class MetricUpdater:
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.data = {}
+
+        self.get_data()
+
+    def update_metrics(self):
+        loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
+        futures = []
+
+        for metric_name, metric in metrics.items():
+
+            update_function_name = 'update_metric_{}'.format(metric_name)
+
+            logger.debug('Updating metric {metric_name}, with function {function}'.format(
+                metric_name=metric_name,
+                function=update_function_name,
+            ))
+
+            try:
+                fnc = getattr(self, update_function_name)
+            except AttributeError:
+                msg = 'Missing update function {function} for metric {metric_name}'.format(
+                    metric_name=metric_name,
+                    function=update_function_name
+                )
+
+                raise Exception(msg)
+
+            # run update function
+            future = loop.run_in_executor(None, fnc, metric)
+            futures.append(future)
+
+        # run all updates
+        asyncio.wait(futures)
+
+    def get_data(self):
+        # users
+        cls = User
+        namespace = None
+
+        sum = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(lambda: 0))
+
+        for obj_id, obj in cls.list(namespace, True).items():
+            user_dict = obj.get_dict(True)
+
+            user_namespace = user_dict['organization']['namespace']
+            user_role = user_dict['role']
+            user_active = user_dict['active']
+
+            sum['namespace'][user_namespace] += 1
+            sum['roles'][user_role] += 1
+            sum['active'][user_active] += 1
+
+        self.data['users'] = sum
+
+        # organizations
+        objs = Organization.list(None, False)
+        self.data['organizations'] = len(objs)
+
+    def update_metric_users_by_namespace(self, metric):
+        for namespace, count in self.data['users']['namespace'].items():
+            metric.labels(namespace).set(count)
+
+    def update_metric_users_by_role(self, metric):
+        for role, count in self.data['users']['roles'].items():
+            metric.labels(role).set(count)
+
+    def update_metric_users_active(self, metric):
+        metric.set(self.data['users']['active'][True])
+
+    def update_metric_organization_count(self, metric):
+        metric.set(self.data['organizations'])
diff --git a/kqueen/blueprints/metrics/test_helpers.py b/kqueen/blueprints/metrics/test_helpers.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..eed41014
--- /dev/null
+++ b/kqueen/blueprints/metrics/test_helpers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+from .helpers import MetricUpdater
+from prometheus_client import generate_latest
+
+import pytest
+
+
+class TestMetricUpdates:
+    @pytest.fixture(scope='class')
+    def latest(self, user):
+        user.save()
+
+        m = MetricUpdater()
+        m.update_metrics()
+
+        return generate_latest().decode('utf-8')
+
+    @pytest.mark.parametrize('metric', [
+        ('users_by_namespace{namespace="demoorg"}'),
+        ('users_by_role{role="superadmin"}'),
+        ('users_active'),
+        ('organization_count'),
+    ])
+    def test_metrics_exist(user, latest, metric):
+
+        req = "{metric} ".format(metric=metric)
+
+        assert req in latest
diff --git a/kqueen/middleware.py b/kqueen/middleware.py
index f1985472..6671d0fd 100644
--- a/kqueen/middleware.py
+++ b/kqueen/middleware.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 # Prometheus metrics
 REQUEST_COUNT = Counter(
     'request_count',
-    'HTPP Request Count',
+    'HTTP Request Count',
     ['method', 'endpoint', 'http_status']
 )
 REQUEST_LATENCY = Histogram(