diff --git a/thriftbp/server.go b/thriftbp/server.go
index 16b4bc73e..cc06c6e09 100644
--- a/thriftbp/server.go
+++ b/thriftbp/server.go
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ type ServerConfig struct {
 	// If not set none of the requests will be sampled.
 	ReportPayloadSizeMetricsSampleRate float64
 
+	// Optional, used by NewBaseplateServer and NewServer.
+	//
+	// Report the number of clients connected to the server as a runtime gauge
+	// with metric name of 'thrift.connections'
+	ReportConnectionCount bool
+
 	// Optional, used only by NewServer.
 	// In NewBaseplateServer the address set in bp.Config() will be used instead.
 	//
@@ -69,7 +75,7 @@ type ServerConfig struct {
 // and protocol to serve the given TProcessor which is wrapped with the
 // given ProcessorMiddlewares.
 func NewServer(cfg ServerConfig) (*thrift.TSimpleServer, error) {
-	var transport *thrift.TServerSocket
+	var transport thrift.TServerTransport
 	if cfg.Socket == nil {
 		var err error
 		transport, err = thrift.NewTServerSocket(cfg.Addr)
@@ -80,6 +86,10 @@ func NewServer(cfg ServerConfig) (*thrift.TSimpleServer, error) {
 		transport = cfg.Socket
 	}
 
+	if cfg.ReportConnectionCount {
+		transport = &CountedTServerTransport{transport}
+	}
+
 	server := thrift.NewTSimpleServer4(
 		thrift.WrapProcessor(cfg.Processor, cfg.Middlewares...),
 		transport,
diff --git a/thriftbp/server_transport.go b/thriftbp/server_transport.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3ca43a8d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/thriftbp/server_transport.go
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package thriftbp
+
+import (
+	"sync"
+
+	"github.com/apache/thrift/lib/go/thrift"
+	"github.com/go-kit/kit/metrics"
+
+	"github.com/reddit/baseplate.go/metricsbp"
+)
+
+const meterNameTransportConnCounter = "thrift.connections"
+
+type CountedTServerTransport struct {
+	thrift.TServerTransport
+}
+
+func (m *CountedTServerTransport) Accept() (thrift.TTransport, error) {
+	transport, err := m.TServerTransport.Accept()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	return newCountedTTransport(transport), nil
+}
+
+type countedTTransport struct {
+	thrift.TTransport
+
+	gauge     metrics.Gauge
+	closeOnce sync.Once
+}
+
+func newCountedTTransport(transport thrift.TTransport) thrift.TTransport {
+	return &countedTTransport{
+		TTransport: transport,
+		gauge:      metricsbp.M.RuntimeGauge(meterNameTransportConnCounter),
+	}
+}
+
+func (m *countedTTransport) Close() error {
+	m.closeOnce.Do(func() {
+		m.gauge.Add(-1)
+	})
+	return m.TTransport.Close()
+}
+
+func (m *countedTTransport) Open() error {
+	if err := m.TTransport.Open(); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	m.gauge.Add(1)
+	return nil
+}