diff --git a/docs/src/user-guide/observability.md b/docs/src/user-guide/observability.md
index 84ac08af8..fead01849 100644
--- a/docs/src/user-guide/observability.md
+++ b/docs/src/user-guide/observability.md
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ This optional interface will serve Prometheus metrics from `/metrics`. It will b
 | `connections_opened`                       | `source`    | [counter](#counter)     | Counts the total number of connections that clients have opened against this source.         |
 | `shotover_chain_requests_batch_size`       | `chain`     | [histogram](#histogram) | The number of requests in each request batch passing through `chain`.     |
 | `shotover_chain_responses_batch_size`      | `chain`     | [histogram](#histogram) | The number of responses in each response batch passing through `chain`.   |
-| `shotover_available_connections_count`     | `source`    | [gauge](#gauge)         | The number of connections currently connected to `source`                 |
 | `shotover_source_to_sink_latency_seconds`  | `sink`      | [histogram](#histogram) | The milliseconds between reading a request from a source TCP connection and writing it to a sink TCP connection  |
 | `shotover_sink_to_source_latency_seconds`  | `source`    | [histogram](#histogram) | The milliseconds between reading a response from a sink TCP connection and writing it to a source TCP connection |
 
diff --git a/shotover-proxy/tests/runner/observability_int_tests.rs b/shotover-proxy/tests/runner/observability_int_tests.rs
index 79eaac1d5..dab8f7591 100644
--- a/shotover-proxy/tests/runner/observability_int_tests.rs
+++ b/shotover-proxy/tests/runner/observability_int_tests.rs
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ async fn test_metrics() {
 # TYPE connections_opened counter
 # TYPE shotover_available_connections_count gauge
 # TYPE shotover_chain_failures_count counter
+# TYPE shotover_chain_messages_per_batch_count summary
 # TYPE shotover_chain_requests_batch_size summary
 # TYPE shotover_chain_responses_batch_size summary
 # TYPE shotover_chain_total_count counter
@@ -25,6 +26,16 @@ async fn test_metrics() {
 connections_opened{source="redis"}
 shotover_available_connections_count{source="redis"}
 shotover_chain_failures_count{chain="redis"}
+shotover_chain_messages_per_batch_count_count{chain="redis"}
+shotover_chain_messages_per_batch_count_sum{chain="redis"}
+shotover_chain_messages_per_batch_count{chain="redis",quantile="0"}
+shotover_chain_messages_per_batch_count{chain="redis",quantile="0.1"}
+shotover_chain_messages_per_batch_count{chain="redis",quantile="0.5"}
+shotover_chain_messages_per_batch_count{chain="redis",quantile="0.9"}
+shotover_chain_messages_per_batch_count{chain="redis",quantile="0.95"}
+shotover_chain_messages_per_batch_count{chain="redis",quantile="0.99"}
+shotover_chain_messages_per_batch_count{chain="redis",quantile="0.999"}
+shotover_chain_messages_per_batch_count{chain="redis",quantile="1"}
 shotover_chain_requests_batch_size_count{chain="redis"}
 shotover_chain_requests_batch_size_sum{chain="redis"}
 shotover_chain_requests_batch_size{chain="redis",quantile="0"}
diff --git a/shotover/src/transforms/chain.rs b/shotover/src/transforms/chain.rs
index 2dfd5db34..35a9b2e91 100644
--- a/shotover/src/transforms/chain.rs
+++ b/shotover/src/transforms/chain.rs
@@ -246,6 +246,9 @@ impl TransformChainBuilder {
             }
         ).collect();
 
+        // This is deprecated but give users some time to migrate to the requests/responses versions that have replaced this metric
+        histogram!("shotover_chain_messages_per_batch_count", "chain" => name).record(0);
+
         let chain_requests_batch_size =
             histogram!("shotover_chain_requests_batch_size", "chain" => name);
         let chain_responses_batch_size =