diff --git a/config.go b/config.go
index 3a0b278ec..5b772885b 100644
--- a/config.go
+++ b/config.go
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ type Config struct {
 type Features struct {
 	DiagnosticsMetricsEnabled bool `yaml:"diagnostics_metrics_enabled"`
 	EnableMetricSinkRouting   bool `yaml:"enable_metric_sink_routing"`
+	EnableSourceMetricCount   bool `yaml:"enable_source_metric_count"`
 }
 
 type HttpConfig struct {
diff --git a/server.go b/server.go
index a4d237422..44769fa74 100644
--- a/server.go
+++ b/server.go
@@ -326,14 +326,23 @@ func scopesFromConfig(conf Config) (scopedstatsd.MetricScopes, error) {
 }
 
 type ingest struct {
-	server *Server
-	tags   []string
+	sourceName string
+	server     *Server
+	tags       []string
 }
 
 var _ sources.Ingest = &ingest{}
 
 func (ingest *ingest) IngestMetric(metric *samplers.UDPMetric) {
 	metric.Tags = append(metric.Tags, ingest.tags...)
+
+	if ingest.server.Config.Features.EnableSourceMetricCount {
+		ingest.server.Statsd.Count(
+			"source.metrics_count", int64(1), []string{
+				"protocol:udp",
+				"source:" + ingest.sourceName,
+			}, 1.0)
+	}
 	ingest.server.ingestMetric(metric)
 }
 
@@ -349,8 +358,15 @@ func (ingest *ingest) IngestMetricProto(metric *metricpb.Metric) {
 	for _, tag := range metric.Tags {
 		h = fnv1a.AddString32(h, tag)
 	}
-
 	workerIndex := h % uint32(len(ingest.server.Workers))
+
+	if ingest.server.Config.Features.EnableSourceMetricCount {
+		ingest.server.Statsd.Count(
+			"source.metrics_count", int64(1), []string{
+				"protocol:proto",
+				"source:" + ingest.sourceName,
+			}, 1.0)
+	}
 	ingest.server.Workers[workerIndex].ImportMetricChan <- metric
 }
 
@@ -510,20 +526,27 @@ func NewFromConfig(config ServerConfig) (*Server, error) {
 	}
 	ret.HistogramAggregates.Count = len(conf.Aggregates)
 
-	stats, err := statsd.New(conf.StatsAddress, statsd.WithoutTelemetry(), statsd.WithMaxMessagesPerPayload(4096))
+	statsClient, err := statsd.New(
+		conf.StatsAddress,
+		statsd.WithAggregationInterval(conf.Interval),
+		statsd.WithChannelMode(),
+		statsd.WithChannelModeBufferSize(64),
+		statsd.WithClientSideAggregation(),
+		statsd.WithMaxMessagesPerPayload(4096),
+		statsd.WithoutTelemetry())
 	if err != nil {
 		return ret, err
 	}
-	stats.Namespace = "veneur."
+	statsClient.Namespace = "veneur."
 
 	scopes, err := scopesFromConfig(conf)
 	if err != nil {
 		return ret, err
 	}
-	ret.Statsd = scopedstatsd.NewClient(stats, conf.VeneurMetricsAdditionalTags, scopes)
+	ret.Statsd = scopedstatsd.NewClient(statsClient, conf.VeneurMetricsAdditionalTags, scopes)
 
 	ret.TraceClient, err = trace.NewChannelClient(ret.SpanChan,
-		trace.ReportStatistics(stats, 1*time.Second, []string{"ssf_format:internal"}),
+		trace.ReportStatistics(statsClient, 1*time.Second, []string{"ssf_format:internal"}),
 		normalizeSpans(conf),
 	)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -1343,8 +1366,9 @@ func (s *Server) Serve() {
 	for _, source := range s.sources {
 		go func(source internalSource) {
 			source.source.Start(&ingest{
-				server: s,
-				tags:   source.tags,
+				sourceName: source.source.Name(),
+				server:     s,
+				tags:       source.tags,
 			})
 			done <- struct{}{}
 		}(source)
diff --git a/testdata/http_test_config.json b/testdata/http_test_config.json
index bbb3a69b6..7e661876c 100644
--- a/testdata/http_test_config.json
+++ b/testdata/http_test_config.json
@@ -11,7 +11,8 @@
   "ExtendTags": null,
   "Features": {
     "DiagnosticsMetricsEnabled": false,
-    "EnableMetricSinkRouting": false
+    "EnableMetricSinkRouting": false,
+    "EnableSourceMetricCount": false
   },
   "FlushOnShutdown": false,
   "FlushWatchdogMissedFlushes": 0,
diff --git a/testdata/http_test_config.yaml b/testdata/http_test_config.yaml
index 88ee44c05..4d79d2e75 100644
--- a/testdata/http_test_config.yaml
+++ b/testdata/http_test_config.yaml
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ extend_tags: []
 features:
   diagnostics_metrics_enabled: false
   enable_metric_sink_routing: false
+  enable_source_metric_count: false
 flush_on_shutdown: false
 flush_watchdog_missed_flushes: 0
 forward_address: ""