diff --git a/pulsar-broker/src/main/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/service/ServerCnx.java b/pulsar-broker/src/main/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/service/ServerCnx.java
index f9e593345d85f..2fc76dbf49fba 100644
--- a/pulsar-broker/src/main/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/service/ServerCnx.java
+++ b/pulsar-broker/src/main/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/service/ServerCnx.java
@@ -60,11 +60,13 @@
 import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap;
 import java.util.concurrent.Semaphore;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.LongAdder;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 import javax.naming.AuthenticationException;
 import javax.net.ssl.SSLSession;
 import javax.ws.rs.WebApplicationException;
 import javax.ws.rs.core.Response;
+import io.prometheus.client.Gauge;
 import org.apache.bookkeeper.mledger.AsyncCallbacks;
 import org.apache.bookkeeper.mledger.Entry;
 import org.apache.bookkeeper.mledger.ManagedLedger;
@@ -250,6 +252,26 @@ public class ServerCnx extends PulsarHandler implements TransportCnx {
 
     private final long connectionLivenessCheckTimeoutMillis;
 
+    private static final LongAdder totalPendingBytes = new LongAdder();
+    private static volatile Gauge pendingPublishBufferUsage;
+
+    private static void initializePendingPublishBufferUsageGauge(PulsarService pulsar) {
+        if (pendingPublishBufferUsage == null) {
+            pendingPublishBufferUsage = Gauge.build()
+                    .name("pulsar_pending_publish_buffer_usage")
+                    .help("The usage of pending publish buffer")
+                    .unit("bytes")
+                    .labelNames("cluster")
+                    .register()
+                    .setChild(new Gauge.Child() {
+                        @Override
+                        public double get() {
+                            return totalPendingBytes.longValue();
+                        }
+                    }, pulsar.getConfiguration().getClusterName());
+        }
+    }
+
     // Tracks and limits number of bytes pending to be published from a single specific IO thread.
     static final class PendingBytesPerThreadTracker {
         private static final FastThreadLocal<PendingBytesPerThreadTracker> pendingBytesPerThread =
@@ -269,6 +291,7 @@ public static PendingBytesPerThreadTracker getInstance() {
 
         public void incrementPublishBytes(long bytes, long maxPendingBytesPerThread) {
             pendingBytes += bytes;
+            totalPendingBytes.add(bytes);
             // when the limit is exceeded we throttle all connections that are sharing the same thread
             if (maxPendingBytesPerThread > 0 && pendingBytes > maxPendingBytesPerThread
                     && !limitExceeded) {
@@ -279,6 +302,7 @@ public void incrementPublishBytes(long bytes, long maxPendingBytesPerThread) {
 
         public void decrementPublishBytes(long bytes, long resumeThresholdPendingBytesPerThread) {
             pendingBytes -= bytes;
+            totalPendingBytes.add(-bytes);
             // when the limit has been exceeded, and we are below the resume threshold
             // we resume all connections sharing the same thread
             if (limitExceeded && pendingBytes <= resumeThresholdPendingBytesPerThread) {
@@ -312,6 +336,7 @@ public ServerCnx(PulsarService pulsar, String listenerName) {
         // the null check is a workaround for #13620
         super(pulsar.getBrokerService() != null ? pulsar.getBrokerService().getKeepAliveIntervalSeconds() : 0,
                 TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+        initializePendingPublishBufferUsageGauge(pulsar);
         this.service = pulsar.getBrokerService();
         this.schemaService = pulsar.getSchemaRegistryService();
         this.listenerName = listenerName;
diff --git a/pulsar-broker/src/test/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/stats/PrometheusMetricsTest.java b/pulsar-broker/src/test/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/stats/PrometheusMetricsTest.java
index fa073d3694b26..63647833540f6 100644
--- a/pulsar-broker/src/test/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/stats/PrometheusMetricsTest.java
+++ b/pulsar-broker/src/test/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/stats/PrometheusMetricsTest.java
@@ -1969,6 +1969,26 @@ public void testSplitTopicAndPartitionLabel() throws Exception {
         consumer2.close();
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testPendingPublishBufferUsageMetric() throws Exception {
+        @Cleanup
+        Producer<byte[]> producer = pulsarClient.newProducer()
+                .topic("persistent://my-property/use/my-ns/testPendingPublishBufferUsageMetric")
+                .create();
+        for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
+            String message = "my-message-" + i;
+            producer.send(message.getBytes());
+        }
+        ByteArrayOutputStream statsOut = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+        PrometheusMetricsTestUtil.generate(pulsar, false, false, false, statsOut);
+        String metricsStr = statsOut.toString();
+        Multimap<String, Metric> metrics = parseMetrics(metricsStr);
+        List<Metric> cm = (List<Metric>) metrics.get("pulsar_pending_publish_buffer_usage_bytes");
+        assertEquals(cm.size(), 1);
+        assertEquals(cm.get(0).tags.get("cluster"), pulsar.getConfiguration().getClusterName());
+        assertTrue(cm.get(0).value >= 0);
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void testMetricsGroupedByTypeDefinitions() throws Exception {
         Producer<byte[]> p1 = pulsarClient.newProducer().topic("persistent://my-property/use/my-ns/my-topic1").create();