diff --git a/src/metrics.rs b/src/metrics.rs
index f1099655..7747a439 100644
--- a/src/metrics.rs
+++ b/src/metrics.rs
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ pub struct Metrics {
     pub processed_notifications: Counter<u64>,
     pub dispatched_notifications: Counter<u64>,
     pub notify_latency: Histogram<u64>,
+    pub publishing_workers_count: ObservableGauge<u64>,
+    pub publishing_workers_errors: Counter<u64>,
 }
 
 impl Metrics {
@@ -113,6 +115,16 @@ impl Metrics {
             .with_description("The amount of time it took to dispatch all notifications")
             .init();
 
+        let publishing_workers_count = meter
+            .u64_observable_gauge("publishing_workers_count")
+            .with_description("The number of spawned publishing workers tasks")
+            .init();
+
+        let publishing_workers_errors = meter
+            .u64_counter("publishing_workers_errors")
+            .with_description("The number of publishing worker that ended with an error")
+            .init();
+
         Metrics {
             subscribed_project_topics,
             subscribed_subscriber_topics,
@@ -126,8 +138,10 @@ impl Metrics {
             relay_outgoing_message_latency,
             relay_outgoing_message_publish_latency,
             processed_notifications,
-            notify_latency,
             dispatched_notifications,
+            notify_latency,
+            publishing_workers_count,
+            publishing_workers_errors,
         }
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/services/publisher_service/mod.rs b/src/services/publisher_service/mod.rs
index baacb271..33459916 100644
--- a/src/services/publisher_service/mod.rs
+++ b/src/services/publisher_service/mod.rs
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ use {
     },
     tracing::{info, instrument, warn},
     types::SubscriberNotificationStatus,
+    wc::metrics::otel::Context,
 };
 
 pub mod helpers;
@@ -61,19 +62,14 @@ pub async fn start(
             let metrics = metrics.clone();
             let analytics = analytics.clone();
             async move {
-                // TODO make DRY with below
-                spawned_tasks_counter.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
-                if let Err(e) = process_queued_messages(
+                process_and_handle(
                     &postgres,
                     relay_http_client,
                     metrics.as_ref(),
                     &analytics,
+                    spawned_tasks_counter,
                 )
-                .await
-                {
-                    warn!("Error on processing queued messages: {:?}", e);
-                }
-                spawned_tasks_counter.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
+                .await;
             }
         });
     }
@@ -91,18 +87,14 @@ pub async fn start(
                 let metrics = metrics.clone();
                 let analytics = analytics.clone();
                 async move {
-                    spawned_tasks_counter.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
-                    if let Err(e) = process_queued_messages(
+                    process_and_handle(
                         &postgres,
                         relay_http_client,
                         metrics.as_ref(),
                         &analytics,
+                        spawned_tasks_counter,
                     )
-                    .await
-                    {
-                        warn!("Error on processing queued messages: {:?}", e);
-                    }
-                    spawned_tasks_counter.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
+                    .await;
                 }
             });
         } else {
@@ -114,6 +106,45 @@ pub async fn start(
     }
 }
 
+/// This function runs the process and properly handles
+/// the spawned tasks counter and metrics
+async fn process_and_handle(
+    postgres: &PgPool,
+    relay_http_client: Arc<Client>,
+    metrics: Option<&Metrics>,
+    analytics: &NotifyAnalytics,
+    spawned_tasks_counter: Arc<AtomicUsize>,
+) {
+    spawned_tasks_counter.fetch_add(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
+
+    let ctx = Context::current();
+    if let Some(metrics) = metrics {
+        metrics.publishing_workers_count.observe(
+            &ctx,
+            spawned_tasks_counter.load(Ordering::SeqCst) as u64,
+            &[],
+        );
+        // TODO: Add worker execution time metric
+    }
+
+    if let Err(e) = process_queued_messages(postgres, relay_http_client, metrics, analytics).await {
+        if let Some(metrics) = metrics {
+            metrics.publishing_workers_errors.add(&ctx, 1, &[]);
+        }
+        warn!("Error on processing queued messages by the worker: {:?}", e);
+    }
+
+    spawned_tasks_counter.fetch_sub(1, Ordering::SeqCst);
+
+    if let Some(metrics) = metrics {
+        metrics.publishing_workers_count.observe(
+            &ctx,
+            spawned_tasks_counter.load(Ordering::SeqCst) as u64,
+            &[],
+        );
+    }
+}
+
 /// Picking messages from the queue and processing them in a loop until
 /// there are no more messages to process
 #[instrument(skip_all)]
diff --git a/terraform/monitoring/panels/app/publishing_workers_count.libsonnet b/terraform/monitoring/panels/app/publishing_workers_count.libsonnet
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fa513235
--- /dev/null
+++ b/terraform/monitoring/panels/app/publishing_workers_count.libsonnet
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+local grafana   = import '../../grafonnet-lib/grafana.libsonnet';
+local defaults  = import '../../grafonnet-lib/defaults.libsonnet';
+
+local panels    = grafana.panels;
+local targets   = grafana.targets;
+
+{
+  new(ds, vars)::
+    panels.timeseries(
+      title       = 'Publishing worker tasks count',
+      datasource  = ds.prometheus,
+    )
+    .configure(defaults.configuration.timeseries)
+    .addTarget(targets.prometheus(
+      datasource  = ds.prometheus,
+      expr        = 'sum(rate(publishing_workers_count_total{}[$__rate_interval]))',
+      refId       = "availability",
+    ))
+}
diff --git a/terraform/monitoring/panels/app/publishing_workers_errors.libsonnet b/terraform/monitoring/panels/app/publishing_workers_errors.libsonnet
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dc5eb347
--- /dev/null
+++ b/terraform/monitoring/panels/app/publishing_workers_errors.libsonnet
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+local grafana   = import '../../grafonnet-lib/grafana.libsonnet';
+local defaults  = import '../../grafonnet-lib/defaults.libsonnet';
+
+local panels    = grafana.panels;
+local targets   = grafana.targets;
+
+{
+  new(ds, vars)::
+    panels.timeseries(
+      title       = 'Publishing worker tasks errors count',
+      datasource  = ds.prometheus,
+    )
+    .configure(defaults.configuration.timeseries)
+    .addTarget(targets.prometheus(
+      datasource  = ds.prometheus,
+      expr        = 'sum(rate(publishing_workers_errors_total{}[$__rate_interval]))',
+      refId       = "availability",
+    ))
+}
diff --git a/terraform/monitoring/panels/panels.libsonnet b/terraform/monitoring/panels/panels.libsonnet
index 87f6141a..2fab6b40 100644
--- a/terraform/monitoring/panels/panels.libsonnet
+++ b/terraform/monitoring/panels/panels.libsonnet
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ local docdb_mem_threshold = units.size_bin(GiB = docdb_mem * 0.1);
     dispatched_notifications:                   (import 'app/dispatched_notifications.libsonnet'                   ).new,
     send_failed:                                (import 'app/send_failed.libsonnet'                                ).new,
     account_not_found:                          (import 'app/account_not_found.libsonnet'                          ).new,
+    publishing_workers_count:                   (import 'app/publishing_workers_count.libsonnet'                   ).new,
+    publishing_workers_errors:                  (import 'app/publishing_workers_errors.libsonnet'                  ).new,
   },
   ecs: {
     cpu(ds, vars):            ecs.cpu.panel(ds.cloudwatch, vars.namespace, vars.environment, vars.notifications, vars.ecs_service_name, vars.ecs_cluster_name),