diff --git a/collectors/health.go b/collectors/health.go
index 0f389e8..cd43f51 100644
--- a/collectors/health.go
+++ b/collectors/health.go
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ type ClusterHealthCollector struct {
 	// Deep scrubbing reads the data and uses checksums to ensure data integrity.
 	DeepScrubbingPGs prometheus.Gauge
 
+	// SlowRequests depicts no. of total slow requests in the cluster
+	SlowRequests prometheus.Gauge
+
 	// DegradedObjectsCount gives the no. of RADOS objects are constitute the degraded PGs.
 	// This includes object replicas in its count.
 	DegradedObjectsCount prometheus.Gauge
@@ -212,6 +215,14 @@ func NewClusterHealthCollector(conn Conn, cluster string) *ClusterHealthCollecto
 				ConstLabels: labels,
 			},
 		),
+		SlowRequests: prometheus.NewGauge(
+			prometheus.GaugeOpts{
+				Namespace:   cephNamespace,
+				Name:        "slow_requests",
+				Help:        "No. of slow requests",
+				ConstLabels: labels,
+			},
+		),
 		DegradedPGs: prometheus.NewGauge(
 			prometheus.GaugeOpts{
 				Namespace:   cephNamespace,
@@ -437,6 +448,7 @@ func (c *ClusterHealthCollector) metricsList() []prometheus.Metric {
 		c.StuckStalePGs,
 		c.ScrubbingPGs,
 		c.DeepScrubbingPGs,
+		c.SlowRequests,
 		c.DegradedObjectsCount,
 		c.MisplacedObjectsCount,
 		c.OSDsDown,
@@ -521,6 +533,7 @@ func (c *ClusterHealthCollector) collect() error {
 		stuckUndersizedRegex  = regexp.MustCompile(`([\d]+) pgs stuck undersized`)
 		staleRegex            = regexp.MustCompile(`([\d]+) pgs stale`)
 		stuckStaleRegex       = regexp.MustCompile(`([\d]+) pgs stuck stale`)
+		slowRequestRegex      = regexp.MustCompile(`([\d]+) requests are blocked`)
 		degradedObjectsRegex  = regexp.MustCompile(`recovery ([\d]+)/([\d]+) objects degraded`)
 		misplacedObjectsRegex = regexp.MustCompile(`recovery ([\d]+)/([\d]+) objects misplaced`)
 	)
@@ -598,6 +611,15 @@ func (c *ClusterHealthCollector) collect() error {
 			c.StuckStalePGs.Set(float64(v))
 		}
 
+		matched = slowRequestRegex.FindStringSubmatch(s.Summary)
+		if len(matched) == 2 {
+			v, err := strconv.Atoi(matched[1])
+			if err != nil {
+				return err
+			}
+			c.SlowRequests.Set(float64(v))
+		}
+
 		matched = degradedObjectsRegex.FindStringSubmatch(s.Summary)
 		if len(matched) == 3 {
 			v, err := strconv.Atoi(matched[1])
diff --git a/collectors/health_test.go b/collectors/health_test.go
index 4d28729..915f339 100644
--- a/collectors/health_test.go
+++ b/collectors/health_test.go
@@ -372,6 +372,22 @@ $ sudo ceph -s
 				regexp.MustCompile(`deep_scrubbing_pgs{cluster="ceph"} 5`),
 			},
 		},
+		{
+			input: `
+{
+	"health": {
+		"summary": [
+			{
+				"severity": "HEALTH_WARN",
+				"summary": "6 requests are blocked > 32 sec"
+			}
+		]
+	}
+}`,
+			regexes: []*regexp.Regexp{
+				regexp.MustCompile(`slow_requests{cluster="ceph"} 6`),
+			},
+		},
 	} {
 		func() {
 			collector := NewClusterHealthCollector(NewNoopConn(tt.input), "ceph")