diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7374032f..943c8569 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ lastlogin | Exposes the last time there was a login.
 megacli | Exposes RAID statistics from MegaCLI.
 ntp | Exposes time drift from an NTP server.
 runit | Exposes service status from [runit](http://smarden.org/runit/).
+tcpstat | Exposes TCP connection status information from /proc/net/tcp and /proc/net/tcp6. (Warning: the current version has potential performance issues in high load situations.)
 
 ## Textfile Collector
 
diff --git a/collector/fixtures/tcpstat b/collector/fixtures/tcpstat
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8b3777a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/collector/fixtures/tcpstat
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+  sl  local_address rem_address   st tx_queue rx_queue tr tm->when retrnsmt   uid  timeout inode                                                     
+   0: 00000000:0016 00000000:0000 0A 00000000:00000000 00:00000000 00000000     0        0 2740 1 ffff88003d3af3c0 100 0 0 10 0                      
+   1: 0F02000A:0016 0202000A:8B6B 01 00000000:00000000 02:000AC99B 00000000     0        0 3652 4 ffff88003d3ae040 21 4 31 47 46                     
diff --git a/collector/tcpstat.go b/collector/tcpstat.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d8bee653
--- /dev/null
+++ b/collector/tcpstat.go
@@ -0,0 +1,150 @@
+// +build !notcpstat
+
+package collector
+
+import (
+	"bufio"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
+)
+
+const (
+	procTCPStat  = "/proc/net/tcp"
+	procTCP6Stat = "/proc/net/tcp6"
+)
+
+type TCPConnectionState int
+
+const (
+	TCP_ESTABLISHED TCPConnectionState = iota + 1
+	TCP_SYN_SENT
+	TCP_SYN_RECV
+	TCP_FIN_WAIT1
+	TCP_FIN_WAIT2
+	TCP_TIME_WAIT
+	TCP_CLOSE
+	TCP_CLOSE_WAIT
+	TCP_LAST_ACK
+	TCP_LISTEN
+	TCP_CLOSING
+)
+
+type tcpStatCollector struct {
+	config Config
+	metric *prometheus.GaugeVec
+}
+
+func init() {
+	Factories["tcpstat"] = NewTCPStatCollector
+}
+
+// NewTCPStatCollector takes a config struct and returns
+// a new Collector exposing network stats.
+func NewTCPStatCollector(config Config) (Collector, error) {
+	return &tcpStatCollector{
+		config: config,
+		metric: prometheus.NewGaugeVec(
+			prometheus.GaugeOpts{
+				Namespace: Namespace,
+				Name:      "tcp_connection_states",
+				Help:      "Number of connection states.",
+			},
+			[]string{"state"},
+		),
+	}, nil
+}
+
+func (c *tcpStatCollector) Update(ch chan<- prometheus.Metric) (err error) {
+	tcpStats, err := getTCPStats(procTCPStat)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("couldn't get tcpstats: %s", err)
+	}
+
+	// if enabled ipv6 system
+	if _, hasIPv6 := os.Stat(procTCP6Stat); hasIPv6 == nil {
+		tcp6Stats, err := getTCPStats(procTCP6Stat)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("couldn't get tcp6stats: %s", err)
+		}
+
+		for st, value := range tcp6Stats {
+			tcpStats[st] += value
+		}
+	}
+
+	for st, value := range tcpStats {
+		c.metric.WithLabelValues(st.String()).Set(value)
+	}
+
+	c.metric.Collect(ch)
+	return err
+}
+
+func getTCPStats(statsFile string) (map[TCPConnectionState]float64, error) {
+	file, err := os.Open(statsFile)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer file.Close()
+
+	return parseTCPStats(file)
+}
+
+func parseTCPStats(r io.Reader) (map[TCPConnectionState]float64, error) {
+	var (
+		tcpStats = map[TCPConnectionState]float64{}
+		scanner  = bufio.NewScanner(r)
+	)
+
+	for scanner.Scan() {
+		parts := strings.Fields(scanner.Text())
+		if len(parts) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+		if strings.HasPrefix(parts[0], "sl") {
+			continue
+		}
+		st, err := strconv.ParseInt(parts[3], 16, 8)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+
+		tcpStats[TCPConnectionState(st)]++
+	}
+
+	return tcpStats, nil
+}
+
+func (st TCPConnectionState) String() string {
+	switch st {
+	case TCP_ESTABLISHED:
+		return "established"
+	case TCP_SYN_SENT:
+		return "syn_sent"
+	case TCP_SYN_RECV:
+		return "syn_recv"
+	case TCP_FIN_WAIT1:
+		return "fin_wait1"
+	case TCP_FIN_WAIT2:
+		return "fin_wait2"
+	case TCP_TIME_WAIT:
+		return "time_wait"
+	case TCP_CLOSE:
+		return "close"
+	case TCP_CLOSE_WAIT:
+		return "close_wait"
+	case TCP_LAST_ACK:
+		return "last_ack"
+	case TCP_LISTEN:
+		return "listen"
+	case TCP_CLOSING:
+		return "closing"
+	default:
+		return "unknown"
+	}
+}
diff --git a/collector/tcpstat_test.go b/collector/tcpstat_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c86222fa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/collector/tcpstat_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package collector
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestTCPStat(t *testing.T) {
+	file, err := os.Open("fixtures/tcpstat")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	defer file.Close()
+
+	tcpStats, err := parseTCPStats(file)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	if want, got := 1, int(tcpStats[TCP_ESTABLISHED]); want != got {
+		t.Errorf("want tcpstat number of established state %d, got %d", want, got)
+	}
+
+	if want, got := 1, int(tcpStats[TCP_LISTEN]); want != got {
+		t.Errorf("want tcpstat number of listen state %d, got %d", want, got)
+	}
+}