diff --git a/backend/src/lib/telemetry/metrics.ts b/backend/src/lib/telemetry/metrics.ts
index df6aacaec..5f650ffc6 100644
--- a/backend/src/lib/telemetry/metrics.ts
+++ b/backend/src/lib/telemetry/metrics.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
+import { requestContext } from "@fastify/request-context";
 import opentelemetry from "@opentelemetry/api";
 
+import { getConfig } from "../config/env";
+
 const infisicalMeter = opentelemetry.metrics.getMeter("Infisical");
 
 export enum AuthAttemptAuthMethod {
@@ -32,3 +35,66 @@ export const authAttemptCounter = infisicalMeter.createCounter("infisical.auth.a
   description: "Authentication attempts (both successful and failed)",
   unit: "{attempt}"
 });
+
+export const secretReadCounter = infisicalMeter.createCounter("infisical.secret.read.count", {
+  description: "Number of secret read operations",
+  unit: "{operation}"
+});
+
+export const recordSecretReadMetric = (params: { environment: string; secretPath: string; name?: string }) => {
+  const appCfg = getConfig();
+
+  if (appCfg.OTEL_TELEMETRY_COLLECTION_ENABLED) {
+    const attributes: Record<string, string> = {
+      "infisical.environment": params.environment,
+      "infisical.secret.path": params.secretPath,
+      ...(params.name ? { "infisical.secret.name": params.name } : {})
+    };
+
+    const orgId = requestContext.get("orgId");
+    if (orgId) {
+      attributes["infisical.organization.id"] = orgId;
+    }
+
+    const orgName = requestContext.get("orgName");
+    if (orgName) {
+      attributes["infisical.organization.name"] = orgName;
+    }
+
+    const projectDetails = requestContext.get("projectDetails");
+    if (projectDetails?.id) {
+      attributes["infisical.project.id"] = projectDetails.id;
+    }
+    if (projectDetails?.name) {
+      attributes["infisical.project.name"] = projectDetails.name;
+    }
+
+    const userAuthInfo = requestContext.get("userAuthInfo");
+    if (userAuthInfo?.userId) {
+      attributes["infisical.user.id"] = userAuthInfo.userId;
+    }
+    if (userAuthInfo?.email) {
+      attributes["infisical.user.email"] = userAuthInfo.email;
+    }
+
+    const identityAuthInfo = requestContext.get("identityAuthInfo");
+    if (identityAuthInfo?.identityId) {
+      attributes["infisical.identity.id"] = identityAuthInfo.identityId;
+    }
+    if (identityAuthInfo?.identityName) {
+      attributes["infisical.identity.name"] = identityAuthInfo.identityName;
+    }
+
+    const userAgent = requestContext.get("userAgent");
+    if (userAgent) {
+      attributes["user_agent.original"] = userAgent;
+    }
+
+    const ip = requestContext.get("ip");
+    if (ip) {
+      attributes["client.address"] = ip;
+    }
+
+    secretReadCounter.add(1, attributes);
+  }
+};
diff --git a/backend/src/services/secret-v2-bridge/secret-v2-bridge-service.ts b/backend/src/services/secret-v2-bridge/secret-v2-bridge-service.ts
index 465babebe..559c86843 100644
--- a/backend/src/services/secret-v2-bridge/secret-v2-bridge-service.ts
+++ b/backend/src/services/secret-v2-bridge/secret-v2-bridge-service.ts
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ import { diff, groupBy } from "@app/lib/fn";
 import { setKnexStringValue } from "@app/lib/knex";
 import { logger } from "@app/lib/logger";
 import { alphaNumericNanoId } from "@app/lib/nanoid";
+import { recordSecretReadMetric } from "@app/lib/telemetry/metrics";
 
 import { ActorType } from "../auth/auth-type";
 import { TCommitResourceChangeDTO, TFolderCommitServiceFactory } from "../folder-commit/folder-commit-service";
@@ -1052,6 +1053,11 @@ export const secretV2BridgeServiceFactory = ({
     });
     throwIfMissingSecretReadValueOrDescribePermission(permission, ProjectPermissionSecretActions.DescribeSecret);
 
+    recordSecretReadMetric({
+      environment,
+      secretPath: path
+    });
+
     const cachedSecretDalVersion = await keyStore.pgGetIntItem(SecretServiceCacheKeys.getSecretDalVersion(projectId));
     const secretDalVersion = Number(cachedSecretDalVersion || 0);
     const cacheKey = SecretServiceCacheKeys.getSecretsOfServiceLayer(projectId, secretDalVersion, {
@@ -1482,6 +1488,12 @@ export const secretV2BridgeServiceFactory = ({
       secretTags: (secret?.tags || []).map((el) => el.slug)
     });
 
+    recordSecretReadMetric({
+      environment,
+      secretPath: path,
+      name: secretName
+    });
+
     // this will throw if the user doesn't have read value permission no matter what
     // because if its an expansion, it will fully depend on the value.
     const { expandSecretReferences } = expandSecretReferencesFactory({