diff --git a/internal/pkg/controler/channels.go b/internal/pkg/controler/channels.go
index 7d5a6984..68834ddf 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/controler/channels.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/controler/channels.go
@@ -1,9 +1,21 @@
 package controler
 
-import "github.com/internetarchive/Zeno/pkg/models"
+import (
+	"sync"
+
+	"github.com/internetarchive/Zeno/pkg/models"
+)
+
+// NamedChannel holds a channel with its associated name for monitoring
+type NamedChannel struct {
+	Name    string
+	Channel chan *models.Item
+}
 
 var (
-	stageChannels []chan *models.Item
+	stageChannels      []chan *models.Item
+	namedChannels      []NamedChannel
+	namedChannelsMutex sync.RWMutex
 )
 
 func makeStageChannel(bufferSize ...int) chan *models.Item {
@@ -22,6 +34,32 @@ func makeStageChannel(bufferSize ...int) chan *models.Item {
 	return ch
 }
 
+// makeNamedStageChannel creates a channel with a name for monitoring purposes
+func makeNamedStageChannel(name string, bufferSize ...int) chan *models.Item {
+	ch := makeStageChannel(bufferSize...)
+
+	namedChannelsMutex.Lock()
+	namedChannels = append(namedChannels, NamedChannel{
+		Name:    name,
+		Channel: ch,
+	})
+	namedChannelsMutex.Unlock()
+
+	return ch
+}
+
+// GetChannelQueueSizes returns the current queue sizes for all named channels
+func GetChannelQueueSizes() map[string]int {
+	namedChannelsMutex.RLock()
+	defer namedChannelsMutex.RUnlock()
+
+	queueSizes := make(map[string]int)
+	for _, namedCh := range namedChannels {
+		queueSizes[namedCh.Name] = len(namedCh.Channel)
+	}
+	return queueSizes
+}
+
 func closeStageChannels() {
 	for _, ch := range stageChannels {
 		close(ch)
diff --git a/internal/pkg/controler/channels_test.go b/internal/pkg/controler/channels_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..11a0cbd1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/pkg/controler/channels_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+package controler
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/internetarchive/Zeno/pkg/models"
+)
+
+func TestMakeStageChannel(t *testing.T) {
+	// Reset state
+	stageChannels = nil
+	namedChannels = nil
+
+	// Test basic channel creation
+	ch := makeStageChannel(10)
+	if cap(ch) != 10 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected channel capacity 10, got %d", cap(ch))
+	}
+
+	// Test named channel creation
+	namedCh := makeNamedStageChannel("test_channel", 5)
+	if cap(namedCh) != 5 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected named channel capacity 5, got %d", cap(namedCh))
+	}
+
+	// Test that named channel is tracked
+	queueSizes := GetChannelQueueSizes()
+	if len(queueSizes) != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected 1 named channel, got %d", len(queueSizes))
+	}
+
+	if size, exists := queueSizes["test_channel"]; !exists {
+		t.Error("Expected 'test_channel' to exist in queue sizes")
+	} else if size != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected queue size 0, got %d", size)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestGetChannelQueueSizes(t *testing.T) {
+	// Reset state
+	stageChannels = nil
+	namedChannels = nil
+
+	// Create multiple named channels
+	ch1 := makeNamedStageChannel("channel1", 10)
+	makeNamedStageChannel("channel2", 5)
+
+	// Add some items to test queue size tracking
+	item := &models.Item{}
+
+	select {
+	case ch1 <- item:
+		// Successfully added item to ch1
+	default:
+		t.Fatal("Failed to add item to ch1")
+	}
+
+	// Get queue sizes
+	queueSizes := GetChannelQueueSizes()
+
+	// Verify tracking
+	if len(queueSizes) != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected 2 channels, got %d", len(queueSizes))
+	}
+
+	if size := queueSizes["channel1"]; size != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected channel1 size 1, got %d", size)
+	}
+
+	if size := queueSizes["channel2"]; size != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected channel2 size 0, got %d", size)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/pkg/controler/pipeline.go b/internal/pkg/controler/pipeline.go
index 229becb1..06c853d9 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/controler/pipeline.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/controler/pipeline.go
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ func startPipeline() error {
 		return err
 	}
 
+	// Set the channel queue size getter for stats monitoring
+	stats.SetChannelQueueSizeGetter(GetChannelQueueSizes)
+
 	// Start the disk watcher
 	go watchers.WatchDiskSpace(config.Get().JobPath, 5*time.Second)
 
@@ -78,7 +81,7 @@ func startPipeline() error {
 	}
 
 	// Start the reactor that will receive
-	reactorOutputChan := makeStageChannel(config.Get().WorkersCount)
+	reactorOutputChan := makeNamedStageChannel("reactor_to_preprocessor", config.Get().WorkersCount)
 	err = reactor.Start(config.Get().WorkersCount, reactorOutputChan)
 	if err != nil {
 		logger.Error("error starting reactor", "err", err.Error())
@@ -94,14 +97,14 @@ func startPipeline() error {
 		}
 	}
 
-	preprocessorOutputChan := makeStageChannel(config.Get().WorkersCount)
+	preprocessorOutputChan := makeNamedStageChannel("preprocessor_to_archiver", config.Get().WorkersCount)
 	err = preprocessor.Start(reactorOutputChan, preprocessorOutputChan)
 	if err != nil {
 		logger.Error("error starting preprocessor", "err", err.Error())
 		return err
 	}
 
-	archiverOutputChan := makeStageChannel(config.Get().WorkersCount)
+	archiverOutputChan := makeNamedStageChannel("archiver_to_postprocessor", config.Get().WorkersCount)
 	err = archiver.Start(preprocessorOutputChan, archiverOutputChan)
 	if err != nil {
 		logger.Error("error starting archiver", "err", err.Error())
@@ -109,21 +112,21 @@ func startPipeline() error {
 	}
 
 	// Used by optional 2nd HQ instance just to gather outlinks to a different project
-	hqOutlinksFinishChan := makeStageChannel(config.Get().WorkersCount)
-	hqOutlinksProduceChan := makeStageChannel(config.Get().WorkersCount)
+	hqOutlinksFinishChan := makeNamedStageChannel("hq_outlinks_finish", config.Get().WorkersCount)
+	hqOutlinksProduceChan := makeNamedStageChannel("hq_outlinks_produce", config.Get().WorkersCount)
 
 	// Start the WARC writing queue watcher
 	watchers.StartWatchWARCWritingQueue(1*time.Second, 2*time.Second, 250*time.Millisecond)
 
-	postprocessorOutputChan := makeStageChannel(config.Get().WorkersCount)
+	postprocessorOutputChan := makeNamedStageChannel("postprocessor_to_finisher", config.Get().WorkersCount)
 	err = postprocessor.Start(archiverOutputChan, postprocessorOutputChan, hqOutlinksProduceChan)
 	if err != nil {
 		logger.Error("error starting postprocessor", "err", err.Error())
 		return err
 	}
 
-	finisherFinishChan := makeStageChannel(config.Get().WorkersCount)
-	finisherProduceChan := makeStageChannel(config.Get().WorkersCount)
+	finisherFinishChan := makeNamedStageChannel("finisher_to_source", config.Get().WorkersCount)
+	finisherProduceChan := makeNamedStageChannel("source_to_finisher", config.Get().WorkersCount)
 
 	if config.Get().UseHQ {
 		hqSource := hq.New(config.Get().HQKey, config.Get().HQSecret, config.Get().HQProject, config.Get().HQAddress)
diff --git a/internal/pkg/controler/watchers/warc.go b/internal/pkg/controler/watchers/warc.go
index feb3bc42..e57a8f9d 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/controler/watchers/warc.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/controler/watchers/warc.go
@@ -91,6 +91,8 @@ func StartWatchWARCWritingQueue(pauseCheckInterval time.Duration, pauseTimeout t
 			case <-statsTicker.C:
 				s := archiver.GetStats()
 				stats.WarcWritingQueueSizeSet(s.WARCWritingQueueSize)
+				// Update component queue sizes for Prometheus
+				stats.ComponentQueueSizesUpdate()
 				// Update dedup WARC metrics
 				stats.WARCDataTotalBytesSet(s.WARCTotalBytesArchived)
 				stats.WARCCDXDedupeTotalBytesSet(s.CDXDedupeTotalBytes)
diff --git a/internal/pkg/stats/channels.go b/internal/pkg/stats/channels.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..fe1df75d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/pkg/stats/channels.go
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+package stats
+
+// ChannelQueueSizeGetter is a function type that returns channel queue sizes
+type ChannelQueueSizeGetter func() map[string]int
+
+var channelQueueSizeGetter ChannelQueueSizeGetter
+
+// SetChannelQueueSizeGetter sets the function to get channel queue sizes
+func SetChannelQueueSizeGetter(getter ChannelQueueSizeGetter) {
+	channelQueueSizeGetter = getter
+}
+
+// GetChannelQueueSizes returns the current channel queue sizes
+func GetChannelQueueSizes() map[string]int {
+	if channelQueueSizeGetter != nil {
+		return channelQueueSizeGetter()
+	}
+	return make(map[string]int)
+}
diff --git a/internal/pkg/stats/channels_test.go b/internal/pkg/stats/channels_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b164b901
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/pkg/stats/channels_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+package stats
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+)
+
+func TestChannelQueueSizeGetter(t *testing.T) {
+	// Reset getter
+	channelQueueSizeGetter = nil
+
+	// Test with no getter set
+	sizes := GetChannelQueueSizes()
+	if len(sizes) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected empty map when no getter set, got %d items", len(sizes))
+	}
+
+	// Set a test getter
+	testData := map[string]int{
+		"test_channel_1": 5,
+		"test_channel_2": 10,
+	}
+
+	SetChannelQueueSizeGetter(func() map[string]int {
+		return testData
+	})
+
+	// Test with getter set
+	sizes = GetChannelQueueSizes()
+	if len(sizes) != 2 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected 2 channels, got %d", len(sizes))
+	}
+
+	if sizes["test_channel_1"] != 5 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected test_channel_1 size 5, got %d", sizes["test_channel_1"])
+	}
+
+	if sizes["test_channel_2"] != 10 {
+		t.Errorf("Expected test_channel_2 size 10, got %d", sizes["test_channel_2"])
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/pkg/stats/methods.go b/internal/pkg/stats/methods.go
index 182fa7f3..7e09a2a1 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/stats/methods.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/stats/methods.go
@@ -275,3 +275,17 @@ func CFMitigatedIncr() {
 		globalPromStats.cfMitigated.WithLabelValues(config.Get().JobPrometheus, hostname, version).Inc()
 	}
 }
+
+//////////////////////////
+// ComponentQueueSizes  //
+//////////////////////////
+
+// ComponentQueueSizesUpdate updates all component queue sizes in Prometheus metrics.
+func ComponentQueueSizesUpdate() {
+	if globalPromStats != nil {
+		channelQueues := GetChannelQueueSizes()
+		for component, size := range channelQueues {
+			globalPromStats.componentQueueSizes.WithLabelValues(config.Get().JobPrometheus, hostname, version, component).Set(float64(size))
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/pkg/stats/prometheus.go b/internal/pkg/stats/prometheus.go
index 1179c1ac..1693ab84 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/stats/prometheus.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/stats/prometheus.go
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ type prometheusStats struct {
 	warcWritingQueueSize   *prometheus.GaugeVec
 	cfMitigated            *prometheus.GaugeVec
 
+	// Component queue sizes
+	componentQueueSizes *prometheus.GaugeVec
+
 	// Dedup WARC metrics
 	dataTotalBytes               *prometheus.GaugeVec
 	cdxDedupeTotalBytes          *prometheus.GaugeVec
@@ -135,6 +138,10 @@ func newPrometheusStats() *prometheusStats {
 			prometheus.GaugeOpts{Name: config.Get().PrometheusPrefix + "cf_challenge_pages_seen", Help: "Total number of CF challenge pages seen"},
 			[]string{"project", "hostname", "version"},
 		),
+		componentQueueSizes: prometheus.NewGaugeVec(
+			prometheus.GaugeOpts{Name: config.Get().PrometheusPrefix + "component_queue_size", Help: "Size of component queues in the processing pipeline"},
+			[]string{"project", "hostname", "version", "component"},
+		),
 	}
 }
 
@@ -155,6 +162,7 @@ func registerPrometheusMetrics() {
 	prometheus.MustRegister(globalPromStats.warcWritingQueueSize)
 	prometheus.MustRegister(globalPromStats.meanWaitOnFeedbackTime)
 	prometheus.MustRegister(globalPromStats.cfMitigated)
+	prometheus.MustRegister(globalPromStats.componentQueueSizes)
 
 	// Register dedup WARC metrics
 	prometheus.MustRegister(globalPromStats.dataTotalBytes)
diff --git a/internal/pkg/stats/stats.go b/internal/pkg/stats/stats.go
index f508eafd..cc14977e 100644
--- a/internal/pkg/stats/stats.go
+++ b/internal/pkg/stats/stats.go
@@ -127,6 +127,12 @@ func GetMapTUI() map[string]any {
 		"WARC data total (GB)":       float64(globalStats.WARCDataTotalBytes.Load()) / 1e9,
 	}
 
+	// Add channel queue sizes
+	channelQueueSizes := GetChannelQueueSizes()
+	for name, size := range channelQueueSizes {
+		result["Queue: "+name] = size
+	}
+
 	// Only show CDX dedupe stats if activated and has data
 	if config.Get().CDXDedupeServer != "" {
 		if dedupeBytes := globalStats.WARCCDXDedupeTotalBytes.Load(); dedupeBytes > 0 {