diff --git a/components/server/src/installation-admin/installation-admin-controller.ts b/components/server/src/installation-admin/installation-admin-controller.ts
index b1b896390e5282..33eeb28ba6fde4 100644
--- a/components/server/src/installation-admin/installation-admin-controller.ts
+++ b/components/server/src/installation-admin/installation-admin-controller.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 import { injectable, inject } from "inversify";
 import * as express from "express";
+import * as opentracing from "opentracing";
 import { InstallationAdminTelemetryDataProvider } from "./telemetry-data-provider";
 
 @injectable()
@@ -17,7 +18,14 @@ export class InstallationAdminController {
         const app = express();
 
         app.get("/data", async (req: express.Request, res: express.Response) => {
-            res.status(200).json(await this.telemetryDataProvider.getTelemetryData());
+            const spanCtx =
+                opentracing.globalTracer().extract(opentracing.FORMAT_HTTP_HEADERS, req.headers) || undefined;
+            const span = opentracing.globalTracer().startSpan("telemetryDataEndpoint", { childOf: spanCtx });
+            try {
+                res.status(200).json(await this.telemetryDataProvider.getTelemetryData());
+            } finally {
+                span.finish();
+            }
         });
 
         return app;
diff --git a/components/server/src/installation-admin/telemetry-data-provider.ts b/components/server/src/installation-admin/telemetry-data-provider.ts
index 2538ff90ff1dd8..6bab1545f3fe46 100644
--- a/components/server/src/installation-admin/telemetry-data-provider.ts
+++ b/components/server/src/installation-admin/telemetry-data-provider.ts
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import { injectable, inject } from "inversify";
 
 import { TelemetryData } from "@gitpod/gitpod-protocol";
+import * as opentracing from "opentracing";
 import { InstallationAdminDB, UserDB, WorkspaceDB } from "@gitpod/gitpod-db/lib";
 
 @injectable()
@@ -16,13 +17,17 @@ export class InstallationAdminTelemetryDataProvider {
     @inject(WorkspaceDB) protected readonly workspaceDb: WorkspaceDB;
 
     async getTelemetryData(): Promise<TelemetryData> {
-        const data: TelemetryData = {
-            installationAdmin: await this.installationAdminDb.getData(),
-            totalUsers: 0, //await this.userDb.getUserCount(true),
-            totalWorkspaces: 0, //await this.workspaceDb.getWorkspaceCount(),
-            totalInstances: 0, //await this.workspaceDb.getInstanceCount(),
-        } as TelemetryData;
-
-        return data;
+        const span = opentracing.globalTracer().startSpan("getTelemetryData");
+        try {
+            const data: TelemetryData = {
+                installationAdmin: await this.installationAdminDb.getData(),
+                totalUsers: await this.userDb.getUserCount(true),
+                totalWorkspaces: await this.workspaceDb.getWorkspaceCount(),
+                totalInstances: await this.workspaceDb.getInstanceCount(),
+            } as TelemetryData;
+            return data;
+        } finally {
+            span.finish();
+        }
     }
 }