diff --git a/db/db_impl/db_impl_write.cc b/db/db_impl/db_impl_write.cc
index a39ac014559..3893b28bd15 100644
--- a/db/db_impl/db_impl_write.cc
+++ b/db/db_impl/db_impl_write.cc
@@ -1147,6 +1147,7 @@ Status DBImpl::WriteToWAL(const WriteThread::WriteGroup& write_group,
   // Same holds for all in the batch group
   size_t write_with_wal = 0;
   WriteBatch* to_be_cached_state = nullptr;
+  StopWatch write_sw(env_, stats_, DB_WRITE_WAL_TIME);
   WriteBatch* merged_batch = MergeBatch(write_group, &tmp_batch_,
                                         &write_with_wal, &to_be_cached_state);
   if (merged_batch == write_group.leader->batches[0]) {
@@ -1217,6 +1218,7 @@ Status DBImpl::ConcurrentWriteToWAL(const WriteThread::WriteGroup& write_group,
   WriteBatch tmp_batch;
   size_t write_with_wal = 0;
   WriteBatch* to_be_cached_state = nullptr;
+  StopWatch write_sw(env_, stats_, DB_WRITE_WAL_TIME);
   WriteBatch* merged_batch =
       MergeBatch(write_group, &tmp_batch, &write_with_wal, &to_be_cached_state);
 
diff --git a/include/rocksdb/statistics.h b/include/rocksdb/statistics.h
index 34893111933..7e3cc36fe6c 100644
--- a/include/rocksdb/statistics.h
+++ b/include/rocksdb/statistics.h
@@ -427,6 +427,7 @@ enum Histograms : uint32_t {
   // Time spent flushing memtable to disk
   FLUSH_TIME,
   SST_BATCH_SIZE,
+  DB_WRITE_WAL_TIME,
 
   HISTOGRAM_ENUM_MAX,
 };
diff --git a/monitoring/statistics.cc b/monitoring/statistics.cc
index f7b117b6f88..b36609e27d8 100644
--- a/monitoring/statistics.cc
+++ b/monitoring/statistics.cc
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ const std::vector<std::pair<Histograms, std::string>> HistogramsNameMap = {
     {BLOB_DB_DECOMPRESSION_MICROS, "rocksdb.blobdb.decompression.micros"},
     {FLUSH_TIME, "rocksdb.db.flush.micros"},
     {SST_BATCH_SIZE, "rocksdb.sst.batch.size"},
+    {DB_WRITE_WAL_TIME, "rocksdb.db.write.wal.time"},
 };
 
 } // namespace rocksdb