diff --git a/pkg/scheduler/metrics/metrics.go b/pkg/scheduler/metrics/metrics.go
index 43c2738ee69..71512e0c446 100644
--- a/pkg/scheduler/metrics/metrics.go
+++ b/pkg/scheduler/metrics/metrics.go
@@ -211,7 +211,6 @@ var (
 			Help:           "Total preemption attempts in the cluster till now",
 			StabilityLevel: metrics.ALPHA,
 		})
-
 	pendingPods = metrics.NewGaugeVec(
 		&metrics.GaugeOpts{
 			Subsystem:      SchedulerSubsystem,
@@ -219,6 +218,13 @@ var (
 			Help:           "Number of pending pods, by the queue type. 'active' means number of pods in activeQ; 'backoff' means number of pods in backoffQ; 'unschedulable' means number of pods in unschedulableQ.",
 			StabilityLevel: metrics.ALPHA,
 		}, []string{"queue"})
+	SchedulerGoroutines = metrics.NewGaugeVec(
+		&metrics.GaugeOpts{
+			Subsystem:      SchedulerSubsystem,
+			Name:           "scheduler_goroutines",
+			Help:           "Number of running goroutines split by the work they do such as binding.",
+			StabilityLevel: metrics.ALPHA,
+		}, []string{"work"})
 
 	PodSchedulingDuration = metrics.NewHistogram(
 		&metrics.HistogramOpts{
@@ -279,6 +285,7 @@ var (
 		PodSchedulingAttempts,
 		FrameworkExtensionPointDuration,
 		SchedulerQueueIncomingPods,
+		SchedulerGoroutines,
 	}
 )
 
diff --git a/pkg/scheduler/scheduler.go b/pkg/scheduler/scheduler.go
index 0c0a19b9d10..4d175135924 100644
--- a/pkg/scheduler/scheduler.go
+++ b/pkg/scheduler/scheduler.go
@@ -675,6 +675,9 @@ func (sched *Scheduler) scheduleOne(ctx context.Context) {
 	}
 	// bind the pod to its host asynchronously (we can do this b/c of the assumption step above).
 	go func() {
+		metrics.SchedulerGoroutines.WithLabelValues("binding").Inc()
+		defer metrics.SchedulerGoroutines.WithLabelValues("binding").Dec()
+
 		// Bind volumes first before Pod
 		if !allBound {
 			err := sched.bindVolumes(assumedPod)