diff --git a/Godeps/Godeps.json b/Godeps/Godeps.json
index acff4d96b3a..8da863d2d0f 100644
--- a/Godeps/Godeps.json
+++ b/Godeps/Godeps.json
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/juju/ratelimit",
-			"Rev": "772f5c38e468398c4511514f4f6aa9a4185bc0a0"
+			"Rev": "77ed1c8a01217656d2080ad51981f6e99adaa177"
 		},
 		{
 			"ImportPath": "github.com/kardianos/osext",
diff --git a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/juju/ratelimit/ratelimit.go b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/juju/ratelimit/ratelimit.go
index a36ffc74fec..3ef32fbcc09 100644
--- a/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/juju/ratelimit/ratelimit.go
+++ b/Godeps/_workspace/src/github.com/juju/ratelimit/ratelimit.go
@@ -8,10 +8,10 @@
 package ratelimit
 
 import (
+	"math"
 	"strconv"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
-	"math"
 )
 
 // Bucket represents a token bucket that fills at a predetermined rate.
@@ -171,6 +171,30 @@ func (tb *Bucket) takeAvailable(now time.Time, count int64) int64 {
 	return count
 }
 
+// Available returns the number of available tokens. It will be negative
+// when there are consumers waiting for tokens. Note that if this
+// returns greater than zero, it does not guarantee that calls that take
+// tokens from the buffer will succeed, as the number of available
+// tokens could have changed in the meantime. This method is intended
+// primarily for metrics reporting and debugging.
+func (tb *Bucket) Available() int64 {
+	return tb.available(time.Now())
+}
+
+// available is the internal version of available - it takes the current time as
+// an argument to enable easy testing.
+func (tb *Bucket) available(now time.Time) int64 {
+	tb.mu.Lock()
+	defer tb.mu.Unlock()
+	tb.adjust(now)
+	return tb.avail
+}
+
+// Capacity returns the capacity that the bucket was created with.
+func (tb *Bucket) Capacity() int64 {
+	return tb.capacity
+}
+
 // Rate returns the fill rate of the bucket, in tokens per second.
 func (tb *Bucket) Rate() float64 {
 	return 1e9 * float64(tb.quantum) / float64(tb.fillInterval)