diff --git a/backend/pkg/commons/metrics/metrics.go b/backend/pkg/commons/metrics/metrics.go
index 10fe6b883..302ea5368 100644
--- a/backend/pkg/commons/metrics/metrics.go
+++ b/backend/pkg/commons/metrics/metrics.go
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ var (
 		Name: "notifications_sent",
 		Help: "Counter of notifications sent with the channel and notification type in the label",
 	}, []string{"channel", "status"})
+	State = promauto.NewGaugeVec(prometheus.GaugeOpts{
+		Name: "state",
+		Help: "Gauge for various states",
+	}, []string{"state"})
 )
 
 func init() {
diff --git a/backend/pkg/exporter/modules/dashboard_data.go b/backend/pkg/exporter/modules/dashboard_data.go
index 9f4eba281..0506799f7 100644
--- a/backend/pkg/exporter/modules/dashboard_data.go
+++ b/backend/pkg/exporter/modules/dashboard_data.go
@@ -725,6 +725,8 @@ func (d *dashboardData) backfillHeadEpochData(upToEpoch *uint64) (backfillResult
 					}
 					d.log.InfoWithFields(map[string]interface{}{"epoch start": datas[0].Epoch, "epoch end": lastEpoch}, "backfill, aggregated epoch data")
 				}
+
+				metrics.State.WithLabelValues("exporter_v2dash_last_exported_epoch").Set(float64(lastEpoch))
 			}
 
 			if lastEpoch%225 < epochFetchParallelism {
@@ -845,11 +847,11 @@ func (d *dashboardData) aggregatePerEpoch(updateRollingWindows bool, preventClea
 
 	err = errGroup.Wait()
 	if err != nil {
-		metrics.Errors.WithLabelValues("exporter_v2dash_agg_non_roling_fail").Inc()
+		metrics.Errors.WithLabelValues("exporter_v2dash_agg_non_rolling_fail").Inc()
 		return errors.Wrap(err, "failed to aggregate")
 	}
 	d.log.Infof("[time] all of epoch based aggregation took %v", time.Since(start))
-	metrics.TaskDuration.WithLabelValues("exporter_v2dash_agg_non_roling").Observe(time.Since(start).Seconds())
+	metrics.TaskDuration.WithLabelValues("exporter_v2dash_agg_non_rolling").Observe(time.Since(start).Seconds())
 
 	if updateRollingWindows {
 		// todo you could add it to the err group above IF no bootstrap is needed.
@@ -874,6 +876,8 @@ func (d *dashboardData) aggregatePerEpoch(updateRollingWindows bool, preventClea
 		}
 	}
 
+	metrics.State.WithLabelValues("exporter_v2dash_last_exported_epoch").Set(float64(currentExportedEpoch))
+
 	// clear old hourly aggregated epochs, do not remove epochs from epoch table here as these are needed for Mid aggregation
 	err = d.epochToHour.clearOldHourAggregations(int64(currentExportedEpoch - d.epochToHour.getHourRetentionDurationEpochs()))
 	if err != nil {
@@ -963,6 +967,8 @@ func (d *dashboardData) OnFinalizedCheckpoint(_ *constypes.StandardFinalizedChec
 		}
 	}
 
+	metrics.State.WithLabelValues("exporter_v2dash_last_finalized_epoch").Set(float64(res.Data.Finalized.Epoch))
+
 	d.headEpochQueue <- res.Data.Finalized.Epoch
 
 	return nil
diff --git a/backend/pkg/exporter/modules/dashboard_data_w_rolling.go b/backend/pkg/exporter/modules/dashboard_data_w_rolling.go
index cec5f6097..914fa44b7 100644
--- a/backend/pkg/exporter/modules/dashboard_data_w_rolling.go
+++ b/backend/pkg/exporter/modules/dashboard_data_w_rolling.go
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ func (d *RollingAggregator) aggregateInternal(days int, tableName string, curren
 	}
 
 	if bootstrap {
-		metrics.Errors.WithLabelValues(fmt.Sprintf("exporter_v2dash_agg_bootstrap_%dd", days)).Inc()
+		metrics.Tasks.WithLabelValues(fmt.Sprintf("exporter_v2dash_agg_bootstrap_%dd", days)).Inc()
 		d.log.Infof("rolling %dd bootstraping starting", days)
 
 		err = d.bootstrap(tx, days, tableName)
@@ -198,6 +198,8 @@ func (d *RollingAggregator) aggregateInternal(days int, tableName string, curren
 		}
 	}
 
+	metrics.State.WithLabelValues(fmt.Sprintf("exporter_v2dash_rolling_%dd_bounds_end", days)).Set(float64(sanityBounds.EpochEnd))
+
 	err = tx.Commit()
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.Wrap(err, "failed to commit transaction")
@@ -609,7 +611,7 @@ func AddToRollingCustom(tx *sqlx.Tx, custom CustomRolling) error {
 	case <-ctx.Done():
 		// Query took longer than x minutes, cancel and return error
 		cancel()
-
+		metrics.Errors.WithLabelValues("exporter_v2dash_bandaid").Inc()
 		if debugDeadlockBandaid {
 			_, err := db.AlloyWriter.Exec(`SELECT pg_cancel_backend(pid)
 			FROM pg_stat_activity