diff --git a/cmd/metrics-v2.go b/cmd/metrics-v2.go
index a38c0eeca..a71e324a6 100644
--- a/cmd/metrics-v2.go
+++ b/cmd/metrics-v2.go
@@ -346,6 +346,16 @@ func getBucketObjectDistributionMD() MetricDescription {
 		Type:      histogramMetric,
 	}
 }
+func getInternodeFailedRequests() MetricDescription {
+	return MetricDescription{
+		Namespace: interNodeMetricNamespace,
+		Subsystem: trafficSubsystem,
+		Name:      errorsTotal,
+		Help:      "Total number of failed internode calls.",
+		Type:      counterMetric,
+	}
+}
+
 func getInterNodeSentBytesMD() MetricDescription {
 	return MetricDescription{
 		Namespace: interNodeMetricNamespace,
@@ -982,6 +992,10 @@ func getNetworkMetrics() MetricsGroup {
 	return MetricsGroup{
 		Metrics: []Metric{},
 		initialize: func(ctx context.Context, metrics *MetricsGroup) {
+			metrics.Metrics = append(metrics.Metrics, Metric{
+				Description: getInternodeFailedRequests(),
+				Value:       float64(loadAndResetRPCNetworkErrsCounter()),
+			})
 			connStats := globalConnStats.toServerConnStats()
 			metrics.Metrics = append(metrics.Metrics, Metric{
 				Description: getInterNodeSentBytesMD(),
diff --git a/cmd/rest/client.go b/cmd/rest/client.go
index 79629d442..ccac83ce8 100644
--- a/cmd/rest/client.go
+++ b/cmd/rest/client.go
@@ -42,6 +42,19 @@ const (
 	closed
 )
 
+// Hold the number of failed RPC calls due to networking errors
+var networkErrsCounter uint64
+
+// GetNetworkErrsCounter returns the number of failed RPC requests
+func GetNetworkErrsCounter() uint64 {
+	return atomic.LoadUint64(&networkErrsCounter)
+}
+
+// ResetNetworkErrsCounter resets the number of failed RPC requests
+func ResetNetworkErrsCounter() {
+	atomic.StoreUint64(&networkErrsCounter, 0)
+}
+
 // NetworkError - error type in case of errors related to http/transport
 // for ex. connection refused, connection reset, dns resolution failure etc.
 // All errors returned by storage-rest-server (ex errFileNotFound, errDiskNotFound) are not considered to be network errors.
@@ -120,6 +133,7 @@ func (c *Client) Call(ctx context.Context, method string, values url.Values, bod
 	resp, err := c.httpClient.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
 		if c.HealthCheckFn != nil && xnet.IsNetworkOrHostDown(err, c.ExpectTimeouts) {
+			atomic.AddUint64(&networkErrsCounter, 1)
 			if c.MarkOffline() {
 				logger.LogIf(ctx, fmt.Errorf("Marking %s temporary offline; caused by %w", c.url.String(), err))
 			}
diff --git a/cmd/utils.go b/cmd/utils.go
index 3e392d156..8a0fa6897 100644
--- a/cmd/utils.go
+++ b/cmd/utils.go
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/gorilla/mux"
 	xhttp "github.com/minio/minio/cmd/http"
 	"github.com/minio/minio/cmd/logger"
+	"github.com/minio/minio/cmd/rest"
 	"github.com/minio/minio/pkg/certs"
 	"github.com/minio/minio/pkg/handlers"
 	"github.com/minio/minio/pkg/madmin"
@@ -883,3 +884,10 @@ func decodeDirObject(object string) string {
 	}
 	return object
 }
+
+// This is used by metrics to show the number of failed RPC calls
+// between internodes
+func loadAndResetRPCNetworkErrsCounter() uint64 {
+	defer rest.ResetNetworkErrsCounter()
+	return rest.GetNetworkErrsCounter()
+}