diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/CustomMetric.java b/sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/CustomMetric.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..bbd35ac94677
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/CustomMetric.java
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.spark.sql.connector;
+
+import org.apache.spark.annotation.Evolving;
+
+/**
+ * A custom metric. Data source can define supported custom metrics using this interface.
+ * During query execution, Spark will collect the task metrics using {@link CustomTaskMetric}
+ * and combine the metrics at the driver side. How to combine task metrics is defined by the
+ * metric class with the same metric name.
+ *
+ * @since 3.2.0
+ */
+@Evolving
+public interface CustomMetric {
+    /**
+     * Returns the name of custom metric.
+     */
+    String name();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the description of custom metric.
+     */
+    String description();
+
+    /**
+     * The initial value of this metric.
+     */
+    long initialValue = 0L;
+
+    /**
+     * Given an array of task metric values, returns aggregated final metric value.
+     */
+    String aggregateTaskMetrics(long[] taskMetrics);
+}
diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/CustomTaskMetric.java b/sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/CustomTaskMetric.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..47644a3267ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/CustomTaskMetric.java
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/*
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.spark.sql.connector;
+
+import org.apache.spark.annotation.Evolving;
+import org.apache.spark.sql.connector.read.PartitionReader;
+
+/**
+ * A custom task metric. This is a logical representation of a metric reported by data sources
+ * at the executor side. During query execution, Spark will collect the task metrics per partition
+ * by {@link PartitionReader} and update internal metrics based on collected metric values.
+ * For streaming query, Spark will collect and combine metrics for a final result per micro batch.
+ *
+ * The metrics will be gathered during query execution back to the driver and then combined. How
+ * the task metrics are combined is defined by corresponding {@link CustomMetric} with same metric
+ * name. The final result will be shown up in the data source scan operator in Spark UI.
+ *
+ * @since 3.2.0
+ */
+@Evolving
+public interface CustomTaskMetric {
+    /**
+     * Returns the name of custom task metric.
+     */
+    String name();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the long value of custom task metric.
+     */
+    long value();
+}
diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/read/PartitionReader.java b/sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/read/PartitionReader.java
index 23fbd95800e2..dfecb77c669b 100644
--- a/sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/read/PartitionReader.java
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/read/PartitionReader.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 
 import org.apache.spark.annotation.Evolving;
+import org.apache.spark.sql.connector.CustomTaskMetric;
 
 /**
  * A partition reader returned by {@link PartitionReaderFactory#createReader(InputPartition)} or
@@ -48,4 +49,12 @@ public interface PartitionReader<T> extends Closeable {
    * Return the current record. This method should return same value until `next` is called.
    */
   T get();
+
+  /**
+   * Returns an array of custom task metrics. By default it returns empty array.
+   */
+  default CustomTaskMetric[] currentMetricsValues() {
+    CustomTaskMetric[] NO_METRICS = {};
+    return NO_METRICS;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/read/Scan.java b/sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/read/Scan.java
index 4146f217985b..b70a656c492a 100644
--- a/sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/read/Scan.java
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/main/java/org/apache/spark/sql/connector/read/Scan.java
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 package org.apache.spark.sql.connector.read;
 
 import org.apache.spark.annotation.Evolving;
+import org.apache.spark.sql.connector.CustomMetric;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.connector.read.streaming.ContinuousStream;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.connector.read.streaming.MicroBatchStream;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.types.StructType;
@@ -102,4 +103,13 @@ default MicroBatchStream toMicroBatchStream(String checkpointLocation) {
   default ContinuousStream toContinuousStream(String checkpointLocation) {
     throw new UnsupportedOperationException(description() + ": Continuous scan are not supported");
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns an array of supported custom metrics with name and description.
+   * By default it returns empty array.
+   */
+  default CustomMetric[] supportedCustomMetrics() {
+    CustomMetric[] NO_METRICS = {};
+    return NO_METRICS;
+  }
 }