diff --git a/tensorflow/python/eager/monitoring.py b/tensorflow/python/eager/monitoring.py
index 26d4d8a55b3..74d98558192 100644
--- a/tensorflow/python/eager/monitoring.py
+++ b/tensorflow/python/eager/monitoring.py
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import collections
+import functools
+import time
 
 from tensorflow.core.framework import summary_pb2
 from tensorflow.python import pywrap_tfe
@@ -428,3 +430,46 @@ class Sampler(Metric):
   def get_cell(self, *labels):
     """Retrieves the cell."""
     return SamplerCell(super(Sampler, self).get_cell(*labels))
+
+
+class MonitoredTimer(object):
+  """A context manager to measure the walltime and increment a Counter cell."""
+
+  def __init__(self, cell):
+    """Creates a new MonitoredTimer.
+
+    Args:
+      cell: the cell associated with the time metric that will be inremented.
+    """
+    self.cell = cell
+
+  def __enter__(self):
+    self.t = time.time()
+    return self
+
+  def __exit__(self, exception_type, exception_value, traceback):
+    del exception_type, exception_value, traceback
+    micro_seconds = (time.time() - self.t) * 1000000
+    self.cell.increase_by(int(micro_seconds))
+
+
+def monitored_timer(cell):
+  """A function decorator for adding MonitoredTimer support.
+
+  Arguments:
+    cell: the cell associated with the time metric that will be inremented.
+  Returns:
+    A decorator that measure the function runtime and increment the specified
+    counter cell.
+  """
+
+  def actual_decorator(func):
+
+    @functools.wraps(func)
+    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
+      with MonitoredTimer(cell):
+        return func(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    return wrapper
+
+  return actual_decorator
diff --git a/tensorflow/python/eager/monitoring_test.py b/tensorflow/python/eager/monitoring_test.py
index 3f601735ef2..7cb8c0c2cd1 100644
--- a/tensorflow/python/eager/monitoring_test.py
+++ b/tensorflow/python/eager/monitoring_test.py
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ from __future__ import absolute_import
 from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function
 
+import time
+
 from tensorflow.python.eager import monitoring
 from tensorflow.python.eager import test
 from tensorflow.python.framework import errors
@@ -100,6 +102,26 @@ class MonitoringTest(test_util.TensorFlowTestCase):
     self.assertEqual(histogram_proto1.num, 2.0)
     self.assertEqual(histogram_proto1.sum, 6.0)
 
+  def test_context_manager(self):
+    counter = monitoring.Counter('test/ctxmgr', 'test context manager', 'slot')
+    with monitoring.MonitoredTimer(counter.get_cell('short')):
+      time.sleep(0.001)
+    with monitoring.MonitoredTimer(counter.get_cell('long')):
+      time.sleep(0.02)
+    self.assertGreater(
+        counter.get_cell('long').value(),
+        counter.get_cell('short').value())
+
+  def test_function_decorator(self):
+    counter = monitoring.Counter('test/funcdecorator', 'test func decorator')
+
+    @monitoring.monitored_timer(counter.get_cell())
+    def timed_function(seconds):
+      time.sleep(seconds)
+
+    timed_function(0.001)
+    self.assertGreater(counter.get_cell().value(), 1000)
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
   test.main()