diff --git a/mvcc/metrics.go b/mvcc/metrics.go
index a65fe59b9..895522817 100644
--- a/mvcc/metrics.go
+++ b/mvcc/metrics.go
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ var (
 			Buckets: prometheus.ExponentialBuckets(100, 2, 14),
 		})
 
-	dbTotalSize = prometheus.NewGaugeFunc(prometheus.GaugeOpts{
+	dbTotalSizeDebugging = prometheus.NewGaugeFunc(prometheus.GaugeOpts{
 		Namespace: "etcd_debugging",
 		Subsystem: "mvcc",
 		Name:      "db_total_size_in_bytes",
@@ -143,9 +143,21 @@ var (
 			return reportDbTotalSizeInBytes()
 		},
 	)
+	dbTotalSize = prometheus.NewGaugeFunc(prometheus.GaugeOpts{
+		Namespace: "etcd",
+		Subsystem: "mvcc",
+		Name:      "db_total_size_in_bytes",
+		Help:      "Total size of the underlying database in bytes.",
+	},
+		func() float64 {
+			reportDbTotalSizeInBytesMu.RLock()
+			defer reportDbTotalSizeInBytesMu.RUnlock()
+			return reportDbTotalSizeInBytes()
+		},
+	)
 	// overridden by mvcc initialization
 	reportDbTotalSizeInBytesMu sync.RWMutex
-	reportDbTotalSizeInBytes   func() float64 = func() float64 { return 0 }
+	reportDbTotalSizeInBytes   = func() float64 { return 0 }
 )
 
 func init() {
@@ -162,6 +174,7 @@ func init() {
 	prometheus.MustRegister(indexCompactionPauseDurations)
 	prometheus.MustRegister(dbCompactionPauseDurations)
 	prometheus.MustRegister(dbCompactionTotalDurations)
+	prometheus.MustRegister(dbTotalSizeDebugging)
 	prometheus.MustRegister(dbTotalSize)
 }