diff --git a/src/OpenTelemetry.Contrib.Instrumentation.EventCounters/Implementation/EventCounterListener.cs b/src/OpenTelemetry.Contrib.Instrumentation.EventCounters/Implementation/EventCounterListener.cs
index 98c9b1e79c..1588b2957e 100644
--- a/src/OpenTelemetry.Contrib.Instrumentation.EventCounters/Implementation/EventCounterListener.cs
+++ b/src/OpenTelemetry.Contrib.Instrumentation.EventCounters/Implementation/EventCounterListener.cs
@@ -231,6 +231,22 @@ private void ExtractAndPostMetric(string eventSourceName, IDictionary<string, ob
                             }
                         }
                     }
+                    else if (key.Equals("Metadata", StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase))
+                    {
+                        var metadata = payload.Value.ToString();
+                        if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(metadata))
+                        {
+                            var keyValuePairStrings = metadata.Split(',');
+                            foreach (var keyValuePairString in keyValuePairStrings)
+                            {
+                                var keyValuePair = keyValuePairString.Split(':');
+                                if (!metricTelemetry.Properties.ContainsKey(keyValuePair[0]))
+                                {
+                                    metricTelemetry.Properties.Add(keyValuePair[0], keyValuePair[1]);
+                                }
+                            }
+                        }
+                    }
                 }
 
                 if (calculateRate)
@@ -254,6 +270,11 @@ private void ExtractAndPostMetric(string eventSourceName, IDictionary<string, ob
                 metricTelemetry.DisplayName = string.IsNullOrEmpty(counterDisplayName) ? counterName : counterDisplayName;
                 metricTelemetry.EventSource = eventSourceName;
 
+                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(counterDisplayUnit))
+                {
+                    metricTelemetry.Properties.Add("DisplayUnits", counterDisplayUnit);
+                }
+
                 metricTelemetry.Count = actualCount;
                 this.telemetryPublisher.Publish(metricTelemetry);
             }
diff --git a/src/OpenTelemetry.Contrib.Instrumentation.EventCounters/Implementation/MetricTelemetry.cs b/src/OpenTelemetry.Contrib.Instrumentation.EventCounters/Implementation/MetricTelemetry.cs
index 12ad7ba7f6..af96b9a535 100644
--- a/src/OpenTelemetry.Contrib.Instrumentation.EventCounters/Implementation/MetricTelemetry.cs
+++ b/src/OpenTelemetry.Contrib.Instrumentation.EventCounters/Implementation/MetricTelemetry.cs
@@ -33,6 +33,11 @@ internal class MetricTelemetry
         /// </summary>
         public string EventSource { get; set; }
 
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Gets a dictionary of application-defined property names and values providing additional information about this metric.
+        /// </summary>
+        public Dictionary<string, string> Properties { get; } = new Dictionary<string, string>();
+
         /// <summary>
         /// Gets or sets sum of the values of the metric samples.
         /// </summary>
diff --git a/src/OpenTelemetry.Contrib.Instrumentation.EventCounters/README.md b/src/OpenTelemetry.Contrib.Instrumentation.EventCounters/README.md
index b89e805ae9..1dd23231d1 100644
--- a/src/OpenTelemetry.Contrib.Instrumentation.EventCounters/README.md
+++ b/src/OpenTelemetry.Contrib.Instrumentation.EventCounters/README.md
@@ -40,12 +40,12 @@ namespace DotnetMetrics
             using var meterprovider = Sdk.CreateMeterProviderBuilder()
                     .AddEventCounters(options =>
                     {
-                        options.AddEventSource("Microsoft-AspNetCore-Server-Kestrel")
-                            .WithCounters("total-connections", "connections-per-second")
-                            .With(
-                            "connections-per-second", 
-                            "The number of connections per update interval to the web server", 
-                            MetricType.LongSum);
+                      options.AddEventSource("Microsoft-AspNetCore-Server-Kestrel")
+                        .WithCounters("total-connections", "connections-per-second")
+                        .With(
+                        "connections-per-second",
+                        "The number of connections per update interval to the web server",
+                        MetricType.LongSum);
                     })
                     .AddConsoleExporter()
                     .Build();
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ builder.Services.AddOpenTelemetryMetrics(
                     .AddPrometheusExporter()
                     .AddEventCounters(options =>
                     {
-                        builder.Configuration.GetSection("Telemetry").Bind(options);                       
+                        builder.Configuration.GetSection("Telemetry").Bind(options);                     
                     }));
 
 var app = builder.Build();