diff --git a/etcdserver/api/membership/metrics.go b/etcdserver/api/membership/metrics.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b3212bc80cdb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etcdserver/api/membership/metrics.go
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+// Copyright 2018 The etcd Authors
+//
+// Licensed 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 membership
+
+import "github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
+
+var (
+	ClusterVersionMetrics = prometheus.NewGaugeVec(prometheus.GaugeOpts{
+		Namespace: "etcd",
+		Subsystem: "cluster",
+		Name:      "version",
+		Help:      "Which version is running. 1 for 'cluster_version' label with current cluster version",
+	},
+		[]string{"cluster_version"})
+)
+
+func init() {
+	prometheus.MustRegister(ClusterVersionMetrics)
+}
diff --git a/etcdserver/membership/cluster.go b/etcdserver/membership/cluster.go
index 4f0b1572ef68..a04bf1d3a3f0 100644
--- a/etcdserver/membership/cluster.go
+++ b/etcdserver/membership/cluster.go
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/coreos/etcd/version"
 
 	"github.com/coreos/go-semver/semver"
+	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
 )
 
 // RaftCluster is a list of Members that belong to the same raft cluster
@@ -376,6 +377,7 @@ func (c *RaftCluster) SetVersion(ver *semver.Version, onSet func(*semver.Version
 	if c.be != nil {
 		mustSaveClusterVersionToBackend(c.be, ver)
 	}
+	ClusterVersionMetrics.With(prometheus.Labels{"cluster_version": ver.String()}).Set(1)
 	onSet(ver)
 }
 
diff --git a/etcdserver/server.go b/etcdserver/server.go
index f46e91d3469b..581acd599fff 100644
--- a/etcdserver/server.go
+++ b/etcdserver/server.go
@@ -602,6 +602,7 @@ func (s *EtcdServer) start() {
 	s.leaderChanged = make(chan struct{})
 	if s.ClusterVersion() != nil {
 		plog.Infof("starting server... [version: %v, cluster version: %v]", version.Version, version.Cluster(s.ClusterVersion().String()))
+		membership.ClusterVersionMetrics.With(prometheus.Labels{"cluster_version": s.ClusterVersion().String()}).Set(1)
 	} else {
 		plog.Infof("starting server... [version: %v, cluster version: to_be_decided]", version.Version)
 	}