diff --git a/pulsar-broker/src/test/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/service/BrokerServiceTest.java b/pulsar-broker/src/test/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/service/BrokerServiceTest.java
index 34d1d15764d39..a22418ad8e668 100644
--- a/pulsar-broker/src/test/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/service/BrokerServiceTest.java
+++ b/pulsar-broker/src/test/java/org/apache/pulsar/broker/service/BrokerServiceTest.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
+import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.lang.reflect.Array;
 import java.lang.reflect.Field;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
@@ -67,6 +68,7 @@
 import org.apache.bookkeeper.mledger.ManagedLedgerException;
 import org.apache.bookkeeper.mledger.impl.ManagedLedgerFactoryImpl;
 import org.apache.bookkeeper.mledger.impl.ManagedLedgerImpl;
+import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
 import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
 import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
@@ -102,6 +104,10 @@
 import org.apache.pulsar.common.protocol.Commands;
 import org.apache.pulsar.common.util.netty.EventLoopUtil;
 import org.awaitility.Awaitility;
+import org.apache.zookeeper.KeeperException;
+import org.apache.zookeeper.MockZooKeeper;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.client.JerseyClient;
+import org.glassfish.jersey.client.JerseyClientBuilder;
 import org.testng.Assert;
 import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass;
 import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass;
@@ -1461,4 +1467,117 @@ public void testDuplicateAcknowledgement() throws Exception {
         assertEquals(admin.topics().getStats(topicName).getSubscriptions()
                 .get("sub-1").getUnackedMessages(), 0);
     }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testMetricsPersistentTopicLoadFails() throws Exception {
+        final String namespace = "prop/" + UUID.randomUUID().toString().replaceAll("-", "");
+        String topic = "persistent://" + namespace + "/topic1_" + UUID.randomUUID();
+        admin.namespaces().createNamespace(namespace);
+        admin.topics().createNonPartitionedTopic(topic);
+        admin.topics().unload(topic);
+
+        // Inject an error that makes the topic load fails.
+        AtomicBoolean failMarker = new AtomicBoolean(true);
+        mockZooKeeper.failConditional(KeeperException.Code.NODEEXISTS, (op, path) -> {
+            if (failMarker.get() && op.equals(MockZooKeeper.Op.SET) &&
+                    path.endsWith(TopicName.get(topic).getPersistenceNamingEncoding())) {
+                return true;
+            }
+            return false;
+        });
+
+        // Do test
+        Thread.sleep(1000 * 3);
+        CompletableFuture<Producer<byte[]>> producer = pulsarClient.newProducer().topic(topic).createAsync();
+        JerseyClient httpClient = JerseyClientBuilder.createClient();
+        Awaitility.await().until(() -> {
+            String response = httpClient.target(pulsar.getWebServiceAddress()).path("/metrics/")
+                    .request().get(String.class);
+            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new StringReader(response));
+            String line;
+            String metricsLine = null;
+            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
+                if (StringUtils.isBlank(line)) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                if (line.startsWith("#")) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                if (line.contains("topic_load_failed")) {
+                    metricsLine = line;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            log.info("topic_load_failed: {}", metricsLine);
+            if (metricsLine == null) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            reader.close();
+            String[] parts = metricsLine.split(" ");
+            Double value = Double.valueOf(parts[parts.length - 1]);
+            return value >= 1D;
+        });
+
+        // Remove the injection.
+        failMarker.set(false);
+        // cleanup.
+        httpClient.close();
+        producer.join().close();
+        admin.topics().delete(topic);
+        admin.namespaces().deleteNamespace(namespace);
+    }
+
+    @Test
+    public void testMetricsNonPersistentTopicLoadFails() throws Exception {
+        final String namespace = "prop/" + UUID.randomUUID().toString().replaceAll("-", "");
+        String topic = "non-persistent://" + namespace + "/topic1_" + UUID.randomUUID();
+        admin.namespaces().createNamespace(namespace);
+
+        // Inject an error that makes the topic load fails.
+        pulsar.getConfiguration().setEnableNonPersistentTopics(false);
+
+        // Do test.
+        CompletableFuture<Producer<byte[]>> producer = pulsarClient.newProducer().topic(topic).createAsync();
+        JerseyClient httpClient = JerseyClientBuilder.createClient();
+        Awaitility.await().until(() -> {
+            String response = httpClient.target(pulsar.getWebServiceAddress()).path("/metrics/")
+                    .request().get(String.class);
+            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new StringReader(response));
+            String line;
+            String metricsLine = null;
+            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
+                if (StringUtils.isBlank(line)) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                if (line.startsWith("#")) {
+                    continue;
+                }
+                if (line.contains("topic_load_failed")) {
+                    metricsLine = line;
+                    break;
+                }
+            }
+            log.info("topic_load_failed: {}", metricsLine);
+            if (metricsLine == null) {
+                return false;
+            }
+            reader.close();
+            String[] parts = metricsLine.split(" ");
+            Double value = Double.valueOf(parts[parts.length - 1]);
+            return value >= 1D;
+        });
+
+        // Remove the injection.
+        pulsar.getConfiguration().setEnableNonPersistentTopics(true);
+
+        // cleanup.
+        httpClient.close();
+        try {
+            producer.join().close();
+        } catch (Exception ex) {
+            // The producer creation failed, so skip to close it.
+        }
+        admin.topics().delete(topic);
+        admin.namespaces().deleteNamespace(namespace);
+    }
 }