diff --git a/airflow/dag_processing/processor.py b/airflow/dag_processing/processor.py
index c11243e76e6f..d8a1f69850b8 100644
--- a/airflow/dag_processing/processor.py
+++ b/airflow/dag_processing/processor.py
@@ -435,6 +435,7 @@ def manage_slas(self, dag: DAG, session: Session = None) -> None:
                             timestamp=ts,
                         )
                         sla_misses.append(sla_miss)
+                        Stats.incr('sla_missed')
             if sla_misses:
                 session.add_all(sla_misses)
         session.commit()
diff --git a/docs/apache-airflow/logging-monitoring/metrics.rst b/docs/apache-airflow/logging-monitoring/metrics.rst
index 454f08507f6f..4ca6c985a510 100644
--- a/docs/apache-airflow/logging-monitoring/metrics.rst
+++ b/docs/apache-airflow/logging-monitoring/metrics.rst
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ Name                                        Description
 ``scheduler.critical_section_busy``         Count of times a scheduler process tried to get a lock on the critical
                                             section (needed to send tasks to the executor) and found it locked by
                                             another process.
+``sla_missed``                              Number of SLA misses
 ``sla_callback_notification_failure``       Number of failed SLA miss callback notification attempts
 ``sla_email_notification_failure``          Number of failed SLA miss email notification attempts
 ``ti.start.<dag_id>.<task_id>``             Number of started task in a given dag. Similar to <job_name>_start but for task
diff --git a/tests/dag_processing/test_processor.py b/tests/dag_processing/test_processor.py
index e2f9165131f2..eb122698f4d0 100644
--- a/tests/dag_processing/test_processor.py
+++ b/tests/dag_processing/test_processor.py
@@ -196,7 +196,8 @@ def test_dag_file_processor_sla_miss_callback_sent_notification(self, create_dum
 
         sla_callback.assert_not_called()
 
-    def test_dag_file_processor_sla_miss_doesnot_raise_integrity_error(self, dag_maker):
+    @mock.patch('airflow.dag_processing.processor.Stats.incr')
+    def test_dag_file_processor_sla_miss_doesnot_raise_integrity_error(self, mock_stats_incr, dag_maker):
         """
         Test that the dag file processor does not try to insert already existing item into the database
         """
@@ -229,6 +230,7 @@ def test_dag_file_processor_sla_miss_doesnot_raise_integrity_error(self, dag_mak
             .count()
         )
         assert sla_miss_count == 1
+        mock_stats_incr.assert_called_with('sla_missed')
         # Now call manage_slas and see that it runs without errors
         # because of existing SlaMiss above.
         # Since this is run often, it's possible that it runs before another