diff --git a/etcdserver/api/membership/cluster.go b/etcdserver/api/membership/cluster.go
index 6f4b96a44f1..65ea46edc54 100644
--- a/etcdserver/api/membership/cluster.go
+++ b/etcdserver/api/membership/cluster.go
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ import (
 	"go.etcd.io/etcd/version"
 
 	"github.com/coreos/go-semver/semver"
+	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
 	"go.uber.org/zap"
 )
 
@@ -500,6 +501,7 @@ func (c *RaftCluster) SetVersion(ver *semver.Version, onSet func(*zap.Logger, *s
 	if c.be != nil {
 		mustSaveClusterVersionToBackend(c.be, ver)
 	}
+	ClusterVersionMetrics.With(prometheus.Labels{"cluster_version": ver.String()}).Set(1)
 	onSet(c.lg, ver)
 }
 
diff --git a/etcdserver/api/membership/metrics.go b/etcdserver/api/membership/metrics.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b3212bc80cd
--- /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/server.go b/etcdserver/server.go
index dafb0fad3f6..5a97b8341ef 100644
--- a/etcdserver/server.go
+++ b/etcdserver/server.go
@@ -768,6 +768,7 @@ func (s *EtcdServer) start() {
 		} else {
 			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 {
 		if lg != nil {
 			lg.Info(
diff --git a/tests/e2e/etcd_release_upgrade_test.go b/tests/e2e/etcd_release_upgrade_test.go
index bb8cb7853f2..6a8e5b13ac6 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/etcd_release_upgrade_test.go
+++ b/tests/e2e/etcd_release_upgrade_test.go
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ package e2e
 import (
 	"fmt"
 	"os"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -101,6 +102,15 @@ func TestReleaseUpgrade(t *testing.T) {
 			}
 		}
 	}
+
+	// expect upgraded cluster version
+	ver := version.Version
+	if strings.HasSuffix(ver, "+git") {
+		ver = strings.Replace(ver, "+git", "", 1)
+	}
+	if err := cURLGet(cx.epc, cURLReq{endpoint: "/metrics", expected: fmt.Sprintf(`etcd_cluster_version{cluster_version="%s"} 1`, ver), metricsURLScheme: cx.cfg.metricsURLScheme}); err != nil {
+		cx.t.Fatalf("failed get with curl (%v)", err)
+	}
 }
 
 func TestReleaseUpgradeWithRestart(t *testing.T) {
diff --git a/tests/e2e/metrics_test.go b/tests/e2e/metrics_test.go
index 24ca95e4d63..7a32f003147 100644
--- a/tests/e2e/metrics_test.go
+++ b/tests/e2e/metrics_test.go
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ package e2e
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	"go.etcd.io/etcd/version"
@@ -45,6 +46,13 @@ func metricsTest(cx ctlCtx) {
 	if err := cURLGet(cx.epc, cURLReq{endpoint: "/metrics", expected: fmt.Sprintf(`etcd_server_version{server_version="%s"} 1`, version.Version), metricsURLScheme: cx.cfg.metricsURLScheme}); err != nil {
 		cx.t.Fatalf("failed get with curl (%v)", err)
 	}
+	ver := version.Version
+	if strings.HasSuffix(ver, "+git") {
+		ver = strings.Replace(ver, "+git", "", 1)
+	}
+	if err := cURLGet(cx.epc, cURLReq{endpoint: "/metrics", expected: fmt.Sprintf(`etcd_cluster_version{cluster_version="%s"} 1`, ver), metricsURLScheme: cx.cfg.metricsURLScheme}); err != nil {
+		cx.t.Fatalf("failed get with curl (%v)", err)
+	}
 	if err := cURLGet(cx.epc, cURLReq{endpoint: "/health", expected: `{"health":"true"}`, metricsURLScheme: cx.cfg.metricsURLScheme}); err != nil {
 		cx.t.Fatalf("failed get with curl (%v)", err)
 	}