diff --git a/client/service/src/task_manager/mod.rs b/client/service/src/task_manager/mod.rs
index d792122576444..f2987e684d9dc 100644
--- a/client/service/src/task_manager/mod.rs
+++ b/client/service/src/task_manager/mod.rs
@@ -129,12 +129,20 @@ impl SpawnTaskHandle {
 			GroupName::Default => DEFAULT_GROUP_NAME,
 		};
 
+		let task_type_label = match task_type {
+			TaskType::Blocking => "blocking",
+			TaskType::Async => "async",
+		};
+
 		// Note that we increase the started counter here and not within the future. This way,
 		// we could properly visualize on Prometheus situations where the spawning doesn't work.
 		if let Some(metrics) = &self.metrics {
-			metrics.tasks_spawned.with_label_values(&[name, group]).inc();
+			metrics.tasks_spawned.with_label_values(&[name, group, task_type_label]).inc();
 			// We do a dummy increase in order for the task to show up in metrics.
-			metrics.tasks_ended.with_label_values(&[name, "finished", group]).inc_by(0);
+			metrics
+				.tasks_ended
+				.with_label_values(&[name, "finished", group, task_type_label])
+				.inc_by(0);
 		}
 
 		let future = async move {
@@ -145,8 +153,10 @@ impl SpawnTaskHandle {
 			if let Some(metrics) = metrics {
 				// Add some wrappers around `task`.
 				let task = {
-					let poll_duration = metrics.poll_duration.with_label_values(&[name, group]);
-					let poll_start = metrics.poll_start.with_label_values(&[name, group]);
+					let poll_duration =
+						metrics.poll_duration.with_label_values(&[name, group, task_type_label]);
+					let poll_start =
+						metrics.poll_start.with_label_values(&[name, group, task_type_label]);
 					let inner =
 						prometheus_future::with_poll_durations(poll_duration, poll_start, task);
 					// The logic of `AssertUnwindSafe` here is ok considering that we throw
@@ -157,15 +167,24 @@ impl SpawnTaskHandle {
 
 				match select(on_exit, task).await {
 					Either::Right((Err(payload), _)) => {
-						metrics.tasks_ended.with_label_values(&[name, "panic", group]).inc();
+						metrics
+							.tasks_ended
+							.with_label_values(&[name, "panic", group, task_type_label])
+							.inc();
 						panic::resume_unwind(payload)
 					},
 					Either::Right((Ok(()), _)) => {
-						metrics.tasks_ended.with_label_values(&[name, "finished", group]).inc();
+						metrics
+							.tasks_ended
+							.with_label_values(&[name, "finished", group, task_type_label])
+							.inc();
 					},
 					Either::Left(((), _)) => {
 						// The `on_exit` has triggered.
-						metrics.tasks_ended.with_label_values(&[name, "interrupted", group]).inc();
+						metrics
+							.tasks_ended
+							.with_label_values(&[name, "interrupted", group, task_type_label])
+							.inc();
 					},
 				}
 			} else {
@@ -433,28 +452,28 @@ impl Metrics {
 					buckets: exponential_buckets(0.001, 4.0, 9)
 						.expect("function parameters are constant and always valid; qed"),
 				},
-				&["task_name", "task_group"]
+				&["task_name", "task_group", "kind"]
 			)?, registry)?,
 			poll_start: register(CounterVec::new(
 				Opts::new(
 					"substrate_tasks_polling_started_total",
 					"Total number of times we started invoking Future::poll"
 				),
-				&["task_name", "task_group"]
+				&["task_name", "task_group", "kind"]
 			)?, registry)?,
 			tasks_spawned: register(CounterVec::new(
 				Opts::new(
 					"substrate_tasks_spawned_total",
 					"Total number of tasks that have been spawned on the Service"
 				),
-				&["task_name", "task_group"]
+				&["task_name", "task_group", "kind"]
 			)?, registry)?,
 			tasks_ended: register(CounterVec::new(
 				Opts::new(
 					"substrate_tasks_ended_total",
 					"Total number of tasks for which Future::poll has returned Ready(()) or panicked"
 				),
-				&["task_name", "reason", "task_group"]
+				&["task_name", "reason", "task_group", "kind"]
 			)?, registry)?,
 		})
 	}