diff --git a/bin/service/http_server.py b/bin/service/http_server.py
index 2dfcf90ba63..cd79230a62f 100644
--- a/bin/service/http_server.py
+++ b/bin/service/http_server.py
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ class ThreadedHTTPServer(ConnThreadingMixIn, SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher, HTTPServer)
 
         SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher.__init__(self, allow_none, encoding)
         HTTPServer.__init__(self, addr, requestHandler)
+        
+        self.numThreads = 0
 
         # [Bug #1222790] If possible, set close-on-exec flag; if a
         # method spawns a subprocess, the subprocess shouldn't have
@@ -87,6 +89,12 @@ class ThreadedHTTPServer(ConnThreadingMixIn, SimpleXMLRPCDispatcher, HTTPServer)
         
         logging.getLogger("init").exception("Server error in request from %s:" % (client_address,))
 
+    def _mark_start(self, thread):
+        self.numThreads += 1
+
+    def _mark_end(self, thread):
+        self.numThreads -= 1
+
 class HttpLogHandler:
     """ helper class for uniform log handling
     Please define self._logger at each class that is derived from this
@@ -158,6 +166,12 @@ class BaseHttpDaemon(threading.Thread, netsvc.Server):
                     raise
         return True
 
+    def stats(self):
+        res = "%sd: " % self._RealProto + ((self.running and "running") or  "stopped")
+        if self.server:
+	    res += ", %d threads" % (self.server.numThreads,)
+        return res
+
     def append_svc(self, service):
         if not isinstance(service, HTTPDir):
             raise Exception("Wrong class for http service")
diff --git a/bin/service/websrv_lib.py b/bin/service/websrv_lib.py
index e091ceb3a44..07c98c98b15 100644
--- a/bin/service/websrv_lib.py
+++ b/bin/service/websrv_lib.py
@@ -405,6 +405,14 @@ class ConnThreadingMixIn:
         if self.daemon_threads:
             t.setDaemon (1)
         t.start()
+    
+    def _mark_start(self, thread):
+        """ Mark the start of a request thread """
+        pass
+
+    def _mark_end(self, thread):
+        """ Mark the end of a request thread """
+        pass
 
     def _handle_request2(self):
         """Handle one request, without blocking.
@@ -414,8 +422,10 @@ class ConnThreadingMixIn:
         no risk of blocking in get_request().
         """
         try:
+            self._mark_start(threading.currentThread())
             request, client_address = self.get_request()
         except socket.error:
+            self._mark_end(threading.currentThread())
             return
         if self.verify_request(request, client_address):
             try:
@@ -423,5 +433,6 @@ class ConnThreadingMixIn:
             except Exception:
                 self.handle_error(request, client_address)
                 self.close_request(request)
+        self._mark_end(threading.currentThread())
 
 #eof