diff --git a/addons/web/tests/__init__.py b/addons/web/tests/__init__.py
index b0a481cdf2b..157ef045f1b 100644
--- a/addons/web/tests/__init__.py
+++ b/addons/web/tests/__init__.py
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@ from . import test_load_menus
 from . import test_profiler
 from . import test_session_info
 from . import test_read_progress_bar
+from . import test_assets
diff --git a/addons/web/tests/test_assets.py b/addons/web/tests/test_assets.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3a564b84b11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/addons/web/tests/test_assets.py
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+# Part of Odoo. See LICENSE file for full copyright and licensing details.
+
+import logging
+import time
+
+import odoo
+import odoo.tests
+
+from odoo.modules.module import read_manifest
+from odoo.tools import mute_logger
+
+_logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+
+class TestAssetsGenerateTimeCommon(odoo.tests.TransactionCase):
+
+    def generate_bundles(self):
+        bundles = set()
+        installed_module_names = self.env['ir.module.module'].search([('state', '=', 'installed')]).mapped('name')
+        for addon_path in odoo.addons.__path__:
+            for addon in installed_module_names:
+                manifest = read_manifest(addon_path, addon) or {}
+                assets = manifest.get('assets')
+                if assets:
+                    bundles |= set(assets.keys())
+
+        for bundle in bundles:
+            start_t = time.time()
+            with mute_logger('odoo.addons.base.models.assetsbundle'):
+                try:
+                    self.env['ir.qweb']._generate_asset_nodes(bundle, options={})
+                    yield (bundle, time.time() - start_t)
+                except ValueError:
+                    _logger.info('Error detected while generating bundle %r', bundle)
+
+
+@odoo.tests.tagged('post_install', '-at_install')
+class TestLogsAssetsGenerateTime(TestAssetsGenerateTimeCommon):
+
+    def test_logs_assets_generate_time(self):
+        """
+        The purpose of this test is to monitor the time of assets bundle generation.
+        This is not meant to test the generation failure, hence the try/except and the mute logger.
+        For example, 'web.assets_qweb' is contains only static xml.
+        """
+        for bundle, duration in self.generate_bundles():
+            _logger.info('Bundle %r generated in %.2fs', bundle, duration)
+
+
+@odoo.tests.tagged('post_install', '-at_install', '-standard', 'bundle_generation')
+class TestAssetsGenerateTime(TestAssetsGenerateTimeCommon):
+    """
+    This test is meant to be run nightly to ensure bundle generation does not exceed
+    a low threshold
+    """
+
+    def test_assets_generate_time(self):
+        for bundle, duration in self.generate_bundles():
+            threshold = 2
+            self.assertLess(duration, threshold, "Bundle %r took more than %s sec" % (bundle, threshold))