diff --git a/docs/source/user-guide/tuning.md b/docs/source/user-guide/tuning.md
index b1838ca801..e0d7c1bc93 100644
--- a/docs/source/user-guide/tuning.md
+++ b/docs/source/user-guide/tuning.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Comet provides some tuning options to help you get the best performance from you
 
 ## Memory Tuning
 
-Comet shares an off-heap memory pool between Spark and Comet. This requires setting `spark.memory.offHeap.enabled=true`. 
+Comet shares an off-heap memory pool between Spark and Comet. This requires setting `spark.memory.offHeap.enabled=true`.
 If this setting is not enabled, Comet will not accelerate queries and will fall back to Spark.
 
 Each executor will have a single memory pool which will be shared by all native plans being executed within that
@@ -105,8 +105,16 @@ then any shuffle operations that cannot be supported in this mode will fall back
 
 ## Metrics
 
-Comet metrics are not directly comparable to Spark metrics in some cases.
+Some Comet metrics are not directly comparable to Spark metrics in some cases:
 
-`CometScanExec` uses nanoseconds for total scan time. Spark also measures scan time in nanoseconds but converts to
-milliseconds _per batch_ which can result in a large loss of precision. In one case we saw total scan time
-of 41 seconds reported as 23 seconds for example.
+- `CometScanExec` uses nanoseconds for total scan time. Spark also measures scan time in nanoseconds but converts to
+  milliseconds _per batch_ which can result in a large loss of precision, making it difficult to compare scan times
+  between Spark and Comet.
+
+Comet also adds some custom metrics:
+
+### ShuffleWriterExec
+
+| Metric           | Description                                                                                                                                                                       |
+| ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| `jvm_fetch_time` | Measure the time it takes for `ShuffleWriterExec` to fetch batches from the JVM. Note that this does not include the execution time of the query that produced the input batches. |
diff --git a/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/shuffle_writer.rs b/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/shuffle_writer.rs
index 7587ff06dc..c79eeeb4a0 100644
--- a/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/shuffle_writer.rs
+++ b/native/core/src/execution/datafusion/shuffle_writer.rs
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ impl ExecutionPlan for ShuffleWriterExec {
     ) -> Result<SendableRecordBatchStream> {
         let input = self.input.execute(partition, Arc::clone(&context))?;
         let metrics = ShuffleRepartitionerMetrics::new(&self.metrics, 0);
+        let jvm_fetch_time = MetricBuilder::new(&self.metrics).subset_time("jvm_fetch_time", 0);
 
         Ok(Box::pin(RecordBatchStreamAdapter::new(
             self.schema(),
@@ -151,6 +152,7 @@ impl ExecutionPlan for ShuffleWriterExec {
                     self.partitioning.clone(),
                     metrics,
                     context,
+                    jvm_fetch_time,
                 )
                 .map_err(|e| ArrowError::ExternalError(Box::new(e))),
             )
@@ -1083,6 +1085,7 @@ impl Debug for ShuffleRepartitioner {
     }
 }
 
+#[allow(clippy::too_many_arguments)]
 async fn external_shuffle(
     mut input: SendableRecordBatchStream,
     partition_id: usize,
@@ -1091,6 +1094,7 @@ async fn external_shuffle(
     partitioning: Partitioning,
     metrics: ShuffleRepartitionerMetrics,
     context: Arc<TaskContext>,
+    jvm_fetch_time: Time,
 ) -> Result<SendableRecordBatchStream> {
     let schema = input.schema();
     let mut repartitioner = ShuffleRepartitioner::new(
@@ -1104,13 +1108,23 @@ async fn external_shuffle(
         context.session_config().batch_size(),
     );
 
-    while let Some(batch) = input.next().await {
-        // Block on the repartitioner to insert the batch and shuffle the rows
-        // into the corresponding partition buffer.
-        // Otherwise, pull the next batch from the input stream might overwrite the
-        // current batch in the repartitioner.
-        block_on(repartitioner.insert_batch(batch?))?;
+    loop {
+        let mut timer = jvm_fetch_time.timer();
+        let b = input.next().await;
+        timer.stop();
+
+        match b {
+            Some(batch_result) => {
+                // Block on the repartitioner to insert the batch and shuffle the rows
+                // into the corresponding partition buffer.
+                // Otherwise, pull the next batch from the input stream might overwrite the
+                // current batch in the repartitioner.
+                block_on(repartitioner.insert_batch(batch_result?))?;
+            }
+            _ => break,
+        }
     }
+
     repartitioner.shuffle_write().await
 }
 
diff --git a/native/core/src/execution/operators/scan.rs b/native/core/src/execution/operators/scan.rs
index a9bd954e99..2cb8a84d94 100644
--- a/native/core/src/execution/operators/scan.rs
+++ b/native/core/src/execution/operators/scan.rs
@@ -52,7 +52,9 @@ use std::{
 };
 
 /// ScanExec reads batches of data from Spark via JNI. The source of the scan could be a file
-/// scan or the result of reading a broadcast or shuffle exchange.
+/// scan or the result of reading a broadcast or shuffle exchange. ScanExec isn't invoked
+/// until the data is already available in the JVM. When CometExecIterator invokes
+/// Native.executePlan, it passes in the memory addresses of the input batches.
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
 pub struct ScanExec {
     /// The ID of the execution context that owns this subquery. We use this ID to retrieve the JVM
@@ -73,6 +75,7 @@ pub struct ScanExec {
     cache: PlanProperties,
     /// Metrics collector
     metrics: ExecutionPlanMetricsSet,
+    /// Baseline metrics
     baseline_metrics: BaselineMetrics,
 }
 
diff --git a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/comet/execution/shuffle/CometShuffleExchangeExec.scala b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/comet/execution/shuffle/CometShuffleExchangeExec.scala
index 6430a7899f..4c3f994f9e 100644
--- a/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/comet/execution/shuffle/CometShuffleExchangeExec.scala
+++ b/spark/src/main/scala/org/apache/spark/sql/comet/execution/shuffle/CometShuffleExchangeExec.scala
@@ -77,6 +77,9 @@ case class CometShuffleExchangeExec(
     SQLShuffleReadMetricsReporter.createShuffleReadMetrics(sparkContext)
   override lazy val metrics: Map[String, SQLMetric] = Map(
     "dataSize" -> SQLMetrics.createSizeMetric(sparkContext, "data size"),
+    "jvm_fetch_time" -> SQLMetrics.createNanoTimingMetric(
+      sparkContext,
+      "time fetching batches from JVM"),
     "numPartitions" -> SQLMetrics.createMetric(
       sparkContext,
       "number of partitions")) ++ readMetrics ++ writeMetrics
@@ -480,7 +483,14 @@ class CometShuffleWriteProcessor(
       "output_rows" -> metrics(SQLShuffleWriteMetricsReporter.SHUFFLE_RECORDS_WRITTEN),
       "data_size" -> metrics("dataSize"),
       "elapsed_compute" -> metrics(SQLShuffleWriteMetricsReporter.SHUFFLE_WRITE_TIME))
-    val nativeMetrics = CometMetricNode(nativeSQLMetrics)
+
+    val nativeMetrics = if (metrics.contains("jvm_fetch_time")) {
+      CometMetricNode(
+        nativeSQLMetrics ++ Map("jvm_fetch_time" ->
+          metrics("jvm_fetch_time")))
+    } else {
+      CometMetricNode(nativeSQLMetrics)
+    }
 
     // Getting rid of the fake partitionId
     val newInputs = inputs.asInstanceOf[Iterator[_ <: Product2[Any, Any]]].map(_._2)