diff --git a/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/dashboard_telemetry.ts b/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/dashboard_telemetry.ts
index 305cdfafc39c4..70009a422525c 100644
--- a/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/dashboard_telemetry.ts
+++ b/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/dashboard_telemetry.ts
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ export interface DashboardCollectorData {
     };
   };
   controls: ControlGroupTelemetry;
+  sections: {
+    total: number;
+  };
 }
 
 export const getEmptyDashboardData = (): DashboardCollectorData => ({
@@ -50,6 +53,9 @@ export const getEmptyDashboardData = (): DashboardCollectorData => ({
     by_type: {},
   },
   controls: initializeControlGroupTelemetry({}),
+  sections: {
+    total: 0,
+  },
 });
 
 export const getEmptyPanelTypeData = () => ({
@@ -92,6 +98,14 @@ export const collectPanelsByType = (
   }
 };
 
+export const collectDashboardSections = (
+  attributes: DashboardSavedObjectAttributes,
+  collectorData: DashboardCollectorData
+) => {
+  collectorData.sections.total += attributes.sections?.length ?? 0;
+  return collectorData;
+};
+
 export const controlsCollectorFactory =
   (embeddableService: EmbeddablePersistableStateService) =>
   (attributes: DashboardSavedObjectAttributes, collectorData: DashboardCollectorData) => {
diff --git a/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/dashboard_telemetry_collection_task.ts b/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/dashboard_telemetry_collection_task.ts
index 3da2a9d731f72..a8febbd9be4cb 100644
--- a/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/dashboard_telemetry_collection_task.ts
+++ b/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/dashboard_telemetry_collection_task.ts
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import {
   controlsCollectorFactory,
   collectPanelsByType,
   getEmptyDashboardData,
+  collectDashboardSections,
 } from './dashboard_telemetry';
 import type {
   DashboardSavedObjectAttributes,
@@ -102,6 +103,7 @@ export function dashboardTaskRunner(logger: Logger, core: CoreSetup, embeddable:
             // });
 
             dashboardData = controlsCollector(dashboard.attributes, dashboardData);
+            dashboardData = collectDashboardSections(dashboard.attributes, dashboardData);
 
             try {
               const panels = JSON.parse(
diff --git a/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/register_collector.ts b/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/register_collector.ts
index 7035ee0bea644..97a9ff68f826c 100644
--- a/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/register_collector.ts
+++ b/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/register_collector.ts
@@ -111,6 +111,15 @@ export function registerDashboardUsageCollector(
           },
         },
       },
+      sections: {
+        total: {
+          type: 'long',
+          _meta: {
+            description:
+              'Collection of telemetry metrics that count the number of collapsible sections on all dashboards',
+          },
+        },
+      },
     },
   });
 
diff --git a/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/task_state.ts b/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/task_state.ts
index fa8df453c4424..b631e03fb213f 100644
--- a/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/task_state.ts
+++ b/src/platform/plugins/shared/dashboard/server/usage/task_state.ts
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ export const stateSchemaByVersion = {
             })
           ),
         }),
+        sections: schema.object({ total: schema.number() }),
       }),
     }),
   },
@@ -92,5 +93,8 @@ export const emptyState: LatestTaskStateSchema = {
       label_position: {},
       by_type: {},
     },
+    sections: {
+      total: 0,
+    },
   },
 };
diff --git a/src/platform/plugins/shared/telemetry/schema/oss_platform.json b/src/platform/plugins/shared/telemetry/schema/oss_platform.json
index 4981e58e2ac7d..a63117e9017f3 100644
--- a/src/platform/plugins/shared/telemetry/schema/oss_platform.json
+++ b/src/platform/plugins/shared/telemetry/schema/oss_platform.json
@@ -9575,6 +9575,16 @@
               }
             }
           }
+        },
+        "sections": {
+          "properties": {
+            "total": {
+              "type": "long",
+              "_meta": {
+                "description": "Collection of telemetry metrics that count the number of collapsible sections on all dashboards"
+              }
+            }
+          }
         }
       }
     },