diff --git a/tuning/trainercontroller/controllermetrics/__init__.py b/tuning/trainercontroller/controllermetrics/__init__.py
index 1f9f76705..6a8165852 100644
--- a/tuning/trainercontroller/controllermetrics/__init__.py
+++ b/tuning/trainercontroller/controllermetrics/__init__.py
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 from .history_based_metrics import HistoryBasedMetric
 from .loss import Loss
 from .trainingstate import TrainingState
+from tuning.trainercontroller.controllermetrics.per_process_state import PerProcessState
 
 # List of metric handlers
 handlers = []
@@ -39,6 +40,7 @@ def register(cl: Type):
 
 # Register the default metric handlers in this package here
 register(TrainingState)
+register(PerProcessState)
 register(EvalMetrics)
 register(Loss)
 register(HistoryBasedMetric)
diff --git a/tuning/trainercontroller/controllermetrics/metrics.yaml b/tuning/trainercontroller/controllermetrics/metrics.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d3a8a32de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tuning/trainercontroller/controllermetrics/metrics.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+controller-metrics:
+  - name: loss
+    class: Loss
+  - name: state
+    class: TrainingState
+  - name: eval_metrics
+    class: EvalMetrics
+  - name: per_process_state
+    class: PerProcessState
diff --git a/tuning/trainercontroller/controllermetrics/per_process_state.py b/tuning/trainercontroller/controllermetrics/per_process_state.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..58a96de37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tuning/trainercontroller/controllermetrics/per_process_state.py
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+# Copyright The IBM Tuning Team
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# https://spdx.dev/learn/handling-license-info/
+
+# Standard
+from typing import Any
+
+# Third Party
+from transformers import TrainerState
+import torch
+
+# Local
+from tuning.trainercontroller.controllermetrics.metricshandler import MetricHandler
+
+
+class PerProcessState(MetricHandler):
+    """Implements the controller metric which exposes the per process state"""
+
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+        """Initializes the metric handler, by registering the event \
+            list and arguments with base handler.
+
+        Args:
+            kwargs: List of arguments (key, value)-pairs
+        """
+        super().__init__(
+            events=[
+                "on_init_end",
+                "on_step_end",
+                "on_epoch_begin",
+                "on_epoch_end",
+                "on_prediction_step",
+                "on_predict",
+                "on_log",
+                "on_train_end",
+                "on_train_begin",
+                "on_evaluate",
+                "on_save",
+            ],
+            **kwargs,
+        )
+
+    def validate(self) -> bool:
+        """Validate the training arguments (e.g logging_steps) are \
+            compatible with the computation of this metric.
+
+        Returns:
+            bool
+        """
+        return True
+
+    def compute(self, _: TrainerState = None, **kwargs) -> Any:
+        """Exposes the trainer state.
+
+        Args:
+            state: TrainerState object
+            kwargs: Remaining event arguments
+
+        Returns:
+            dict. Trainer state as a dictionary
+        """
+        if torch.distributed.is_available() and torch.distributed.is_initialized():
+            return {"rank": torch.distributed.get_rank()}
+        return {"rank": None}