diff --git a/test/e2e/e2e_suite_test.go b/test/e2e/e2e_suite_test.go
index 25c65afe26..f4f5c9247f 100644
--- a/test/e2e/e2e_suite_test.go
+++ b/test/e2e/e2e_suite_test.go
@@ -54,7 +54,8 @@ const (
 )
 
 var (
-	port string = env.GetEnvString("E2E_PORT", "30080", ginkgo.GinkgoLogr)
+	port        string = env.GetEnvString("E2E_PORT", "30080", ginkgo.GinkgoLogr)
+	metricsPort string = env.GetEnvString("E2E_METRICS_PORT", "32090", ginkgo.GinkgoLogr)
 
 	testConfig *testutils.TestConfig
 
@@ -80,7 +81,8 @@ var (
 	infPoolObjects        []string
 	createdNameSpace      bool
 
-	portForwardSession *gexec.Session
+	portForwardSession    *gexec.Session
+	eppPortForwardSession *gexec.Session
 )
 
 func TestEndToEnd(t *testing.T) {
@@ -115,6 +117,10 @@ var _ = ginkgo.AfterSuite(func() {
 			portForwardSession.Terminate()
 		}
 
+		if eppPortForwardSession != nil {
+			eppPortForwardSession.Terminate()
+		}
+
 		// cleanup created objects
 		ginkgo.By("Deleting created Kubernetes objects")
 		testutils.DeleteObjects(testConfig, infPoolObjects)
@@ -149,6 +155,7 @@ func setupK8sCluster() {
 			gomega.Expect(err).ShouldNot(gomega.HaveOccurred())
 		}()
 		clusterConfig := strings.ReplaceAll(kindClusterConfig, "${PORT}", port)
+		clusterConfig = strings.ReplaceAll(clusterConfig, "${METRICS_PORT}", metricsPort)
 		_, err := io.WriteString(stdin, clusterConfig)
 		gomega.Expect(err).ShouldNot(gomega.HaveOccurred())
 	}()
@@ -284,6 +291,22 @@ func createInferencePool(numTargetPorts int, toDelete bool) []string {
 	return testutils.CreateObjsFromYaml(testConfig, infPoolYaml)
 }
 
+func startEPPMetricsPortForward() {
+	pods, err := testConfig.KubeCli.CoreV1().Pods(nsName).List(testConfig.Context, metav1.ListOptions{
+		LabelSelector: "app=e2e-epp",
+	})
+	gomega.Expect(err).NotTo(gomega.HaveOccurred())
+	gomega.Expect(pods.Items).NotTo(gomega.BeEmpty())
+
+	eppPodName := pods.Items[0].Name
+	command := exec.Command("kubectl", "port-forward", "pod/"+eppPodName, metricsPort+":9090",
+		"--context="+k8sContext, "--namespace="+nsName)
+	eppPortForwardSession, err = gexec.Start(command, ginkgo.GinkgoWriter, ginkgo.GinkgoWriter)
+	gomega.Expect(err).ShouldNot(gomega.HaveOccurred())
+	// Give it a moment to establish
+	time.Sleep(3 * time.Second)
+}
+
 const kindClusterConfig = `
 kind: Cluster
 apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
@@ -295,4 +318,7 @@ nodes:
   - containerPort: 30081
     hostPort: 30081
     protocol: TCP
+  - containerPort: 32090
+    hostPort: ${METRICS_PORT}
+    protocol: TCP
 `
diff --git a/test/e2e/e2e_test.go b/test/e2e/e2e_test.go
index 4fcf3ccc10..d23b20a58d 100644
--- a/test/e2e/e2e_test.go
+++ b/test/e2e/e2e_test.go
@@ -2,8 +2,10 @@ package e2e
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"io"
 	"net/http"
 	"strconv"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/onsi/ginkgo/v2"
@@ -76,6 +78,13 @@ var _ = ginkgo.Describe("Run end to end tests", ginkgo.Ordered, func() {
 
 			epp := createEndPointPicker(pdConfig)
 
+			metricsURL := fmt.Sprintf("http://localhost:%s/metrics", metricsPort)
+
+			if k8sContext != "" {
+				// Use port-forward to access the EPP pod's metrics endpoint.
+				startEPPMetricsPortForward()
+			}
+
 			prefillPods, decodePods := getModelServerPods(podSelector, prefillSelector, decodeSelector)
 			gomega.Expect(prefillPods).Should(gomega.HaveLen(prefillReplicas))
 			gomega.Expect(decodePods).Should(gomega.HaveLen(decodeReplicas))
@@ -110,6 +119,16 @@ var _ = ginkgo.Describe("Run end to end tests", ginkgo.Ordered, func() {
 			gomega.Expect(podHdr).Should(gomega.BeElementOf(decodePods))
 			gomega.Expect(podHdr).Should(gomega.Equal(podHdrChat))
 
+			// Metrics Validation
+			labelFilter := fmt.Sprintf(`decision_type="prefill-decode",model_name="%s"`, modelName)
+			prefillDecodeCount := getCounterMetric(metricsURL, "llm_d_inference_scheduler_pd_decision_total", labelFilter)
+
+			labelFilter2 := fmt.Sprintf(`decision_type="decode-only",model_name="%s"`, modelName)
+			decodeOnlyCount := getCounterMetric(metricsURL, "llm_d_inference_scheduler_pd_decision_total", labelFilter2)
+
+			gomega.Expect(prefillDecodeCount).Should(gomega.Equal(6))
+			gomega.Expect(decodeOnlyCount).Should(gomega.Equal(0))
+
 			testutils.DeleteObjects(testConfig, epp)
 			testutils.DeleteObjects(testConfig, modelServers)
 		})
@@ -383,6 +402,33 @@ func runChatCompletion(prompt string) (string, string, string) {
 	return namespaceHeader, podHeader, podPort
 }
 
+// getCounterMetric fetches the current value of a Prometheus counter metric from the given metrics URL.
+func getCounterMetric(metricsURL, metricName, labelMatch string) int {
+	resp, err := http.Get(metricsURL)
+	gomega.Expect(err).ShouldNot(gomega.HaveOccurred())
+	defer func() {
+		err = resp.Body.Close()
+		gomega.Expect(err).ToNot(gomega.HaveOccurred())
+	}()
+	gomega.Expect(resp.StatusCode).Should(gomega.Equal(http.StatusOK))
+
+	body, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	gomega.Expect(err).ShouldNot(gomega.HaveOccurred())
+
+	metricsText := string(body)
+	for _, line := range strings.Split(metricsText, "\n") {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(line, metricName) && strings.Contains(line, labelMatch) {
+			fields := strings.Fields(line)
+			if len(fields) >= 2 {
+				valFloat, err := strconv.ParseFloat(fields[len(fields)-1], 64)
+				gomega.Expect(err).ShouldNot(gomega.HaveOccurred())
+				return int(valFloat)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
 // Simple EPP configuration for running without P/D
 const simpleConfig = `apiVersion: inference.networking.x-k8s.io/v1alpha1
 kind: EndpointPickerConfig
diff --git a/test/e2e/yaml/deployments.yaml b/test/e2e/yaml/deployments.yaml
index 4d844e32c4..09cacdc176 100644
--- a/test/e2e/yaml/deployments.yaml
+++ b/test/e2e/yaml/deployments.yaml
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ spec:
         - "9003"
         - --config-file
         - "/etc/epp/epp-config.yaml"
+        - --metrics-endpoint-auth=false
         env:
         - name: PYTHONHASHSEED
           value: "42"
diff --git a/test/e2e/yaml/services.yaml b/test/e2e/yaml/services.yaml
index 76a54e8e77..1e4dbd5d56 100644
--- a/test/e2e/yaml/services.yaml
+++ b/test/e2e/yaml/services.yaml
@@ -33,3 +33,18 @@ spec:
     nodePort: 30081
     appProtocol: http2
   type: NodePort
+---
+apiVersion: v1
+kind: Service
+metadata:
+  name: e2e-epp-metrics
+spec:
+  selector:
+    app: e2e-epp
+  ports:
+    - name: metrics
+      protocol: TCP
+      port: 9090
+      targetPort: 9090
+      nodePort: 32090
+  type: NodePort