diff --git a/vllm_mlx/engine/batched.py b/vllm_mlx/engine/batched.py
index 3ac52b4b0..4d1059243 100644
--- a/vllm_mlx/engine/batched.py
+++ b/vllm_mlx/engine/batched.py
@@ -768,14 +768,27 @@ def get_stats(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
         if self._mllm_scheduler:
             mllm_stats = self._mllm_scheduler.get_stats()
             stats["mllm_scheduler"] = mllm_stats
-            # Promote Metal memory stats to top-level for /v1/status
+            # Promote stats to top-level for /v1/status and monitoring
             for key in (
+                "running",
+                "num_running",
+                "num_waiting",
+                "num_requests_processed",
+                "total_prompt_tokens",
+                "total_completion_tokens",
                 "metal_active_memory_gb",
                 "metal_peak_memory_gb",
                 "metal_cache_memory_gb",
+                "memory_aware_cache",
+                "paged_cache",
+                "prefix_cache",
+                "requests",
             ):
                 if key in mllm_stats:
                     stats[key] = mllm_stats[key]
+            # MLLM engine is always "running" once loaded
+            if "running" not in stats:
+                stats["running"] = self._loaded
         elif self._engine:
             stats.update(self._engine.get_stats())
 
diff --git a/vllm_mlx/mllm_scheduler.py b/vllm_mlx/mllm_scheduler.py
index 555b230f2..027fed11e 100644
--- a/vllm_mlx/mllm_scheduler.py
+++ b/vllm_mlx/mllm_scheduler.py
@@ -94,6 +94,9 @@ class MLLMRequest:
     num_prompt_tokens: int = 0
     num_output_tokens: int = 0
 
+    # Timing
+    first_token_time: Optional[float] = None
+
 
 @dataclass
 class MLLMSchedulerOutput:
@@ -457,6 +460,9 @@ def _process_batch_responses(
             request.output_tokens.append(response.token)
             request.num_output_tokens = len(request.output_tokens)
 
+            if request.first_token_time is None and request.num_output_tokens > 0:
+                request.first_token_time = time.time()
+
             # Decode the new token using streaming detokenizer (UTF-8 safe).
             # Skip stop tokens — they are not content.
             if response.finish_reason == "stop":
@@ -778,6 +784,70 @@ async def generate(
 
     # ========== Stats and utilities ==========
 
+    def get_running_requests_info(self) -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
+        """Per-request details for status endpoint."""
+        now = time.time()
+        result = []
+
+        # Waiting requests
+        for req in self.waiting:
+            result.append(
+                {
+                    "request_id": req.request_id,
+                    "status": "waiting",
+                    "phase": "queued",
+                    "elapsed_s": round(now - req.arrival_time, 2),
+                    "prompt_tokens": req.num_prompt_tokens,
+                    "completion_tokens": 0,
+                    "max_tokens": req.sampling_params.max_tokens,
+                    "progress": 0.0,
+                    "tokens_per_second": None,
+                    "ttft_s": None,
+                    "cache_hit_type": None,
+                    "cached_tokens": 0,
+                }
+            )
+
+        # Running requests
+        for req in self.running.values():
+            n_out = req.num_output_tokens
+            elapsed = now - req.arrival_time
+
+            if n_out == 0:
+                phase = "prefill"
+            else:
+                phase = "generation"
+
+            tok_s = None
+            ttft = None
+            if req.first_token_time is not None:
+                ttft = round(req.first_token_time - req.arrival_time, 3)
+                gen_elapsed = now - req.first_token_time
+                if gen_elapsed > 0 and n_out > 0:
+                    tok_s = round(n_out / gen_elapsed, 1)
+
+            max_tokens = req.sampling_params.max_tokens
+            progress = round(n_out / max_tokens, 3) if max_tokens > 0 else 0.0
+
+            result.append(
+                {
+                    "request_id": req.request_id,
+                    "status": "running",
+                    "phase": phase,
+                    "elapsed_s": round(elapsed, 2),
+                    "prompt_tokens": req.num_prompt_tokens,
+                    "completion_tokens": n_out,
+                    "max_tokens": max_tokens,
+                    "progress": min(progress, 1.0),
+                    "tokens_per_second": tok_s,
+                    "ttft_s": ttft,
+                    "cache_hit_type": None,
+                    "cached_tokens": 0,
+                }
+            )
+
+        return result
+
     def get_stats(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
         """Get scheduler statistics."""
         stats = {
@@ -787,6 +857,7 @@ def get_stats(self) -> Dict[str, Any]:
             "num_requests_processed": self.num_requests_processed,
             "total_prompt_tokens": self.total_prompt_tokens,
             "total_completion_tokens": self.total_completion_tokens,
+            "requests": self.get_running_requests_info(),
         }
 
         if self.batch_generator is not None: