diff --git a/mettle/api/api.go b/mettle/api/api.go
index 0029bf5c..7edb0895 100644
--- a/mettle/api/api.go
+++ b/mettle/api/api.go
@@ -49,10 +49,6 @@ var totalRequests = prometheus.NewCounter(prometheus.CounterOpts{
 	Namespace: "mettle",
 	Name:      "requests_total",
 })
-var currentRequests = prometheus.NewGauge(prometheus.GaugeOpts{
-	Namespace: "mettle",
-	Name:      "requests_current",
-})
 
 var totalFailedActions = prometheus.NewCounter(prometheus.CounterOpts{
 	Namespace: "mettle",
@@ -105,7 +101,6 @@ var deleteJobsDurations = prometheus.NewHistogram(prometheus.HistogramOpts{
 
 var metrics = []prometheus.Collector{
 	totalRequests,
-	currentRequests,
 	totalFailedActions,
 	totalSuccessfulActions,
 	timeToComplete,
@@ -117,6 +112,8 @@ var metrics = []prometheus.Collector{
 	deleteJobsDurations,
 }
 
+var register sync.Once
+
 func init() {
 	for _, metric := range metrics {
 		prometheus.MustRegister(metric)
@@ -171,6 +168,21 @@ func serve(opts grpcutil.Opts, name string, queueOpts PubSubOpts, apiURL string,
 		numPollers:       queueOpts.NumPollers,
 		deleteJobsTicker: time.NewTicker(10 * time.Minute),
 	}
+
+	// _Technically_ this won't happen more than once in normal running, as we'd only run 1 server, but it does happen in tests.
+	register.Do(func() {
+		prometheus.MustRegister(prometheus.NewGaugeFunc(prometheus.GaugeOpts{
+			Namespace: "mettle",
+			Name:      "requests_current",
+		},
+			func() float64 {
+				srv.mutex.Lock()
+				defer srv.mutex.Unlock()
+				return float64(len(srv.jobs))
+			},
+		))
+	})
+
 	log.Notice("Allowed platform values:")
 	for k, v := range allowedPlatform {
 		log.Notice("    %s: %s", k, strings.Join(v, ", "))
@@ -180,7 +192,6 @@ func serve(opts grpcutil.Opts, name string, queueOpts PubSubOpts, apiURL string,
 		log.Warningf("Failed to get inflight executions: %s", err)
 	} else if len(jobs) > 0 {
 		srv.jobs = jobs
-		currentRequests.Set(float64(len(srv.jobs)))
 		log.Notice("Updated server with %d inflight executions", len(srv.jobs))
 	}
 	go srv.Receive()
@@ -407,7 +418,6 @@ func (s *server) eventStream(digest *pb.Digest, create bool) (<-chan *longrunnin
 		s.jobs[digest.Hash] = j
 		log.Debug("Created job for %s", digest.Hash)
 		totalRequests.Inc()
-		currentRequests.Inc()
 		created = true
 	} else if create && time.Since(j.LastUpdate) >= resumptionTime {
 		// In this path we think the job is too old to be relevant; we don't actually create
@@ -525,7 +535,6 @@ func (s *server) process(msg *pubsub.Message) {
 			LastUpdate: time.Now(),
 		}
 		s.jobs[key] = j
-		currentRequests.Inc()
 	}
 	if metadata.Stage != pb.ExecutionStage_QUEUED || !j.SentFirst {
 		// Only send QUEUED messages if they're the first one. This prevents us from
@@ -573,7 +582,6 @@ func (s *server) periodicallyDeleteJobs() {
 		for digest, job := range s.jobs {
 			if shouldDeleteJob(job) {
 				delete(s.jobs, digest)
-				currentRequests.Dec()
 			}
 		}
 		s.mutex.Unlock()