diff --git a/drm/1.1/IDrmPlugin.hal b/drm/1.1/IDrmPlugin.hal
index f14b983ef8..c32d2b52c2 100644
--- a/drm/1.1/IDrmPlugin.hal
+++ b/drm/1.1/IDrmPlugin.hal
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ import @1.0::IDrmPluginListener;
 import @1.0::KeyedVector;
 import @1.0::KeyType;
 import @1.0::Status;
+import @1.1::DrmMetricGroup;
 import @1.1::HdcpLevel;
 import @1.1::KeyRequestType;
 import @1.1::SecurityLevel;
@@ -162,4 +163,17 @@ interface IDrmPlugin extends @1.0::IDrmPlugin {
      */
     setSecurityLevel(vec<uint8_t> sessionId, SecurityLevel level)
             generates(Status status);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the plugin-specific metrics. Multiple metric groups may be
+     * returned in one call to getMetrics(). The scope and definition of the
+     * metrics is defined by the plugin.
+     *
+     * @return status the status of the call. The status must be OK or
+     *         ERROR_DRM_INVALID_STATE if the metrics are not available to be
+     *         returned.
+     * @return metric_groups the collection of metric groups provided by the
+     *         plugin.
+     */
+    getMetrics() generates (Status status, vec<DrmMetricGroup> metric_groups);
 };
diff --git a/drm/1.1/types.hal b/drm/1.1/types.hal
index a132dccfeb..94a6e667b4 100644
--- a/drm/1.1/types.hal
+++ b/drm/1.1/types.hal
@@ -18,6 +18,103 @@ package android.hardware.drm@1.1;
 
 import @1.0::KeyRequestType;
 
+/**
+ * This message contains plugin-specific metrics made available to the client.
+ * The message is used for making vendor-specific metrics available to an
+ * application. The framework is not consuming any of the information.
+ *
+ * Metrics are grouped in instances of DrmMetricGroup. Each group contains
+ * multiple instances of Metric.
+ *
+ * Example:
+ *
+ * Capture the timing information of a buffer copy event, "buf_copy", broken
+ * out by the "size" of the buffer.
+ *
+ * DrmMetricGroup {
+ *   metrics[0] {
+ *     name: "buf_copy"
+ *     attributes[0] {
+ *       name: "size"
+ *       type: INT64_TYPE
+ *       int64Value: 1024
+ *     }
+ *     values[0] {
+ *       componentName: "operation_count"
+ *       type: INT64_TYPE
+ *       int64Value: 75
+ *     }
+ *     values[1] {
+ *       component_name: "average_time_seconds"
+ *       type: DOUBLE_TYPE
+ *       doubleValue: 0.00000042
+ *     }
+ *   }
+ * }
+ */
+struct DrmMetricGroup {
+    /**
+     * Used to discriminate the type of value being stored in the structs
+     * below.
+     */
+    enum ValueType : uint8_t {
+        INT64_TYPE,
+        DOUBLE_TYPE,
+        STRING_TYPE,
+    };
+
+    /**
+     * A detail about the metric being captured. The fields of an Attribute
+     * are opaque to the framework.
+     */
+    struct Attribute {
+        string name;
+        /**
+         * The type field indicates which of the following values is used.
+         */
+        ValueType type;
+        int64_t int64Value;
+        double doubleValue;
+        string stringValue;
+    };
+
+    /**
+     * A value of the metric. A metric may have multiple values. The
+     * component name may be left empty if there is only supposed to be
+     * one value for the given metric. The fields of the Value are
+     * opaque to the framework.
+     */
+    struct Value {
+        string componentName;
+        /**
+         * The type field indicates which of the following values is used.
+         */
+        ValueType type;
+        int64_t int64Value;
+        double doubleValue;
+        string stringValue;
+    };
+
+    /**
+     * The metric being captured. A metric must have a name and at least one
+     * value. A metric may have 0 or more attributes. The fields of a Metric
+     * are opaque to the framework.
+     */
+    struct Metric {
+        string name;
+        vec<Attribute> attributes;
+        // A Metric may have one or more values. Multiple values are useful
+        // for capturing different aspects of the same metric. E.g. capture
+        // the min, max, average, count, and stdev of a particular metric.
+        vec<Value> values;
+    };
+
+    /**
+     * The list of metrics to be captured.
+     */
+    vec<Metric> metrics;
+};
+
 /**
  * HDCP specifications are defined by Digital Content Protection LLC (DCP).
  *   "HDCP Specification Rev. 2.2 Interface Independent Adaptation"
@@ -112,3 +209,4 @@ enum SecurityLevel : uint32_t {
      */
     HW_SECURE_ALL,
 };
+