diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/elasticsearch/node/node.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/elasticsearch/node/node.js
index d58b67283ab05..bda6c51e9000e 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/elasticsearch/node/node.js
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/public/components/elasticsearch/node/node.js
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ export const Node = ({
   const metricsToShow = [
     metrics.node_jvm_mem,
     metrics.node_mem,
+    metrics.node_total_io,
     metrics.node_cpu_metric,
     metrics.node_load_average,
     metrics.node_latency,
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/metrics/__test__/__snapshots__/metrics.test.js.snap b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/metrics/__test__/__snapshots__/metrics.test.js.snap
index 78b6b24280548..96223fe6e37c6 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/metrics/__test__/__snapshots__/metrics.test.js.snap
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/metrics/__test__/__snapshots__/metrics.test.js.snap
@@ -4600,6 +4600,48 @@ Object {
     "units": "ms",
     "uuidField": "source_node.uuid",
   },
+  "node_total_cumul_io": RequestRateMetric {
+    "app": "elasticsearch",
+    "derivative": true,
+    "description": "Total I/O. (This metric is not supported on all platforms and may display N/A if I/O data is unavailable.)",
+    "field": "node_stats.fs.io_stats.total.operations",
+    "format": "0,0.[00]",
+    "label": "Total I/O",
+    "metricAgg": "max",
+    "timestampField": "timestamp",
+    "title": "I/O Operations Rate",
+    "type": "node",
+    "units": "/s",
+    "uuidField": "source_node.uuid",
+  },
+  "node_total_read_io": RequestRateMetric {
+    "app": "elasticsearch",
+    "derivative": true,
+    "description": "Total Read I/O. (This metric is not supported on all platforms and may display N/A if I/O data is unavailable.)",
+    "field": "node_stats.fs.io_stats.total.read_operations",
+    "format": "0,0.[00]",
+    "label": "Total Read I/O",
+    "metricAgg": "max",
+    "timestampField": "timestamp",
+    "title": "I/O Operations Rate",
+    "type": "node",
+    "units": "/s",
+    "uuidField": "source_node.uuid",
+  },
+  "node_total_write_io": RequestRateMetric {
+    "app": "elasticsearch",
+    "derivative": true,
+    "description": "Total Write I/O. (This metric is not supported on all platforms and may display N/A if I/O data is unavailable.)",
+    "field": "node_stats.fs.io_stats.total.write_operations",
+    "format": "0,0.[00]",
+    "label": "Total Write I/O",
+    "metricAgg": "max",
+    "timestampField": "timestamp",
+    "title": "I/O Operations Rate",
+    "type": "node",
+    "units": "/s",
+    "uuidField": "source_node.uuid",
+  },
   "search_request_rate": RequestRateMetric {
     "app": "elasticsearch",
     "derivative": true,
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/metrics/elasticsearch/metrics.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/metrics/elasticsearch/metrics.js
index 1cf8fd939086d..5df5674dea12a 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/metrics/elasticsearch/metrics.js
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/lib/metrics/elasticsearch/metrics.js
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ const indexRequestTimeTitle = i18n.translate('xpack.monitoring.metrics.esIndex.r
 const indexIndexingRateTitle = i18n.translate('xpack.monitoring.metrics.esIndex.indexingRateTitle', {
   defaultMessage: 'Indexing Rate'
 });
+const nodeIoRateTitle = i18n.translate('xpack.monitoring.metrics.esNode.ioRateTitle', {
+  defaultMessage: 'I/O Operations Rate'
+});
 const indexSegmentCountTitle = i18n.translate('xpack.monitoring.metrics.esIndex.segmentCountTitle', {
   defaultMessage: 'Segment Count'
 });
@@ -425,6 +428,48 @@ export const metrics = {
       defaultMessage: 'Heap memory used by the Index Writer. This is NOT a part of Lucene Total.'
     })
   }),
+  node_total_cumul_io: new RequestRateMetric({
+    field: 'node_stats.fs.io_stats.total.operations',
+    title: nodeIoRateTitle,
+    format: LARGE_FLOAT,
+    units: 'ops',
+    type: 'node',
+    derivative: true,
+    label: i18n.translate('xpack.monitoring.metrics.esNode.totalIoLabel', {
+      defaultMessage: 'Total I/O'
+    }),
+    description: i18n.translate('xpack.monitoring.metrics.esNode.totalIoDescription', {
+      defaultMessage: 'Total I/O. (This metric is not supported on all platforms and may display N/A if I/O data is unavailable.)'
+    })
+  }),
+  node_total_read_io: new RequestRateMetric({
+    field: 'node_stats.fs.io_stats.total.read_operations',
+    title: nodeIoRateTitle,
+    format: LARGE_FLOAT,
+    units: 'ops',
+    type: 'node',
+    derivative: true,
+    label: i18n.translate('xpack.monitoring.metrics.esNode.totalIoReadLabel', {
+      defaultMessage: 'Total Read I/O'
+    }),
+    description: i18n.translate('xpack.monitoring.metrics.esNode.totalIoReadDescription', {
+      defaultMessage: 'Total Read I/O. (This metric is not supported on all platforms and may display N/A if I/O data is unavailable.)'
+    })
+  }),
+  node_total_write_io: new RequestRateMetric({
+    field: 'node_stats.fs.io_stats.total.write_operations',
+    title: nodeIoRateTitle,
+    format: LARGE_FLOAT,
+    units: 'ops',
+    type: 'node',
+    derivative: true,
+    label: i18n.translate('xpack.monitoring.metrics.esNode.totalIoWriteLabel', {
+      defaultMessage: 'Total Write I/O'
+    }),
+    description: i18n.translate('xpack.monitoring.metrics.esNode.totalIoWriteDescription', {
+      defaultMessage: 'Total Write I/O. (This metric is not supported on all platforms and may display N/A if I/O data is unavailable.)'
+    })
+  }),
   index_request_rate_primary: new ElasticsearchMetric({
     field: 'index_stats.primaries.indexing.index_total',
     title: indexIndexingRateTitle,
diff --git a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/routes/api/v1/elasticsearch/metric_set_node_detail.js b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/routes/api/v1/elasticsearch/metric_set_node_detail.js
index b6322bb67f047..f99cf9fac3d0d 100644
--- a/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/routes/api/v1/elasticsearch/metric_set_node_detail.js
+++ b/x-pack/legacy/plugins/monitoring/server/routes/api/v1/elasticsearch/metric_set_node_detail.js
@@ -92,9 +92,13 @@ export const metricSets = {
     {
       keys: ['node_query_latency', 'node_index_latency'],
       name: 'node_latency'
-    }
+    },
   ],
   overview: [
+    {
+      keys: ['node_total_cumul_io', 'node_total_read_io', 'node_total_write_io'],
+      name: 'node_total_io',
+    },
     {
       keys: ['node_query_latency', 'node_index_latency'],
       name: 'node_latency'
diff --git a/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/monitoring/elasticsearch/fixtures/node_detail.json b/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/monitoring/elasticsearch/fixtures/node_detail.json
index db853337e0539..c2ee3a818fe14 100644
--- a/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/monitoring/elasticsearch/fixtures/node_detail.json
+++ b/x-pack/test/api_integration/apis/monitoring/elasticsearch/fixtures/node_detail.json
@@ -179,6 +179,66 @@
         "isDerivative": false
       },
       "data": []
+    }],
+		"node_total_io": [{
+ 			"bucket_size": "10 seconds",
+			"data": [],
+			"metric": {
+				"app": "elasticsearch",
+				"description": "Total I/O. (This metric is not supported on all platforms and may display N/A if I/O data is unavailable.)",
+				"field": "node_stats.fs.io_stats.total.operations",
+				"format": "0,0.[00]",
+				"hasCalculation": false,
+				"isDerivative": true,
+				"label": "Total I/O",
+				"metricAgg": "max",
+				"title": "I/O Operations Rate",
+				"units": "/s"
+			},
+			"timeRange": {
+				"max": 1507235712000,
+				"min": 1507235508000
+			}
+		},
+		{
+			"bucket_size": "10 seconds",
+			"data": [],
+			"metric": {
+				"app": "elasticsearch",
+				"description": "Total Read I/O. (This metric is not supported on all platforms and may display N/A if I/O data is unavailable.)",
+				"field": "node_stats.fs.io_stats.total.read_operations",
+        "format": "0,0.[00]",
+        "hasCalculation": false,
+        "isDerivative": true,
+        "label": "Total Read I/O",
+        "metricAgg": "max",
+        "title": "I/O Operations Rate",
+        "units": "/s"
+      },
+      "timeRange": {
+        "max": 1507235712000,
+        "min": 1507235508000
+      }
+    },
+    {
+      "bucket_size": "10 seconds",
+      "data": [],
+      "metric": {
+				"app": "elasticsearch",
+				"description": "Total Write I/O. (This metric is not supported on all platforms and may display N/A if I/O data is unavailable.)",
+				"field": "node_stats.fs.io_stats.total.write_operations",
+				"format": "0,0.[00]",
+        "hasCalculation": false,
+        "isDerivative": true,
+        "label": "Total Write I/O",
+        "metricAgg": "max",
+        "title": "I/O Operations Rate",
+        "units": "/s"
+      },
+      "timeRange": {
+        "max": 1507235712000,
+        "min": 1507235508000
+      }
     }],
     "node_load_average": [{
       "bucket_size": "10 seconds",