diff --git a/apps/webapp/app/v3/services/worker/workerGroupTokenService.server.ts b/apps/webapp/app/v3/services/worker/workerGroupTokenService.server.ts
index e66d5429c18..f9226cbc923 100644
--- a/apps/webapp/app/v3/services/worker/workerGroupTokenService.server.ts
+++ b/apps/webapp/app/v3/services/worker/workerGroupTokenService.server.ts
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import type {
   StartRunAttemptResult,
   TaskRunExecutionResult,
 } from "@trigger.dev/core/v3";
+import { getMeter } from "@internal/tracing";
 import { SemanticInternalAttributes } from "@trigger.dev/core/v3";
 import { fromFriendlyId } from "@trigger.dev/core/v3/isomorphic";
 import { WORKER_HEADERS, type WorkerQueueClass } from "@trigger.dev/core/v3/workers";
@@ -21,11 +22,9 @@ import { Prisma, WorkerInstanceGroupType } from "@trigger.dev/database";
 import { json } from "@remix-run/server-runtime";
 import { createHash, timingSafeEqual } from "crypto";
 import { customAlphabet } from "nanoid";
-import { Counter } from "prom-client";
 import { z } from "zod";
 import { env } from "~/env.server";
-import { metricsRegister } from "~/metrics.server";
-import { evaluateCreatedAtGate } from "./workloadTokenAuthorization.server";
+import { evaluateCreatedAtGate, runAgeBucket } from "./workloadTokenAuthorization.server";
 import {
   isWorkerQueueDequeueDisabled,
   recordBlockedDequeue,
@@ -62,17 +61,11 @@ if (workloadCreatedAtGateEnabled && !workloadTokenCutoff) {
 
 type WorkloadGateAction = "start" | "complete" | "continue" | "snapshots_since";
 
-// singleton: module-scope registration double-registers under dev HMR
-const workloadAuthGateCounter = singleton(
-  "workloadAuthGateCounter",
-  () =>
-    new Counter({
-      name: "workload_auth_gate_total",
-      help: "Deployment token authorization outcomes on worker actions",
-      labelNames: ["outcome", "action"] as const,
-      registers: [metricsRegister],
-    })
-);
+const meter = getMeter("workload-auth-gate");
+
+const workloadAuthGateCounter = meter.createCounter("workload_auth_gate_total", {
+  description: "Deployment token authorization outcomes on worker actions",
+});
 
 function createAuthenticatedWorkerInstanceCache() {
   return createCache({
@@ -456,7 +449,7 @@ export class AuthenticatedWorkerInstance extends WithRunEngine {
     if (environmentId) {
       // Scoping is delegated to the engine snapshot read; no run-row read here. Recorded so the
       // platform can see how much traffic is env-scoped as enforcement rolls out.
-      workloadAuthGateCounter.inc({ outcome: "env_scoped", action });
+      workloadAuthGateCounter.add(1, { outcome: "env_scoped", action });
       return;
     }
 
@@ -464,7 +457,10 @@ export class AuthenticatedWorkerInstance extends WithRunEngine {
       return;
     }
 
-    const run = await this._engine.runStore.findRun({ id: runId }, { select: { createdAt: true } });
+    const run = await this._engine.runStore.findRun(
+      { id: runId },
+      { select: { createdAt: true, environmentType: true } }
+    );
 
     if (!run) {
       // Let the engine method surface the canonical not-found error.
@@ -476,7 +472,12 @@ export class AuthenticatedWorkerInstance extends WithRunEngine {
       cutoff: workloadTokenCutoff,
     });
 
-    workloadAuthGateCounter.inc({ outcome, action });
+    workloadAuthGateCounter.add(1, {
+      outcome,
+      action,
+      env_type: run.environmentType ?? "unknown",
+      run_age_bucket: runAgeBucket(run.createdAt, new Date()),
+    });
 
     if (!allow) {
       logger.warn("[workload-auth] rejecting untokened worker action created after cutoff", {
diff --git a/apps/webapp/app/v3/services/worker/workloadTokenAuthorization.server.ts b/apps/webapp/app/v3/services/worker/workloadTokenAuthorization.server.ts
index f26a359d0a7..179be37ccbc 100644
--- a/apps/webapp/app/v3/services/worker/workloadTokenAuthorization.server.ts
+++ b/apps/webapp/app/v3/services/worker/workloadTokenAuthorization.server.ts
@@ -25,3 +25,22 @@ export function evaluateCreatedAtGate(params: {
     ? { outcome: "suppressed", allow: false }
     : { outcome: "grandfathered", allow: true };
 }
+
+const HOUR_MS = 60 * 60 * 1000;
+const DAY_MS = 24 * HOUR_MS;
+
+const RUN_AGE_BUCKETS = [
+  { under: HOUR_MS, label: "lt_1h" },
+  { under: DAY_MS, label: "1h_1d" },
+  { under: 7 * DAY_MS, label: "1d_7d" },
+  { under: 30 * DAY_MS, label: "7d_30d" },
+] as const;
+
+/**
+ * Coarse age of the run behind an untokened worker action. Reading this while the cutoff is set far
+ * in the future answers "what would a cutoff of X reject" without rejecting anything.
+ */
+export function runAgeBucket(runCreatedAt: Date, now: Date): string {
+  const ageMs = now.getTime() - runCreatedAt.getTime();
+  return RUN_AGE_BUCKETS.find((bucket) => ageMs < bucket.under)?.label ?? "gt_30d";
+}
diff --git a/apps/webapp/test/workloadTokenAuthorization.test.ts b/apps/webapp/test/workloadTokenAuthorization.test.ts
index 205db263255..78fc985d684 100644
--- a/apps/webapp/test/workloadTokenAuthorization.test.ts
+++ b/apps/webapp/test/workloadTokenAuthorization.test.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest";
-import { evaluateCreatedAtGate } from "~/v3/services/worker/workloadTokenAuthorization.server";
+import {
+  evaluateCreatedAtGate,
+  runAgeBucket,
+} from "~/v3/services/worker/workloadTokenAuthorization.server";
 
 const cutoff = new Date("2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z");
 const before = new Date("2026-07-01T00:00:00.000Z");
@@ -24,3 +27,30 @@ describe("evaluateCreatedAtGate", () => {
     expect(result.allow).toBe(true);
   });
 });
+
+describe("runAgeBucket", () => {
+  const now = new Date("2026-08-28T12:00:00.000Z");
+  const agoMs = (ms: number) => new Date(now.getTime() - ms);
+
+  const HOUR = 60 * 60 * 1000;
+  const DAY = 24 * HOUR;
+
+  it.each([
+    [agoMs(0), "lt_1h"],
+    [agoMs(HOUR - 1), "lt_1h"],
+    [agoMs(HOUR), "1h_1d"],
+    [agoMs(DAY - 1), "1h_1d"],
+    [agoMs(DAY), "1d_7d"],
+    [agoMs(7 * DAY - 1), "1d_7d"],
+    [agoMs(7 * DAY), "7d_30d"],
+    [agoMs(30 * DAY - 1), "7d_30d"],
+    [agoMs(30 * DAY), "gt_30d"],
+    [agoMs(365 * DAY), "gt_30d"],
+  ])("buckets %s as %s", (createdAt, expected) => {
+    expect(runAgeBucket(createdAt, now)).toBe(expected);
+  });
+
+  it("puts a future createdAt in the youngest bucket rather than throwing", () => {
+    expect(runAgeBucket(new Date(now.getTime() + DAY), now)).toBe("lt_1h");
+  });
+});