diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index a9b7990e3c..be7fad418d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ We use *breaking :warning:* to mark changes that are not backward compatible (re
 - [#8000](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/8000) Query: Bump promql-engine, pass partial response through options
 - [#7353](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/7353) [#8045](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/8045) Receiver/StoreGateway: Add `--matcher-cache-size` option to enable caching for regex matchers in series calls.
 - [#8017](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/8017) Store Gateway: Use native histogram for binary reader load and download duration and fixed download duration metric. #8017
+- [#8062](https://github.com/thanos-io/thanos/pull/8062) Mixin: Add compact todo/backlog metrics to dashboard.
 
 ### Changed
 
diff --git a/examples/dashboards/compact.json b/examples/dashboards/compact.json
index b0f53f004a..738519eb34 100644
--- a/examples/dashboards/compact.json
+++ b/examples/dashboards/compact.json
@@ -1441,6 +1441,249 @@
          "title": "Object Store Operations",
          "titleSize": "h6"
       },
+      {
+         "collapse": false,
+         "height": "250px",
+         "panels": [
+            {
+               "aliasColors": { },
+               "bars": false,
+               "dashLength": 10,
+               "dashes": false,
+               "datasource": "$datasource",
+               "description": "Shows the number of blocks waiting for compaction.",
+               "fill": 10,
+               "id": 17,
+               "legend": {
+                  "avg": false,
+                  "current": false,
+                  "max": false,
+                  "min": false,
+                  "show": true,
+                  "total": false,
+                  "values": false
+               },
+               "lines": true,
+               "linewidth": 0,
+               "links": [ ],
+               "nullPointMode": "null as zero",
+               "percentage": false,
+               "pointradius": 5,
+               "points": false,
+               "renderer": "flot",
+               "seriesOverrides": [ ],
+               "spaceLength": 10,
+               "span": 4,
+               "stack": true,
+               "steppedLine": false,
+               "targets": [
+                  {
+                     "expr": "sum by (job) (thanos_compact_todo_compaction_blocks{job=~\"$job\"})",
+                     "format": "time_series",
+                     "intervalFactor": 2,
+                     "legendFormat": "{{job}}",
+                     "legendLink": null,
+                     "step": 10
+                  }
+               ],
+               "thresholds": [ ],
+               "timeFrom": null,
+               "timeShift": null,
+               "title": "Compaction",
+               "tooltip": {
+                  "shared": false,
+                  "sort": 0,
+                  "value_type": "individual"
+               },
+               "type": "graph",
+               "xaxis": {
+                  "buckets": null,
+                  "mode": "time",
+                  "name": null,
+                  "show": true,
+                  "values": [ ]
+               },
+               "yaxes": [
+                  {
+                     "format": "short",
+                     "label": null,
+                     "logBase": 1,
+                     "max": null,
+                     "min": 0,
+                     "show": true
+                  },
+                  {
+                     "format": "short",
+                     "label": null,
+                     "logBase": 1,
+                     "max": null,
+                     "min": null,
+                     "show": false
+                  }
+               ]
+            },
+            {
+               "aliasColors": { },
+               "bars": false,
+               "dashLength": 10,
+               "dashes": false,
+               "datasource": "$datasource",
+               "description": "Shows the number of blocks waiting for downsampling.",
+               "fill": 10,
+               "id": 18,
+               "legend": {
+                  "avg": false,
+                  "current": false,
+                  "max": false,
+                  "min": false,
+                  "show": true,
+                  "total": false,
+                  "values": false
+               },
+               "lines": true,
+               "linewidth": 0,
+               "links": [ ],
+               "nullPointMode": "null as zero",
+               "percentage": false,
+               "pointradius": 5,
+               "points": false,
+               "renderer": "flot",
+               "seriesOverrides": [ ],
+               "spaceLength": 10,
+               "span": 4,
+               "stack": true,
+               "steppedLine": false,
+               "targets": [
+                  {
+                     "expr": "sum by (job) (thanos_compact_todo_downsample_blocks{job=~\"$job\"})",
+                     "format": "time_series",
+                     "intervalFactor": 2,
+                     "legendFormat": "{{job}}",
+                     "legendLink": null,
+                     "step": 10
+                  }
+               ],
+               "thresholds": [ ],
+               "timeFrom": null,
+               "timeShift": null,
+               "title": "Downsampling",
+               "tooltip": {
+                  "shared": false,
+                  "sort": 0,
+                  "value_type": "individual"
+               },
+               "type": "graph",
+               "xaxis": {
+                  "buckets": null,
+                  "mode": "time",
+                  "name": null,
+                  "show": true,
+                  "values": [ ]
+               },
+               "yaxes": [
+                  {
+                     "format": "short",
+                     "label": null,
+                     "logBase": 1,
+                     "max": null,
+                     "min": 0,
+                     "show": true
+                  },
+                  {
+                     "format": "short",
+                     "label": null,
+                     "logBase": 1,
+                     "max": null,
+                     "min": null,
+                     "show": false
+                  }
+               ]
+            },
+            {
+               "aliasColors": { },
+               "bars": false,
+               "dashLength": 10,
+               "dashes": false,
+               "datasource": "$datasource",
+               "description": "Shows the number of blocks waiting for deletion.",
+               "fill": 10,
+               "id": 19,
+               "legend": {
+                  "avg": false,
+                  "current": false,
+                  "max": false,
+                  "min": false,
+                  "show": true,
+                  "total": false,
+                  "values": false
+               },
+               "lines": true,
+               "linewidth": 0,
+               "links": [ ],
+               "nullPointMode": "null as zero",
+               "percentage": false,
+               "pointradius": 5,
+               "points": false,
+               "renderer": "flot",
+               "seriesOverrides": [ ],
+               "spaceLength": 10,
+               "span": 4,
+               "stack": true,
+               "steppedLine": false,
+               "targets": [
+                  {
+                     "expr": "sum by (job) (thanos_compact_todo_deletion_blocks{job=~\"$job\"})",
+                     "format": "time_series",
+                     "intervalFactor": 2,
+                     "legendFormat": "{{job}}",
+                     "legendLink": null,
+                     "step": 10
+                  }
+               ],
+               "thresholds": [ ],
+               "timeFrom": null,
+               "timeShift": null,
+               "title": "Deletion",
+               "tooltip": {
+                  "shared": false,
+                  "sort": 0,
+                  "value_type": "individual"
+               },
+               "type": "graph",
+               "xaxis": {
+                  "buckets": null,
+                  "mode": "time",
+                  "name": null,
+                  "show": true,
+                  "values": [ ]
+               },
+               "yaxes": [
+                  {
+                     "format": "short",
+                     "label": null,
+                     "logBase": 1,
+                     "max": null,
+                     "min": 0,
+                     "show": true
+                  },
+                  {
+                     "format": "short",
+                     "label": null,
+                     "logBase": 1,
+                     "max": null,
+                     "min": null,
+                     "show": false
+                  }
+               ]
+            }
+         ],
+         "repeat": null,
+         "repeatIteration": null,
+         "repeatRowId": null,
+         "showTitle": true,
+         "title": "Backlog",
+         "titleSize": "h6"
+      },
       {
          "collapse": true,
          "height": "250px",
@@ -1452,7 +1695,7 @@
                "dashes": false,
                "datasource": "$datasource",
                "fill": 1,
-               "id": 17,
+               "id": 20,
                "legend": {
                   "avg": false,
                   "current": false,
@@ -1568,7 +1811,7 @@
                "dashes": false,
                "datasource": "$datasource",
                "fill": 1,
-               "id": 18,
+               "id": 21,
                "legend": {
                   "avg": false,
                   "current": false,
@@ -1644,7 +1887,7 @@
                "dashes": false,
                "datasource": "$datasource",
                "fill": 1,
-               "id": 19,
+               "id": 22,
                "legend": {
                   "avg": false,
                   "current": false,
diff --git a/mixin/dashboards/compact.libsonnet b/mixin/dashboards/compact.libsonnet
index 9018e360d1..09c5921c6a 100644
--- a/mixin/dashboards/compact.libsonnet
+++ b/mixin/dashboards/compact.libsonnet
@@ -169,6 +169,33 @@ local g = import '../lib/thanos-grafana-builder/builder.libsonnet';
           g.latencyPanel('thanos_objstore_bucket_operation_duration_seconds', thanos.compact.dashboard.selector, thanos.compact.dashboard.dimensions)
         )
       )
+      .addRow(
+        g.row('Backlog')
+        .addPanel(
+          g.panel('Compaction', 'Shows the number of blocks waiting for compaction.') +
+          g.queryPanel(
+            'sum by (%(dimensions)s) (thanos_compact_todo_compaction_blocks{%(selector)s})' % thanos.compact.dashboard,
+            '{{job}}'
+          ) +
+          g.stack
+        )
+        .addPanel(
+          g.panel('Downsampling', 'Shows the number of blocks waiting for downsampling.') +
+          g.queryPanel(
+            'sum by (%(dimensions)s) (thanos_compact_todo_downsample_blocks{%(selector)s})' % thanos.compact.dashboard,
+            '{{job}}'
+          ) +
+          g.stack
+        )
+        .addPanel(
+          g.panel('Deletion', 'Shows the number of blocks waiting for deletion.') +
+          g.queryPanel(
+            'sum by (%(dimensions)s) (thanos_compact_todo_deletion_blocks{%(selector)s})' % thanos.compact.dashboard,
+            '{{job}}'
+          ) +
+          g.stack
+        )
+      )
       .addRow(
         g.resourceUtilizationRow(thanos.compact.dashboard.selector, thanos.compact.dashboard.dimensions)
       ),