diff --git a/src/table/src/table.rs b/src/table/src/table.rs
index 65a110658a40..099481a9077b 100644
--- a/src/table/src/table.rs
+++ b/src/table/src/table.rs
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 // limitations under the License.
 
 pub mod adapter;
+mod metrics;
 pub mod numbers;
 pub mod scan;
 
diff --git a/src/table/src/table/metrics.rs b/src/table/src/table/metrics.rs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e24f0ff90a6b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/table/src/table/metrics.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+// Copyright 2023 Greptime Team
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+use datafusion::physical_plan::metrics::{
+    Count, ExecutionPlanMetricsSet, Gauge, MetricBuilder, Timestamp,
+};
+
+/// This metrics struct is used to record and hold memory usage
+/// of result batch in [`crate::table::scan::StreamWithMetricWrapper`]
+/// during query execution, indicating size of the dataset.
+#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+pub struct MemoryUsageMetrics {
+    end_time: Timestamp,
+    // used memory in bytes
+    mem_used: Gauge,
+    // number of rows in output
+    output_rows: Count,
+}
+
+impl MemoryUsageMetrics {
+    /// Create a new MemoryUsageMetrics structure, and set `start_time` to now
+    pub fn new(metrics: &ExecutionPlanMetricsSet, partition: usize) -> Self {
+        let start_time = MetricBuilder::new(metrics).start_timestamp(partition);
+        start_time.record();
+
+        Self {
+            end_time: MetricBuilder::new(metrics).end_timestamp(partition),
+            mem_used: MetricBuilder::new(metrics).mem_used(partition),
+            output_rows: MetricBuilder::new(metrics).output_rows(partition),
+        }
+    }
+
+    pub fn record_mem_usage(&self, mem_used: usize) {
+        self.mem_used.add(mem_used);
+    }
+
+    pub fn record_output(&self, num_rows: usize) {
+        self.output_rows.add(num_rows);
+    }
+
+    /// Record the end time of the query
+    pub fn try_done(&self) {
+        if self.end_time.value().is_none() {
+            self.end_time.record()
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+impl Drop for MemoryUsageMetrics {
+    fn drop(&mut self) {
+        self.try_done()
+    }
+}
diff --git a/src/table/src/table/scan.rs b/src/table/src/table/scan.rs
index 01b57879cf6a..6e04f92d0e1e 100644
--- a/src/table/src/table/scan.rs
+++ b/src/table/src/table/scan.rs
@@ -24,12 +24,14 @@ use common_query::physical_plan::{Partitioning, PhysicalPlan, PhysicalPlanRef};
 use common_recordbatch::error::Result as RecordBatchResult;
 use common_recordbatch::{RecordBatch, RecordBatchStream, SendableRecordBatchStream};
 use datafusion::execution::context::TaskContext;
-use datafusion::physical_plan::metrics::{BaselineMetrics, ExecutionPlanMetricsSet, MetricsSet};
+use datafusion::physical_plan::metrics::{ExecutionPlanMetricsSet, MetricsSet};
 use datafusion_physical_expr::PhysicalSortExpr;
 use datatypes::schema::SchemaRef;
 use futures::{Stream, StreamExt};
 use snafu::OptionExt;
 
+use crate::table::metrics::MemoryUsageMetrics;
+
 /// Adapt greptime's [SendableRecordBatchStream] to GreptimeDB's [PhysicalPlan].
 pub struct StreamScanAdapter {
     stream: Mutex<Option<SendableRecordBatchStream>>,
@@ -97,10 +99,10 @@ impl PhysicalPlan for StreamScanAdapter {
     ) -> QueryResult<SendableRecordBatchStream> {
         let mut stream = self.stream.lock().unwrap();
         let stream = stream.take().context(query_error::ExecuteRepeatedlySnafu)?;
-        let baseline_metric = BaselineMetrics::new(&self.metric, partition);
+        let mem_usage_metrics = MemoryUsageMetrics::new(&self.metric, partition);
         Ok(Box::pin(StreamWithMetricWrapper {
             stream,
-            metric: baseline_metric,
+            metric: mem_usage_metrics,
         }))
     }
 
@@ -111,7 +113,7 @@ impl PhysicalPlan for StreamScanAdapter {
 
 pub struct StreamWithMetricWrapper {
     stream: SendableRecordBatchStream,
-    metric: BaselineMetrics,
+    metric: MemoryUsageMetrics,
 }
 
 impl Stream for StreamWithMetricWrapper {
@@ -119,9 +121,16 @@ impl Stream for StreamWithMetricWrapper {
 
     fn poll_next(self: Pin<&mut Self>, cx: &mut Context<'_>) -> Poll<Option<Self::Item>> {
         let this = self.get_mut();
-        let _timer = this.metric.elapsed_compute().timer();
         let poll = this.stream.poll_next_unpin(cx);
-        if let Poll::Ready(Option::Some(Result::Ok(record_batch))) = &poll {
+        if let Poll::Ready(Some(Ok(record_batch))) = &poll {
+            let batch_mem_size = record_batch
+                .columns()
+                .iter()
+                .map(|vec_ref| vec_ref.memory_size())
+                .sum::<usize>();
+            // we don't record elapsed time here
+            // since it's calling storage api involving I/O ops
+            this.metric.record_mem_usage(batch_mem_size);
             this.metric.record_output(record_batch.num_rows());
         }