diff --git a/ansible/install/group_vars/all.yml b/ansible/install/group_vars/all.yml
index eac388d78..980b8861c 100644
--- a/ansible/install/group_vars/all.yml
+++ b/ansible/install/group_vars/all.yml
@@ -260,6 +260,13 @@ regex_warn: false
 regex_info: false
 
 
+########################################################
+# Ping Plugin for Latency and Jitter between controllers
+########################################################
+# Might result in more network traffic
+ping_plugin: false
+ping_interval: 1
+
 ############################
 # OpenDaylight JAVA Plugin
 ###########################
diff --git a/ansible/install/roles/collectd-openstack/defaults/main.yml b/ansible/install/roles/collectd-openstack/defaults/main.yml
index 419b0460d..702af0cfe 100644
--- a/ansible/install/roles/collectd-openstack/defaults/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/install/roles/collectd-openstack/defaults/main.yml
@@ -145,3 +145,10 @@ karaf_password: karaf
 # Determines if WARN/INFO messages are also counted
 regex_warn: false
 regex_info: false
+
+########################################################
+# Ping Plugin for Latency and Jitter between controllers
+########################################################
+# Might result in more network traffic
+ping_plugin: false
+ping_interval: 1
diff --git a/ansible/install/roles/collectd-openstack/tasks/main.yml b/ansible/install/roles/collectd-openstack/tasks/main.yml
index 11684a29c..adb08b01a 100644
--- a/ansible/install/roles/collectd-openstack/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/ansible/install/roles/collectd-openstack/tasks/main.yml
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
     - collectd-ceph
     - collectd-mysql
     - collectd-turbostat
+    - collectd-ping
 
 # (sai) Separating out collectd java rpms as they have a lot of dependencies and
 # are only required for ODL monitoring on controllers only
diff --git a/ansible/install/roles/collectd-openstack/templates/controller.collectd.conf.j2 b/ansible/install/roles/collectd-openstack/templates/controller.collectd.conf.j2
index 05bbbb6f3..6bc418e35 100644
--- a/ansible/install/roles/collectd-openstack/templates/controller.collectd.conf.j2
+++ b/ansible/install/roles/collectd-openstack/templates/controller.collectd.conf.j2
@@ -51,11 +51,13 @@ LoadPlugin tail
 LoadPlugin turbostat
 LoadPlugin unixsock
 LoadPlugin uptime
+{% if ping_plugin %}
+LoadPlugin ping
+{% endif %}
 {% if opendaylight_java_plugin %}
 LoadPlugin java
 {% endif %}
 
-
 # Open unix domain socket for collectdctl
 <Plugin unixsock>
   SocketFile "/var/run/collectd-unixsock"
@@ -423,6 +425,25 @@ PreCacheChain "PreCache"
   ValuesPercentage true
 </Plugin>
 
+# ping plugin
+{% if ping_plugin %}
+{% if groups['controller'] | length > 1 %}
+<Plugin "ping">
+{% if inventory_hostname == groups['controller'][0] %}
+   Host "{{groups['controller'][1]}}"
+   Host "{{groups['controller'][2]}}"
+{% elif inventory_hostname == groups['controller'][1] %}
+   Host "{{groups['controller'][0]}}"
+   Host "{{groups['controller'][2]}}"
+{% elif inventory_hostname == groups['controller'][2] %}
+   Host "{{groups['controller'][0]}}"
+   Host "{{groups['controller'][1]}}"
+{% endif %}
+   Interval {{ping_interval}}
+</Plugin>
+{% endif %}
+{% endif %}
+
 # Tail plugin configuration
 <Plugin "tail">
 
diff --git a/ansible/install/roles/grafana-dashboards/templates/openstack_general_system_performance.json.j2 b/ansible/install/roles/grafana-dashboards/templates/openstack_general_system_performance.json.j2
index aa26c639a..d47ea3e1f 100644
--- a/ansible/install/roles/grafana-dashboards/templates/openstack_general_system_performance.json.j2
+++ b/ansible/install/roles/grafana-dashboards/templates/openstack_general_system_performance.json.j2
@@ -2670,6 +2670,81 @@
               "short",
               "percent"
             ]
+          },
+          {
+            "aliasColors": {},
+            "bars": false,
+            "dashLength": 10,
+            "dashes": false,
+            "datasource": null,
+            "fill": 1,
+            {% if vars.update({'panel_idx': (vars.panel_idx + 1)}) %} {% endif %}
+            "id": {{vars.panel_idx}},
+            "legend": {
+              "alignAsTable": true,
+              "avg": true,
+              "current": false,
+              "max": true,
+              "min": true,
+              "rightSide": true,
+              "show": true,
+              "total": false,
+              "values": true
+            },
+            "lines": true,
+            "linewidth": 2,
+            "links": [],
+            "nullPointMode": "null",
+            "percentage": false,
+            "pointradius": 5,
+            "points": false,
+            "renderer": "flot",
+            "seriesOverrides": [],
+            "spaceLength": 10,
+            "span": 12,
+            "stack": false,
+            "steppedLine": false,
+            "targets": [
+              {
+                "refId": "A",
+                "target": "aliasByNode($Cloud.$Node.ping.*, 3)"
+              }
+            ],
+            "thresholds": [],
+            "timeFrom": null,
+            "timeShift": null,
+            "title": "Ping- Latency and Jitter",
+            "tooltip": {
+              "shared": true,
+              "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": null,
+                "show": true
+              },
+              {
+                "format": "short",
+                "label": null,
+                "logBase": 1,
+                "max": null,
+                "min": null,
+                "show": false
+              }
+            ]
           }
         ],
         "showTitle": true,