diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 7a05d17827..7b55089f5d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 3.11.15
+ * Fix sstable_count metric missing from tablestats json/yaml output (CASSANDRA-18448)
  * Suppress CVE-2022-45688 (CASSANDRA-18389)
  * Fix Splitter sometimes creating more splits than requested (CASSANDRA-18013)
 Merged from 3.0:
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/tools/nodetool/stats/TableStatsHolder.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/tools/nodetool/stats/TableStatsHolder.java
index 19ab53cc8a..300895f288 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/tools/nodetool/stats/TableStatsHolder.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/tools/nodetool/stats/TableStatsHolder.java
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ public class TableStatsHolder implements StatsHolder
             {
                 Map<String, Object> mpTable = new HashMap<>();
 
+                mpTable.put("sstable_count", table.sstableCount);
                 mpTable.put("sstables_in_each_level", table.sstablesInEachLevel);
                 mpTable.put("space_used_live", table.spaceUsedLive);
                 mpTable.put("space_used_total", table.spaceUsedTotal);