diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/CompactionManager.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/CompactionManager.java
index 316e4582a0..18336e2f4c 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/CompactionManager.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/CompactionManager.java
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
 
 import org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.DebuggableThreadPoolExecutor;
+import org.apache.cassandra.concurrent.JMXEnabledThreadPoolExecutor;
 import org.apache.cassandra.dht.Range;
 import org.apache.cassandra.io.*;
 import org.apache.cassandra.io.sstable.*;
@@ -625,7 +626,7 @@ public class CompactionManager implements CompactionManagerMBean
 
         public CompactionExecutor()
         {
-            super("COMPACTION-POOL");
+            super("CompactionExecutor");
         }
 
         @Override
@@ -682,4 +683,9 @@ public class CompactionManager implements CompactionManagerMBean
         }
         return n;
     }
+
+    public long getCompletedTasks()
+    {
+        return executor.getTaskCount() - executor.getCompletedTaskCount();
+    }
 }
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/CompactionManagerMBean.java b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/CompactionManagerMBean.java
index 0bb7c3fb4c..719c020aa2 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/CompactionManagerMBean.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/db/CompactionManagerMBean.java
@@ -59,4 +59,9 @@ public interface CompactionManagerMBean
      * @return estimated number of compactions remaining to perform
      */
     public int getPendingTasks();
+
+    /**
+     * @return number of completed compactions since server [re]start
+     */
+    public long getCompletedTasks();
 }