diff --git a/services/document-updater/app/coffee/UpdateManager.coffee b/services/document-updater/app/coffee/UpdateManager.coffee
index e821926015..5064725aa0 100644
--- a/services/document-updater/app/coffee/UpdateManager.coffee
+++ b/services/document-updater/app/coffee/UpdateManager.coffee
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ RealTimeRedisManager = require "./RealTimeRedisManager"
 ShareJsUpdateManager = require "./ShareJsUpdateManager"
 HistoryManager = require "./HistoryManager"
 Settings = require('settings-sharelatex')
+_ = require("underscore")
 async = require("async")
 logger = require('logger-sharelatex')
 Metrics = require "./Metrics"
@@ -69,7 +70,7 @@ module.exports = UpdateManager =
 		profile = new Profiler("applyUpdate", {project_id, doc_id})
 		UpdateManager._sanitizeUpdate update
 		profile.log("sanitizeUpdate")
-		DocumentManager.getDoc project_id, doc_id, (error, lines, version, ranges) ->
+		DocumentManager.getDoc project_id, doc_id, (error, lines, version, ranges, pathname) ->
 			profile.log("getDoc")
 			return callback(error) if error?
 			if !lines? or !version?
@@ -78,6 +79,7 @@ module.exports = UpdateManager =
 				profile.log("sharejs.applyUpdate")
 				return callback(error) if error?
 				RangesManager.applyUpdate project_id, doc_id, ranges, appliedOps, updatedDocLines, (error, new_ranges) ->
+					UpdateManager._addProjectHistoryMetadataToOps(appliedOps, pathname, updatedDocLines)
 					profile.log("RangesManager.applyUpdate")
 					return callback(error) if error?
 					RedisManager.updateDocument project_id, doc_id, updatedDocLines, version, appliedOps, new_ranges, (error, doc_ops_length, project_ops_length) ->
@@ -108,15 +110,15 @@ module.exports = UpdateManager =
 	_handleErrorInsideLock: (doc_id, lockValue, original_error, callback = (error) ->) ->
 		LockManager.releaseLock doc_id, lockValue, (lock_error) ->
 			callback(original_error)
-	
+
 	_sanitizeUpdate: (update) ->
 		# In Javascript, characters are 16-bits wide. It does not understand surrogates as characters.
-		# 
+		#
 		# From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(Unicode)#Basic_Multilingual_Plane):
 		# "The High Surrogates (U+D800–U+DBFF) and Low Surrogate (U+DC00–U+DFFF) codes are reserved
 		# for encoding non-BMP characters in UTF-16 by using a pair of 16-bit codes: one High Surrogate
 		# and one Low Surrogate. A single surrogate code point will never be assigned a character.""
-		# 
+		#
 		# The main offender seems to be \uD835 as a stand alone character, which would be the first
 		# 16-bit character of a blackboard bold character (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1d400/index.htm).
 		# Something must be going on client side that is screwing up the encoding and splitting the
@@ -127,3 +129,12 @@ module.exports = UpdateManager =
 				op.i = op.i.replace(/[\uD800-\uDFFF]/g, "\uFFFD")
 		return update
 
+	_addProjectHistoryMetadataToOps: (ops, pathname, lines) ->
+		doc_length = _.reduce lines,
+			(chars, line) -> chars + line.length,
+			0
+		doc_length += lines.length - 1  # count newline characters
+		ops.forEach (op) ->
+			op.meta ||= {}
+			op.meta.pathname = pathname
+			op.meta.doc_length = doc_length
diff --git a/services/document-updater/test/unit/coffee/UpdateManager/UpdateManagerTests.coffee b/services/document-updater/test/unit/coffee/UpdateManager/UpdateManagerTests.coffee
index b68698bc49..946f5d9fbe 100644
--- a/services/document-updater/test/unit/coffee/UpdateManager/UpdateManagerTests.coffee
+++ b/services/document-updater/test/unit/coffee/UpdateManager/UpdateManagerTests.coffee
@@ -163,14 +163,16 @@ describe "UpdateManager", ->
 			@lines = ["original", "lines"]
 			@ranges = { entries: "mock", comments: "mock" }
 			@updated_ranges = { entries: "updated", comments: "updated" }
-			@appliedOps = ["mock-applied-ops"]
+			@appliedOps = [ {v: 42, op: "mock-op-42"}, { v: 45, op: "mock-op-45" }]
 			@doc_ops_length = sinon.stub()
 			@project_ops_length = sinon.stub()
-			@DocumentManager.getDoc = sinon.stub().yields(null, @lines, @version, @ranges)
+			@pathname = '/a/b/c.tex'
+			@DocumentManager.getDoc = sinon.stub().yields(null, @lines, @version, @ranges, @pathname)
 			@RangesManager.applyUpdate = sinon.stub().yields(null, @updated_ranges)
 			@ShareJsUpdateManager.applyUpdate = sinon.stub().yields(null, @updatedDocLines, @version, @appliedOps)
 			@RedisManager.updateDocument = sinon.stub().yields(null, @doc_ops_length, @project_ops_length)
 			@RealTimeRedisManager.sendData = sinon.stub()
+			@UpdateManager._addProjectHistoryMetadataToOps = sinon.stub()
 			@HistoryManager.recordAndFlushHistoryOps = sinon.stub().callsArg(5)
 
 		describe "normally", ->
@@ -192,6 +194,11 @@ describe "UpdateManager", ->
 					.calledWith(@project_id, @doc_id, @updatedDocLines, @version, @appliedOps, @updated_ranges)
 					.should.equal true
 
+			it "shoould add metadata to the ops" , ->
+				@UpdateManager._addProjectHistoryMetadataToOps
+					.calledWith(@appliedOps, @pathname, @updatedDocLines)
+					.should.equal true
+
 			it "should push the applied ops into the history queue", ->
 				@HistoryManager.recordAndFlushHistoryOps
 					.calledWith(@project_id, @doc_id, @appliedOps, @doc_ops_length, @project_ops_length)
@@ -231,6 +238,28 @@ describe "UpdateManager", ->
 			it "should call the callback with the error", ->
 				@callback.calledWith(@error).should.equal true
 
+	describe "_addProjectHistoryMetadataToOps", ->
+		it "should add pathname and doc_length metadata to the ops", ->
+			lines = [
+				'some'
+				'test'
+				'data'
+			]
+			appliedOps = [ {v: 42, op: "mock-op-42"}, { v: 45, op: "mock-op-45" }]
+			@UpdateManager._addProjectHistoryMetadataToOps(appliedOps, @pathname, lines)
+			appliedOps.should.deep.equal [{
+				v: 42
+				op: "mock-op-42"
+				meta:
+					pathname: @pathname
+					doc_length: 14
+			}, {
+				v: 45
+				op: "mock-op-45"
+				meta:
+					pathname: @pathname
+					doc_length: 14
+			}]
 
 	describe "lockUpdatesAndDo", ->
 		beforeEach ->