diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bc85a0e6e43e7467664d927ef5fdac5ccf0ed229..4d15fa3c6b65b97aa3c22e7a333a7653093ecc98 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -200,6 +200,16 @@ your system.
 ./configure --with-perl --with-python --with-libxml ---enable-mapreduce --enable-codegen --prefix=/usr/local/gpdb --with-codegen-prefix="/path/to/llvm;/path/to/clang"
 ```
 
+### Build GPDB with gpperfmon enabled
+
+gpperfmon tracks a variety of queries, statistics, system properties, and metrics.
+To build with it enabled, change your `configure` to have an additional option
+`--enable-gpperfmon`
+
+See [more information about gpperfmon here](gpAux/gpperfmon/README.md)
+
+gpperfmon is dependent on several libraries like apr, apu, and libsigar
+
 ## Regression tests
 
 * The default regression tests
diff --git a/concourse/pipelines/pr_pipeline.yml b/concourse/pipelines/pr_pipeline.yml
index 5573c4b74e9700fc8a20c50352282457e27305a6..e71a36911eafea04a4c3a4d9b4dbe6be443243a3 100644
--- a/concourse/pipelines/pr_pipeline.yml
+++ b/concourse/pipelines/pr_pipeline.yml
@@ -114,6 +114,18 @@ jobs:
         timeout: 10m
         on_failure: *pr_failure
 
+      - task: gpperfmon
+        file: gpdb_pr/concourse/tasks/behave_gpdb.yml
+        image: centos-gpdb-dev-6
+        input_mapping:
+          gpdb_src: gpdb_pr
+          bin_gpdb: gpdb_artifacts
+        params:
+          BEHAVE_TAGS: gpperfmon
+          BLDWRAP_POSTGRES_CONF_ADDONS: ""
+        timeout: 20m
+        on_failure: *pr_failure
+
     - task: separate_qautils_files_for_rc
       file: gpdb_pr/concourse/tasks/separate_qautils_files_for_rc.yml
       image: centos-gpdb-dev-6