diff --git a/CountItems/CountManager.js b/CountItems/CountManager.js
index 34f0fc3e..e5646f22 100644
--- a/CountItems/CountManager.js
+++ b/CountItems/CountManager.js
@@ -180,6 +180,10 @@ class CountManager {
         this.store.bucketList = this.store.bucketList.concat(transformedInfos);
         bucketInfos.forEach(bucketInfo => {
             this.q.push(bucketInfo);
+            const key = `${bucketInfo.getName()}_${new Date(bucketInfo.getCreationDate()).getTime()}`;
+            if (!this.dataMetrics.bucket[key]) {
+                this.dataMetrics.bucket[key] = consolidateDataMetrics(null, null);
+            }
         });
         this.log.debug('added work', {
             workInQueue: this.q.length(),
diff --git a/tests/unit/CountItems/CountManager.js b/tests/unit/CountItems/CountManager.js
index 53fbed41..a8e8f149 100644
--- a/tests/unit/CountItems/CountManager.js
+++ b/tests/unit/CountItems/CountManager.js
@@ -974,6 +974,51 @@ describe('CountItems::CountManager', () => {
         expect(m.q.paused).toBeTruthy();
     });
 
+    test('should pre-seed dataMetrics.bucket with zero-value entries for all buckets', () => {
+        const workers = createWorkers(1);
+        const m = new CountManager({
+            log: new DummyLogger(),
+            workers,
+            maxConcurrent: 1,
+        });
+        const bucketInfos = [
+            BucketInfo.deSerialize(stringifiedBucketMD),
+        ];
+        const bucketList = {
+            bucketCount: bucketInfos.length,
+            bucketInfos,
+        };
+        m.addWork(bucketList);
+        const expectedKey = `${bucketInfos[0].getName()}_${new Date(bucketInfos[0].getCreationDate()).getTime()}`;
+        expect(m.dataMetrics.bucket[expectedKey]).toBeDefined();
+        expect(m.dataMetrics.bucket[expectedKey].usedCapacity.current).toEqual(0n);
+        expect(m.dataMetrics.bucket[expectedKey].usedCapacity.nonCurrent).toEqual(0n);
+        expect(m.dataMetrics.bucket[expectedKey].objectCount.current).toEqual(0n);
+        expect(m.dataMetrics.bucket[expectedKey].objectCount.nonCurrent).toEqual(0n);
+        expect(m.dataMetrics.bucket[expectedKey].objectCount.deleteMarker).toEqual(0n);
+    });
+
+    test('should not overwrite existing dataMetrics.bucket entries on addWork', () => {
+        const workers = createWorkers(1);
+        const m = new CountManager({
+            log: new DummyLogger(),
+            workers,
+            maxConcurrent: 1,
+        });
+        const bucketInfo = BucketInfo.deSerialize(stringifiedBucketMD);
+        const key = `${bucketInfo.getName()}_${new Date(bucketInfo.getCreationDate()).getTime()}`;
+        m.dataMetrics.bucket[key] = {
+            usedCapacity: { current: 100n, nonCurrent: 50n },
+            objectCount: { current: 10n, nonCurrent: 5n, deleteMarker: 0n },
+        };
+        m.addWork({
+            bucketCount: 1,
+            bucketInfos: [bucketInfo],
+        });
+        expect(m.dataMetrics.bucket[key].usedCapacity.current).toEqual(100n);
+        expect(m.dataMetrics.bucket[key].objectCount.current).toEqual(10n);
+    });
+
     test('should only allow queue to be started once', done => {
         const workers = createWorkers(1);
         const m = new CountManager({