diff --git a/components/dashboard/src/start/StartWorkspace.tsx b/components/dashboard/src/start/StartWorkspace.tsx
index f5e47bca0e5e13..114e2bfed3e714 100644
--- a/components/dashboard/src/start/StartWorkspace.tsx
+++ b/components/dashboard/src/start/StartWorkspace.tsx
@@ -65,6 +65,24 @@ export default class StartWorkspace extends React.Component<StartWorkspaceProps,
     this.toDispose.dispose();
   }
 
+  componentDidUpdate(prevPros: StartWorkspaceProps, prevState: StartWorkspaceState) {
+    const newPhase = this.state?.workspaceInstance?.status.phase;
+    const oldPhase = prevState.workspaceInstance?.status.phase;
+    if (newPhase !== oldPhase) {
+      getGitpodService().server.trackEvent({
+        event: "status_rendered",
+        properties: { workspaceId: this.state?.workspaceInstance?.workspaceId, "phase": newPhase },
+      });
+    }
+
+    if (!!this.state.error && this.state.error !== prevState.error) {
+      getGitpodService().server.trackEvent({
+        event: "error_rendered",
+        properties: { workspaceId: this.state?.workspaceInstance?.workspaceId, "error": this.state.error },
+      });
+    }
+  }
+
   async startWorkspace(restart = false, forceDefaultImage = false) {
     const state = this.state;
     if (state) {
diff --git a/components/server/src/workspace/workspace-starter.ts b/components/server/src/workspace/workspace-starter.ts
index 09d127f229edc1..87c048ed9c0e46 100644
--- a/components/server/src/workspace/workspace-starter.ts
+++ b/components/server/src/workspace/workspace-starter.ts
@@ -691,6 +691,7 @@ export class WorkspaceStarter {
             "function:getEnvVars",
             "function:setEnvVar",
             "function:deleteEnvVar",
+            "function:trackEvent",
 
             "resource:"+ScopedResourceGuard.marshalResourceScope({kind: "workspace", subjectID: workspace.id, operations: ["get", "update"]}),
             "resource:"+ScopedResourceGuard.marshalResourceScope({kind: "workspaceInstance", subjectID: instance.id, operations: ["get", "update", "delete"]}),
diff --git a/components/supervisor/frontend/src/index.ts b/components/supervisor/frontend/src/index.ts
index ae55e0172f77c7..08d913a0295bef 100644
--- a/components/supervisor/frontend/src/index.ts
+++ b/components/supervisor/frontend/src/index.ts
@@ -137,6 +137,15 @@ const loadingIDE = new Promise(resolve => window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoa
     ideService.onDidChange(() => {
         updateLoadingState();
         updateCurrentFrame();
+
+        window.gitpod.service.server.trackEvent({
+            event: "status_rendered",
+            properties: {
+                workspaceId: gitpodServiceClient.info.latestInstance?.workspaceId,
+                phase: `ide-${ideService.state}`,
+                error: ideService.failureCause?.message,
+            },
+        });
     });
     //#endregion