diff --git a/app/code/Magento/Store/Model/HeaderProvider/XDist.php b/app/code/Magento/Store/Model/HeaderProvider/XDist.php
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3fe9d43cb073
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/code/Magento/Store/Model/HeaderProvider/XDist.php
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+<?php
+
+namespace Magento\Store\Model\HeaderProvider;
+
+use Magento\Framework\App\ProductMetadata;
+use Magento\Framework\App\Response\HeaderProvider\AbstractHeaderProvider;
+
+/**
+ * Add distribution name as a header for identification
+ */
+class XDist extends AbstractHeaderProvider
+{
+    /**
+     * @var string
+     */
+    protected $headerValue = ProductMetadata::DISTRIBUTION_NAME;
+
+    /**
+     * @var string
+     */
+    protected $headerName = 'X-Dist';
+}
diff --git a/app/code/Magento/Store/etc/di.xml b/app/code/Magento/Store/etc/di.xml
index 20a828003aa4..8ae026fffa29 100644
--- a/app/code/Magento/Store/etc/di.xml
+++ b/app/code/Magento/Store/etc/di.xml
@@ -320,6 +320,7 @@
                 <item name="HSTSHeader" xsi:type="object">Magento\Store\Model\HeaderProvider\Hsts</item>
                 <item name="upgrade-insecure-requests" xsi:type="object">Magento\Store\Model\HeaderProvider\UpgradeInsecure</item>
                 <item name="x-content-type-options" xsi:type="object">Magento\Framework\App\Response\HeaderProvider\XContentTypeOptions</item>
+                <item name="x-dist" xsi:type="object">Magento\Store\Model\HeaderProvider\XDist</item>
                 <item name="x-xss-protection" xsi:type="object">Magento\Framework\App\Response\HeaderProvider\XssProtection</item>
             </argument>
         </arguments>