diff --git a/nipype/interfaces/base/core.py b/nipype/interfaces/base/core.py
index 31ae82be52..f202864bf9 100644
--- a/nipype/interfaces/base/core.py
+++ b/nipype/interfaces/base/core.py
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 import simplejson as json
 from dateutil.parser import parse as parseutc
 
+from ...utils.telemetry import prepare_execution_stats, submit_telemetry
 from ... import config, logging, LooseVersion
 from ...utils.provenance import write_provenance
 from ...utils.misc import trim, str2bool, rgetcwd
@@ -583,6 +584,13 @@ def run(self, cwd=None, ignore_exception=None, **inputs):
                         'rss_GiB': (vals[:, 2] / 1024).tolist(),
                         'vms_GiB': (vals[:, 3] / 1024).tolist(),
                     }
+
+                    runtime.interface_class_name = '{}.{}'.format(self.__module__,
+                                                                  self.__class__.__name__)
+                    if config.getboolean('monitoring', 'telemetry'):
+                        # it only makes sense to send execution stats if profiler is enabled
+                        payload = prepare_execution_stats(results)
+                        submit_telemetry(payload)
             os.chdir(syscwd)
 
         return results
diff --git a/nipype/utils/config.py b/nipype/utils/config.py
index e4e518960c..caf76268ef 100644
--- a/nipype/utils/config.py
+++ b/nipype/utils/config.py
@@ -71,6 +71,7 @@
 
 [monitoring]
 enabled = false
+telemetry = false
 sample_frequency = 1
 summary_append = true
 
diff --git a/nipype/utils/misc.py b/nipype/utils/misc.py
index f73443b348..dc0ed0405f 100644
--- a/nipype/utils/misc.py
+++ b/nipype/utils/misc.py
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 import numpy as np
 from future.utils import raise_from
 from future import standard_library
+
 try:
     from textwrap import indent as textwrap_indent
 except ImportError:
diff --git a/nipype/utils/telemetry.py b/nipype/utils/telemetry.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6ef17faad4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nipype/utils/telemetry.py
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+import os
+import collections
+import requests
+import nibabel as nb
+from json import dumps
+
+from .filemanip import split_filename
+
+def submit_telemetry(payload):
+    headers = {'Authorization': '<secret_token>', "Content-Type": "application/json"}
+    webapi_url = "http://127.0.0.1/api/v1/nipype_telemetry"
+
+    response = requests.post(webapi_url, headers=headers, data=dumps(payload))
+
+
+def prepare_execution_stats(interface_results):
+    payload = {}
+    payload['interface_class_name'] = str(interface_results.runtime.interface_class_name)
+    payload['version'] = str(interface_results.runtime.version)
+    payload['duration_sec'] = float(interface_results.runtime.duration)
+    payload['mem_peak_gb'] = float(interface_results.runtime.mem_peak_gb)
+    payload['inputs'] = extract_meta_from_filenames(interface_results.inputs)
+    print(dumps(payload))
+    return payload
+
+
+def extract_meta_from_filenames(inputs_dict):
+
+    def parse_item(item):
+        if isinstance(item, str) and os.path.exists(item) and os.path.isfile(item):
+            try:
+                nii = nb.load(item)
+            except nb.filebasedimages.ImageFileError:
+                return item
+            stat_dict = {}
+            stat_dict['shape'] = list(nii.shape)
+            stat_dict['dtype'] = str(nii.get_data_dtype())
+            statinfo = os.stat(item)
+            stat_dict['st_size'] = statinfo.st_size
+            _, _, stat_dict['ext'] = split_filename(item)
+            return stat_dict
+        else:
+            return item
+
+    def crawl_dict(d, u):
+        for k, v in u.items():
+            if isinstance(v, collections.Mapping):
+                d[k] = crawl_dict({}, v)
+            elif isinstance(v, list):
+                d[k] = crawl_list([], v)
+            else:
+                d[k] = parse_item(v)
+        return d
+
+    def crawl_list(l, u):
+        for v in u:
+            if isinstance(v, list):
+                l.append(crawl_list([], v))
+            elif isinstance(v, collections.Mapping):
+                l.append(crawl_dict({}, v))
+            else:
+                l.append(parse_item(v))
+        return l
+
+    return crawl_dict({}, inputs_dict)