diff --git a/sdks/java/testing/tpcds/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/tpcds/SqlTransformRunner.java b/sdks/java/testing/tpcds/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/tpcds/SqlTransformRunner.java
index 6570b7fe81b2..1550a25b7c8f 100644
--- a/sdks/java/testing/tpcds/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/tpcds/SqlTransformRunner.java
+++ b/sdks/java/testing/tpcds/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/tpcds/SqlTransformRunner.java
@@ -39,12 +39,16 @@
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.extensions.sql.meta.provider.text.TextTable;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.io.TextIO;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.io.parquet.ParquetIO;
+import org.apache.beam.sdk.metrics.Counter;
+import org.apache.beam.sdk.metrics.Metrics;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptionsFactory;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.schemas.Schema;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.schemas.SchemaCoder;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.testutils.publishing.InfluxDBPublisher;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.testutils.publishing.InfluxDBSettings;
+import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.DoFn;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.MapElements;
+import org.apache.beam.sdk.transforms.ParDo;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.PCollection;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.PCollectionTuple;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.values.Row;
@@ -81,6 +85,9 @@ public class SqlTransformRunner {
 
   private static final Logger LOG = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SqlTransformRunner.class);
 
+  static final String METRICS_NAMESPACE = "tpcds";
+  static final String OUTPUT_COUNTER = "output_rows";
+
   /** This class is used to extract all SQL query identifiers. */
   static class SqlIdentifierVisitor extends SqlBasicVisitor<Void> {
     private final Set<String> identifiers = new HashSet<>();
@@ -305,6 +312,7 @@ public static void runUsingSqlTransform(String[] args) throws Exception {
         tables
             .apply(SqlTransform.query(queryString))
             .apply(MapElements.into(TypeDescriptors.strings()).via(Row::toString))
+            .apply(ParDo.of(new CounterDoFn()))
             .apply(
                 TextIO.write()
                     .to(
@@ -396,4 +404,14 @@ private static InfluxDBSettings getInfluxSettings(final TpcdsOptions options) {
         .withRetentionPolicy(options.getInfluxRetentionPolicy())
         .get();
   }
+
+  private static class CounterDoFn extends DoFn<String, String> {
+    private final Counter counter = Metrics.counter(METRICS_NAMESPACE, OUTPUT_COUNTER);
+
+    @ProcessElement
+    public void processElement(ProcessContext context) {
+      counter.inc();
+      context.output(context.element());
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/sdks/java/testing/tpcds/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/tpcds/TpcdsRun.java b/sdks/java/testing/tpcds/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/tpcds/TpcdsRun.java
index b6235db1c123..700de369b609 100644
--- a/sdks/java/testing/tpcds/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/tpcds/TpcdsRun.java
+++ b/sdks/java/testing/tpcds/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/sdk/tpcds/TpcdsRun.java
@@ -17,10 +17,17 @@
  */
 package org.apache.beam.sdk.tpcds;
 
+import static org.apache.beam.sdk.tpcds.SqlTransformRunner.METRICS_NAMESPACE;
+import static org.apache.beam.sdk.tpcds.SqlTransformRunner.OUTPUT_COUNTER;
+
 import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.Pipeline;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.PipelineResult;
 import org.apache.beam.sdk.PipelineResult.State;
+import org.apache.beam.sdk.metrics.MetricNameFilter;
+import org.apache.beam.sdk.metrics.MetricQueryResults;
+import org.apache.beam.sdk.metrics.MetricResult;
+import org.apache.beam.sdk.metrics.MetricsFilter;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -48,6 +55,35 @@ public TpcdsRunResult call() {
       // Make sure to set the job status to be successful only when pipelineResult's final state is
       // DONE.
       boolean isSuccessful = state == State.DONE;
+
+      // Check a number of output records - it MUST be greater than 0.
+      if (isSuccessful) {
+        long outputRecords = 0;
+        MetricQueryResults metrics =
+            pipelineResult
+                .metrics()
+                .queryMetrics(
+                    MetricsFilter.builder()
+                        .addNameFilter(MetricNameFilter.named(METRICS_NAMESPACE, OUTPUT_COUNTER))
+                        .build());
+        if (metrics.getCounters().iterator().hasNext()) {
+          // Despite it's iterable, it should contain only one entry
+          MetricResult<Long> metricResult = metrics.getCounters().iterator().next();
+          if (metricResult.getAttempted() != null && metricResult.getAttempted() > 0) {
+            outputRecords = metricResult.getAttempted();
+          }
+        }
+
+        // It's expected a "greater than zero" number of output records for successful jobs.
+        if (outputRecords <= 0) {
+          LOG.warn(
+              "Output records counter for job \"{}\" is {}",
+              pipeline.getOptions().getJobName(),
+              outputRecords);
+          isSuccessful = false;
+        }
+      }
+
       tpcdsRunResult =
           new TpcdsRunResult(
               isSuccessful, startTimeStamp, endTimeStamp, pipeline.getOptions(), pipelineResult);