diff --git a/lib/utapi/utilities.js b/lib/utapi/utilities.js
index 9f42c8a27f..7e53eeac87 100644
--- a/lib/utapi/utilities.js
+++ b/lib/utapi/utilities.js
@@ -331,6 +331,11 @@ function pushMetric(action, log, metricObj) {
         oldByteLength,
         numberOfObjects,
     };
+
+    if (removedDeleteMarkers) {
+        utapiObj.numberOfObjects = numberOfObjects + removedDeleteMarkers;
+    }
+
     // If `authInfo` is included by the API, get the account's canonical ID for
     // account-level metrics and the shortId for user-level metrics. Otherwise
     // check if the canonical ID is already provided for account-level metrics.
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 647425d8be..7ee15276bc 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "s3",
-  "version": "7.10.59",
+  "version": "7.10.60",
   "description": "S3 connector",
   "main": "index.js",
   "engines": {
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@
     "level-mem": "^5.0.1",
     "moment": "^2.26.0",
     "npm-run-all": "~4.1.5",
-    "utapi": "git+https://github.com/scality/utapi#7.10.20",
+    "utapi": "git+https://github.com/scality/utapi#7.10.21",
     "utf8": "~2.1.1",
     "uuid": "^3.0.1",
     "vaultclient": "scality/vaultclient#7.10.10",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index 9854bec5b4..ccc806800e 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -5325,9 +5325,9 @@ user-home@^2.0.0:
   dependencies:
     os-homedir "^1.0.0"
 
-"utapi@git+https://github.com/scality/utapi#7.10.20":
-  version "7.10.20"
-  resolved "git+https://github.com/scality/utapi#5c854c5a417194de024c29a234f11583ed76e8b0"
+"utapi@git+https://github.com/scality/utapi#7.10.21":
+  version "7.10.21"
+  resolved "git+https://github.com/scality/utapi#5f129f471d9b834ad9b1f25f9841fc2678fff950"
   dependencies:
     "@hapi/joi" "^17.1.1"
     "@senx/warp10" "^1.0.14"