diff --git a/flow/activities/flowable.go b/flow/activities/flowable.go
index bd460e9661..6b71e6b907 100644
--- a/flow/activities/flowable.go
+++ b/flow/activities/flowable.go
@@ -500,7 +500,7 @@ func (a *FlowableActivity) replicateQRepPartition(ctx context.Context,
 	partition *protos.QRepPartition,
 	runUUID string,
 ) error {
-	err := a.CatalogMirrorMonitor.UpdateStartTimeForPartition(ctx, runUUID, partition)
+	err := a.CatalogMirrorMonitor.UpdateStartTimeForPartition(ctx, runUUID, partition, time.Now())
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("failed to update start time for partition: %w", err)
 	}
@@ -847,11 +847,7 @@ func (a *FlowableActivity) ReplicateXminPartition(ctx context.Context,
 	partition *protos.QRepPartition,
 	runUUID string,
 ) (int64, error) {
-	err := a.CatalogMirrorMonitor.UpdateStartTimeForPartition(ctx, runUUID, partition)
-	if err != nil {
-		return 0, fmt.Errorf("failed to update start time for partition: %w", err)
-	}
-
+	startTime := time.Now()
 	srcConn, err := connectors.GetQRepPullConnector(ctx, config.SourcePeer)
 	if err != nil {
 		return 0, fmt.Errorf("failed to get qrep source connector: %w", err)
@@ -885,11 +881,36 @@ func (a *FlowableActivity) ReplicateXminPartition(ctx context.Context,
 			}).Errorf("failed to pull records: %v", err)
 			return err
 		}
+
+		// The first sync of an XMIN mirror will have a partition without a range
+		// A nil range is not supported by the catalog mirror monitor functions below
+		// So I'm creating a partition with a range of 0 to numRecords
+		partitionForMetrics := partition
+		if partition.Range == nil {
+			partitionForMetrics = &protos.QRepPartition{
+				PartitionId: partition.PartitionId,
+				Range: &protos.PartitionRange{
+					Range: &protos.PartitionRange_IntRange{
+						IntRange: &protos.IntPartitionRange{Start: 0, End: int64(numRecords)},
+					}},
+			}
+		}
+		updateErr := a.CatalogMirrorMonitor.InitializeQRepRun(ctx, config, runUUID, []*protos.QRepPartition{partitionForMetrics})
+		if updateErr != nil {
+			return updateErr
+		}
+
+		err := a.CatalogMirrorMonitor.UpdateStartTimeForPartition(ctx, runUUID, partition, startTime)
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to update start time for partition: %w", err)
+		}
+
 		err = a.CatalogMirrorMonitor.UpdatePullEndTimeAndRowsForPartition(errCtx, runUUID, partition, int64(numRecords))
 		if err != nil {
 			log.Errorf("%v", err)
 			return err
 		}
+
 		return nil
 	})
 
diff --git a/flow/connectors/utils/monitoring/monitoring.go b/flow/connectors/utils/monitoring/monitoring.go
index ed63d30f74..1502d04a0f 100644
--- a/flow/connectors/utils/monitoring/monitoring.go
+++ b/flow/connectors/utils/monitoring/monitoring.go
@@ -306,13 +306,14 @@ func (c *CatalogMirrorMonitor) UpdateStartTimeForPartition(
 	ctx context.Context,
 	runUUID string,
 	partition *protos.QRepPartition,
+	startTime time.Time,
 ) error {
 	if c == nil || c.catalogConn == nil {
 		return nil
 	}
 
 	_, err := c.catalogConn.Exec(ctx, `UPDATE peerdb_stats.qrep_partitions SET start_time=$1
-	 WHERE run_uuid=$2 AND partition_uuid=$3`, time.Now(), runUUID, partition.PartitionId)
+	 WHERE run_uuid=$2 AND partition_uuid=$3`, startTime, runUUID, partition.PartitionId)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("error while updating qrep partition in qrep_partitions: %w", err)
 	}
diff --git a/ui/app/mirrors/status/qrep/[mirrorId]/page.tsx b/ui/app/mirrors/status/qrep/[mirrorId]/page.tsx
index a3fed7e0e9..1f616421a9 100644
--- a/ui/app/mirrors/status/qrep/[mirrorId]/page.tsx
+++ b/ui/app/mirrors/status/qrep/[mirrorId]/page.tsx
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@ export default async function QRepMirrorStatus({
       start_time: {
         not: null,
       },
+      rows_in_partition: {
+        not: 0,
+      },
     },
     orderBy: {
       start_time: 'desc',