diff --git a/pkg/chipingress/README.md b/pkg/chipingress/README.md
index 5c45c1a33a..c39440cab9 100644
--- a/pkg/chipingress/README.md
+++ b/pkg/chipingress/README.md
@@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ client, err := chipingress.NewClient("example.com:9090",
     chipingress.WithTracerProvider(tracerProvider))
 ```
 
+Use `chipingress.WithClientName("my_service")` to identify the client: the name is sent as the gRPC user-agent and recorded as a `client_name` attribute on the otelgrpc spans and metrics.
+
 The client uses `otelgrpc.NewClientHandler()` to automatically create spans for all gRPC calls, including metrics for request duration, message sizes, and error rates.
 
 ### Retries
diff --git a/pkg/chipingress/client.go b/pkg/chipingress/client.go
index 344981e440..1334f4fedc 100644
--- a/pkg/chipingress/client.go
+++ b/pkg/chipingress/client.go
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/google/uuid"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/google.golang.org/grpc/otelgrpc"
+	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/attribute"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace"
 	"google.golang.org/grpc"
@@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ type clientConfig struct {
 	meterProvider         metric.MeterProvider
 	tracerProvider        trace.TracerProvider
 	nopInfoHeaderProvider HeaderProvider
+	clientName            string
 	retryPolicy           *RetryPolicy
 }
 
@@ -98,6 +100,14 @@ func NewClient(address string, opts ...Opt) (Client, error) {
 		otelOpts = append(otelOpts, otelgrpc.WithTracerProvider(cfg.tracerProvider))
 	}
 
+	if cfg.clientName != "" {
+		clientNameAttr := attribute.String("client_name", cfg.clientName)
+		otelOpts = append(otelOpts,
+			otelgrpc.WithSpanAttributes(clientNameAttr),
+			otelgrpc.WithMetricAttributes(clientNameAttr),
+		)
+	}
+
 	grpcOpts := []grpc.DialOption{
 		grpc.WithTransportCredentials(cfg.transportCredentials),
 		grpc.WithStatsHandler(otelgrpc.NewClientHandler(otelOpts...)),
@@ -108,6 +118,9 @@ func NewClient(address string, opts ...Opt) (Client, error) {
 			PermitWithoutStream: true,
 		}),
 	}
+	if cfg.clientName != "" {
+		grpcOpts = append(grpcOpts, grpc.WithUserAgent(cfg.clientName))
+	}
 	// Retries are opt-in (see WithRetryPolicy): they can replay non-idempotent RPCs such as
 	// Publish, so they are disabled unless the caller enables them. The service config is built
 	// from typed structs (see retry_policy.go) rather than a hand-written JSON literal - a
@@ -264,6 +277,13 @@ func WithMeterProvider(provider metric.MeterProvider) Opt {
 	return func(c *clientConfig) { c.meterProvider = provider }
 }
 
+// WithClientName identifies this client to chip-ingress and in telemetry: it is sent as the gRPC
+// user-agent and recorded as a client_name attribute on the otelgrpc spans and metrics. An empty
+// name is a no-op.
+func WithClientName(name string) Opt {
+	return func(c *clientConfig) { c.clientName = name }
+}
+
 // WithTracerProvider sets a custom OpenTelemetry TracerProvider for distributed tracing.
 // If not set, the global tracer provider will be used.
 func WithTracerProvider(provider trace.TracerProvider) Opt {
diff --git a/pkg/chipingress/client_test.go b/pkg/chipingress/client_test.go
index a50f6f9bd8..9b90393a48 100644
--- a/pkg/chipingress/client_test.go
+++ b/pkg/chipingress/client_test.go
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"fmt"
 	"net"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
@@ -641,6 +642,40 @@ func TestOptions(t *testing.T) {
 		require.NoError(t, err)
 		assert.Equal(t, "true", headers["x-include-nop-info"])
 	})
+
+	t.Run("WithClientName", func(t *testing.T) {
+		config := defaultCfg
+		WithClientName("durable_emitter")(&config)
+		assert.Equal(t, "durable_emitter", config.clientName)
+	})
+}
+
+// WithClientName must reach the server as part of the gRPC user-agent, and an unset name must
+// leave the default user-agent untouched.
+func TestClient_ClientNameUserAgent(t *testing.T) {
+	userAgent := func(t *testing.T, opts ...Opt) string {
+		lis, err := (&net.ListenConfig{}).Listen(t.Context(), "tcp", "127.0.0.1:0")
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		defer lis.Close()
+
+		srv := gp.NewServer()
+		capture := &capturingServer{}
+		pb.RegisterChipIngressServer(srv, capture)
+		go func() { _ = srv.Serve(lis) }()
+		defer srv.Stop()
+
+		client, err := NewClient(lis.Addr().String(), append([]Opt{WithInsecureConnection()}, opts...)...)
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		defer client.Close() //nolint:errcheck
+
+		_, err = client.Ping(t.Context(), &EmptyRequest{})
+		require.NoError(t, err)
+		require.NotNil(t, capture.lastMD)
+		return strings.Join(capture.lastMD.Get("user-agent"), " ")
+	}
+
+	assert.Contains(t, userAgent(t, WithClientName("durable_emitter")), "durable_emitter")
+	assert.NotContains(t, userAgent(t, WithClientName("")), "durable_emitter")
 }
 
 func TestHeaderInterceptor(t *testing.T) {