diff --git a/dbms/src/Common/ThreadStatus.h b/dbms/src/Common/ThreadStatus.h
index 822e1931447..05994883040 100644
--- a/dbms/src/Common/ThreadStatus.h
+++ b/dbms/src/Common/ThreadStatus.h
@@ -144,6 +144,10 @@ protected:
 
     void initPerformanceCounters();
 
+    void initQueryProfiler();
+
+    void finalizeQueryProfiler();
+
     void logToQueryThreadLog(QueryThreadLog & thread_log);
 
     void assertState(const std::initializer_list<int> & permitted_states, const char * description = nullptr);
@@ -165,6 +169,9 @@ protected:
     time_t query_start_time = 0;
     size_t queries_started = 0;
 
+    bool has_query_profiler = false;
+    timer_t query_profiler_timer_id = 0;
+
     Poco::Logger * log = nullptr;
 
     friend class CurrentThread;
diff --git a/dbms/src/Interpreters/ThreadStatusExt.cpp b/dbms/src/Interpreters/ThreadStatusExt.cpp
index eac9251cdf0..ffd12572cf1 100644
--- a/dbms/src/Interpreters/ThreadStatusExt.cpp
+++ b/dbms/src/Interpreters/ThreadStatusExt.cpp
@@ -5,7 +5,12 @@
 #include <Interpreters/Context.h>
 #include <Interpreters/QueryThreadLog.h>
 #include <Interpreters/ProcessList.h>
+#include <common/logger_useful.h>
 
+#include <csignal>
+#include <time.h>
+#include <signal.h>
+#include <sys/syscall.h>
 
 /// Implement some methods of ThreadStatus and CurrentThread here to avoid extra linking dependencies in clickhouse_common_io
 namespace DB
@@ -92,6 +97,10 @@ void ThreadStatus::attachQuery(const ThreadGroupStatusPtr & thread_group_, bool
     }
 
     initPerformanceCounters();
+
+    LOG_INFO(&Logger::get("laplab"), "Attaching");
+    initQueryProfiler();
+    
     thread_state = ThreadState::AttachedToQuery;
 }
 
@@ -119,6 +128,49 @@ void ThreadStatus::finalizePerformanceCounters()
     }
 }
 
+namespace {
+    void queryProfilerTimerHandler(int /* signal */) {
+        LOG_INFO(&Logger::get("laplab"), "Hello from handler!");
+    }
+}
+
+void ThreadStatus::initQueryProfiler() {
+    sigevent sev;
+    sev.sigev_notify = SIGEV_THREAD_ID;
+    sev.sigev_signo = SIGALRM;
+    sev._sigev_un._tid = os_thread_id;
+    // TODO(laplab): get clock type from settings
+    if (timer_create(CLOCK_REALTIME, &sev, &query_profiler_timer_id)) {
+        LOG_ERROR(log, "Failed to create query profiler timer");
+        return;
+    }
+    
+    // TODO(laplab): get period from settings
+    timespec period{.tv_sec = 10, .tv_nsec = 0};
+    itimerspec timer_spec = {.it_interval = period, .it_value = period};
+    if (timer_settime(query_profiler_timer_id, 0, &timer_spec, nullptr)) {
+        LOG_ERROR(log, "Failed to set query profiler timer");
+        return;
+    }
+
+    std::signal(SIGALRM, queryProfilerTimerHandler);
+
+    has_query_profiler = true;
+}
+
+void ThreadStatus::finalizeQueryProfiler() {
+    if (!has_query_profiler) {
+        return;
+    }
+
+    if (timer_delete(query_profiler_timer_id)) {
+        LOG_ERROR(log, "Failed to delete query profiler timer");
+        return;
+    }
+
+    has_query_profiler = false;
+}
+
 void ThreadStatus::detachQuery(bool exit_if_already_detached, bool thread_exits)
 {
     if (exit_if_already_detached && thread_state == ThreadState::DetachedFromQuery)
@@ -128,6 +180,8 @@ void ThreadStatus::detachQuery(bool exit_if_already_detached, bool thread_exits)
     }
 
     assertState({ThreadState::AttachedToQuery}, __PRETTY_FUNCTION__);
+
+    finalizeQueryProfiler();
     finalizePerformanceCounters();
 
     /// Detach from thread group
@@ -140,6 +194,8 @@ void ThreadStatus::detachQuery(bool exit_if_already_detached, bool thread_exits)
     query_context = nullptr;
     thread_group.reset();
 
+    LOG_INFO(&Logger::get("laplab"), "Detaching");
+
     thread_state = thread_exits ? ThreadState::Died : ThreadState::DetachedFromQuery;
 }