diff --git a/packages/shell-api/src/helpers.ts b/packages/shell-api/src/helpers.ts
index 6ea1aac5cd..a035446794 100644
--- a/packages/shell-api/src/helpers.ts
+++ b/packages/shell-api/src/helpers.ts
@@ -441,9 +441,10 @@ export async function getPrintableShardStatus(db: Database, verbose: boolean): P
           { $sort: { shard: 1 } }
         ])).toArray();
         let totalChunks = 0;
+        collRes.chunkMetadata = [];
         chunks.forEach((z: any) => {
           totalChunks += z.nChunks;
-          collRes.chunkMetadata = { shard: z.shard, nChunks: z.nChunks };
+          collRes.chunkMetadata.push({ shard: z.shard, nChunks: z.nChunks });
         });
 
         // NOTE: this will return the chunk info as a string, and will print ugly BSON
diff --git a/packages/shell-api/src/shard.spec.ts b/packages/shell-api/src/shard.spec.ts
index accc2aeaed..c670826688 100644
--- a/packages/shell-api/src/shard.spec.ts
+++ b/packages/shell-api/src/shard.spec.ts
@@ -1257,6 +1257,8 @@ describe('Shard', () => {
         const original = await db.coll.findOneAndUpdate({ key: 'A' }, { $set: { value: 30 } });
         expect(original.key).to.equal('A');
         expect(original.value).to.equal(10);
+
+        expect((await sh.status()).value.databases[1].collections[ns].chunkMetadata).to.have.lengthOf(1);
       });
     });
     describe('autosplit', () => {