diff --git a/aggregator/src/main/scala/ai/chronon/aggregator/base/SimpleAggregators.scala b/aggregator/src/main/scala/ai/chronon/aggregator/base/SimpleAggregators.scala
index ff80f02253..94ca8332e7 100644
--- a/aggregator/src/main/scala/ai/chronon/aggregator/base/SimpleAggregators.scala
+++ b/aggregator/src/main/scala/ai/chronon/aggregator/base/SimpleAggregators.scala
@@ -160,6 +160,82 @@ class Average extends SimpleAggregator[Double, Array[Any], Double] {
   override def isDeletable: Boolean = true
 }
 
+class RunningAverage extends SimpleAggregator[Double, Array[Any], Double] {
+  override def outputType: DataType = DoubleType
+
+  override def irType: DataType =
+    StructType(
+      "RunningAvgIr",
+      Array(StructField("running_average", DoubleType), StructField("weight", DoubleType))
+    )
+
+  override def prepare(input: Double): Array[Any] = Array(input, 1.0)
+
+  /**
+    * When combining averages, if the counts sizes are too close we should use a different algorithm. This
+    * constant defines how close the ratio of the smaller to the total count can be:
+    */
+  private[this] val STABILITY_CONSTANT = 0.1
+
+  /**
+    * Given two streams of doubles (left, leftWeight) and (right, rightWeight) of form (mean, weighted count), calculates
+    * the mean of the combined stream.
+    *
+    * Uses a more stable online algorithm which should be suitable for large numbers of records similar to:
+    * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_variance#Parallel_algorithm
+    */
+  private def computeRunningAverage(ir: Array[Any], right: Double, rightWeight: Double): Array[Any] = {
+    val left = ir(0).asInstanceOf[Double]
+    val leftWeight = ir(1).asInstanceOf[Double]
+    if (leftWeight < rightWeight) {
+      computeRunningAverage(Array(right, rightWeight), left, leftWeight)
+    } else {
+      val newCount = leftWeight + rightWeight
+      val newAverage = newCount match {
+        case 0.0                                => 0.0
+        case newCount if newCount == leftWeight => left
+        case newCount =>
+          val scaling = rightWeight / newCount
+          if (scaling < STABILITY_CONSTANT) {
+            left + (right - left) * scaling
+          } else {
+            (leftWeight * left + rightWeight * right) / newCount
+          }
+      }
+
+      ir.update(0, newAverage)
+      ir.update(1, newCount)
+      ir
+    }
+  }
+
+  // mutating
+  override def update(ir: Array[Any], input: Double): Array[Any] = {
+    computeRunningAverage(ir, input, 1.0)
+  }
+
+  // mutating
+  override def merge(ir1: Array[Any], ir2: Array[Any]): Array[Any] = {
+    computeRunningAverage(ir1, ir2(0).asInstanceOf[Double], ir2(1).asInstanceOf[Double])
+  }
+
+  override def finalize(ir: Array[Any]): Double =
+    ir(0).asInstanceOf[Double]
+
+  // mutating
+  override def delete(ir: Array[Any], input: Double): Array[Any] = {
+    computeRunningAverage(ir, input, -1.0)
+  }
+
+  override def clone(ir: Array[Any]): Array[Any] = {
+    val arr = new Array[Any](ir.length)
+    ir.copyToArray(arr)
+    arr
+  }
+
+  override def isDeletable: Boolean = true
+}
+
 // Welford algo for computing variance
 // Traditional sum of squares based formula has serious numerical stability problems
 class WelfordState(ir: Array[Any]) {
diff --git a/aggregator/src/main/scala/ai/chronon/aggregator/row/ColumnAggregator.scala b/aggregator/src/main/scala/ai/chronon/aggregator/row/ColumnAggregator.scala
index dc335537ee..43575122f1 100644
--- a/aggregator/src/main/scala/ai/chronon/aggregator/row/ColumnAggregator.scala
+++ b/aggregator/src/main/scala/ai/chronon/aggregator/row/ColumnAggregator.scala
@@ -355,6 +355,16 @@ object ColumnAggregator {
           case _          => mismatchException
         }
 
+      case Operation.RUNNING_AVERAGE =>
+        inputType match {
+          case IntType    => simple(new RunningAverage, toDouble[Int])
+          case LongType   => simple(new RunningAverage, toDouble[Long])
+          case ShortType  => simple(new RunningAverage, toDouble[Short])
+          case DoubleType => simple(new RunningAverage)
+          case FloatType  => simple(new RunningAverage, toDouble[Float])
+          case _          => mismatchException
+        }
+
       case Operation.VARIANCE =>
         inputType match {
           case IntType    => simple(new Variance, toDouble[Int])
diff --git a/aggregator/src/test/scala/ai/chronon/aggregator/test/RowAggregatorTest.scala b/aggregator/src/test/scala/ai/chronon/aggregator/test/RowAggregatorTest.scala
index ebc67839fb..7afa9a51ff 100644
--- a/aggregator/src/test/scala/ai/chronon/aggregator/test/RowAggregatorTest.scala
+++ b/aggregator/src/test/scala/ai/chronon/aggregator/test/RowAggregatorTest.scala
@@ -109,7 +109,12 @@ class RowAggregatorTest extends TestCase {
       Builders.AggregationPart(Operation.HISTOGRAM, "hist_input", argMap = Map("k" -> "2")) -> histogram,
       Builders.AggregationPart(Operation.AVERAGE, "hist_map") -> mapAvg,
       Builders.AggregationPart(Operation.SUM, "embeddings", elementWise = true) -> List(12.0, 14.0).toJava,
-      Builders.AggregationPart(Operation.AVERAGE, "embeddings", elementWise = true) -> List(6.0, 7.0).toJava
+      Builders.AggregationPart(Operation.AVERAGE, "embeddings", elementWise = true) -> List(6.0, 7.0).toJava,
+      Builders.AggregationPart(Operation.RUNNING_AVERAGE, "views") -> 19.0 / 3,
+      Builders.AggregationPart(Operation.RUNNING_AVERAGE, "session_lengths") -> 8.0,
+      Builders.AggregationPart(Operation.RUNNING_AVERAGE, "session_lengths", bucket = "title") -> sessionLengthAvgByTitle,
+      Builders.AggregationPart(Operation.RUNNING_AVERAGE, "hist_map") -> mapAvg,
+      Builders.AggregationPart(Operation.RUNNING_AVERAGE, "embeddings", elementWise = true) -> List(6.0, 7.0).toJava
     )
 
     val (specs, expectedVals) = specsAndExpected.unzip
@@ -142,7 +147,10 @@ class RowAggregatorTest extends TestCase {
     val finalized = rowAggregator.finalize(forDeletion)
 
     expectedVals.zip(finalized).zip(rowAggregator.outputSchema.map(_._1)).foreach {
-      case ((expected, actual), name) => assertEquals(expected, actual)
+      case ((expected: Double, actual: Double), _) =>
+        assertEquals(expected, actual, 1e-9)
+      case ((expected, actual), name) =>
+        assertEquals(expected, actual)
     }
   }
 }
diff --git a/api/py/ai/chronon/group_by.py b/api/py/ai/chronon/group_by.py
index de76fb6edc..63e2679248 100644
--- a/api/py/ai/chronon/group_by.py
+++ b/api/py/ai/chronon/group_by.py
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ class Operation:
     COUNT = ttypes.Operation.COUNT
     SUM = ttypes.Operation.SUM
     AVERAGE = ttypes.Operation.AVERAGE
+    RUNNING_AVERAGE = ttypes.Operation.RUNNING_AVERAGE
     VARIANCE = ttypes.Operation.VARIANCE
     SKEW = ttypes.Operation.SKEW
     KURTOSIS = ttypes.Operation.KURTOSIS
diff --git a/api/thrift/api.thrift b/api/thrift/api.thrift
index 1e48f624fc..fbd554ab60 100644
--- a/api/thrift/api.thrift
+++ b/api/thrift/api.thrift
@@ -182,6 +182,7 @@ enum Operation {
     HISTOGRAM = 17, // use this only if you know the set of inputs is bounded
     APPROX_HISTOGRAM_K = 18,
     BOUNDED_UNIQUE_COUNT = 19
+    RUNNING_AVERAGE = 20
 }
 
 // integers map to milliseconds in the timeunit