diff --git a/devices/aliceHLTwrapper/Component.cxx b/devices/aliceHLTwrapper/Component.cxx
index be1172be55c4a..eb9b2999eed66 100644
--- a/devices/aliceHLTwrapper/Component.cxx
+++ b/devices/aliceHLTwrapper/Component.cxx
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ int Component::init(int argc, char** argv)
     {"run",         required_argument, 0, 'r'},
     {"msgsize",     required_argument, 0, 's'},
     {"output-mode", required_argument, 0, 'm'},
+    {"instance-id", required_argument, 0, 'i'},
     {0, 0, 0, 0}
   };
 
@@ -69,13 +70,14 @@ int Component::init(int argc, char** argv)
   const char* componentLibrary = "";
   const char* componentId = "";
   const char* componentParameter = "";
+  const char* instanceId="";
 
   // the configuration and calibration is fixed for every run and identified
   // by the run no
   int runNumber = 0;
 
   optind = 1; // indicate new start of scanning, especially when getop has been used in a higher layer already
-  while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "l:c:p:r:s:m:", programOptions, &iOption)) != -1) {
+  while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "l:c:p:r:s:m:i:", programOptions, &iOption)) != -1) {
     switch (c) {
       case 'l':
         componentLibrary = optarg;
@@ -99,6 +101,10 @@ int Component::init(int argc, char** argv)
         std::stringstream(optarg) >> outputMode;
         mFormatHandler.setOutputMode(outputMode);
       } break;
+      case 'i': {
+        instanceId=optarg;
+        break;
+      }
       case '?':
         // TODO: more error handling
         break;
@@ -143,7 +149,9 @@ int Component::init(int argc, char** argv)
   }
 
   // create component
-  if ((iResult=mpSystem->createComponent(componentId, NULL, parameters.size(), &parameters[0], &mProcessor, ""))<0) {
+  string description;
+  description+=" chainid="; description+=instanceId;
+  if ((iResult=mpSystem->createComponent(componentId, NULL, parameters.size(), &parameters[0], &mProcessor, description.c_str()))<0) {
     // the ALICE HLT external interface uses the following error definition
     // 0 success
     // >0 error number
diff --git a/devices/aliceHLTwrapper/Component.h b/devices/aliceHLTwrapper/Component.h
index 726c30389a675..d28b39541eb7a 100644
--- a/devices/aliceHLTwrapper/Component.h
+++ b/devices/aliceHLTwrapper/Component.h
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@ class Component {
   /// list.
   int process(vector<AliceO2::AliceHLT::MessageFormat::BufferDesc_t>& dataArray);
 
+  int getEventCount() const {return mEventCount;}
+
 protected:
 
 private:
diff --git a/devices/aliceHLTwrapper/WrapperDevice.cxx b/devices/aliceHLTwrapper/WrapperDevice.cxx
index ebe8e902174f8..1a00f291e1f72 100644
--- a/devices/aliceHLTwrapper/WrapperDevice.cxx
+++ b/devices/aliceHLTwrapper/WrapperDevice.cxx
@@ -70,7 +70,16 @@ void WrapperDevice::Init()
   std::unique_ptr<Component> component(new ALICE::HLT::Component);
   if (!component.get()) return /*-ENOMEM*/;
 
-  if ((iResult=component->init(mArgv.size(), &mArgv[0]))<0) {
+  string idkey="--instance-id";
+  string id="";
+  id=GetProperty(FairMQDevice::Id, id);
+  vector<char*> argv;
+  argv.push_back(mArgv[0]);
+  argv.push_back(&idkey[0]);
+  argv.push_back(&id[0]);
+  if (mArgv.size()>1)
+    argv.insert(argv.end(), mArgv.begin()+1, mArgv.end());
+  if ((iResult=component->init(argv.size(), &argv[0]))<0) {
     LOG(ERROR) << "component init failed with error code " << iResult;
     throw std::runtime_error("component init failed");
     return /*iResult*/;
@@ -174,7 +183,8 @@ void WrapperDevice::Run()
     }
     mLastSampleTime=duration.count();
     if (duration.count()-mLastCalcTime>fLogIntervalInMs) {
-      LOG(INFO) << "------ processed  " << mNSamples << " sample(s) ";
+      LOG(INFO) << "------ processed  " << mNSamples << " sample(s) - total " 
+		<< mComponent->getEventCount() << " sample(s)";
       if (mNSamples > 0) {
         LOG(INFO) << "------ min  " << mMinTimeBetweenSample << "ms, max " << mMaxTimeBetweenSample << "ms avrg "
                   << (duration.count() - mLastCalcTime) / mNSamples << "ms ";