diff --git a/src/detect-engine-register.c b/src/detect-engine-register.c
index f421dccacea2..f9b725053636 100644
--- a/src/detect-engine-register.c
+++ b/src/detect-engine-register.c
@@ -522,6 +522,7 @@ void SigTableSetup(void)
     DetectTlsSerialRegister();
     DetectTlsFingerprintRegister();
     DetectTlsCertsRegister();
+    DetectTlsCertChainLenRegister();
     DetectTlsRandomRegister();
 
     DetectTlsJa3HashRegister();
diff --git a/src/detect-engine-register.h b/src/detect-engine-register.h
index f5b72f15b811..9ad74d721aaa 100644
--- a/src/detect-engine-register.h
+++ b/src/detect-engine-register.h
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ enum DetectKeywordId {
     DETECT_AL_TLS_VALID,
     DETECT_AL_TLS_FINGERPRINT,
     DETECT_AL_TLS_STORE,
+    DETECT_AL_TLS_CHAIN_LEN,
 
     DETECT_AL_HTTP_COOKIE,
     DETECT_HTTP_COOKIE,
diff --git a/src/detect-tls-certs.c b/src/detect-tls-certs.c
index d238fc4d54bf..28b0f82ccab9 100644
--- a/src/detect-tls-certs.c
+++ b/src/detect-tls-certs.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 2019 Open Information Security Foundation
+/* Copyright (C) 2019-2022 Open Information Security Foundation
  *
  * You can copy, redistribute or modify this Program under the terms of
  * the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
 #include "detect-content.h"
 #include "detect-pcre.h"
 #include "detect-tls-certs.h"
+#include "detect-engine-uint.h"
 
 #include "flow.h"
 #include "flow-util.h"
@@ -247,6 +248,113 @@ static int PrefilterMpmTlsCertsRegister(DetectEngineCtx *de_ctx,
             pectx, PrefilterMpmTlsCertsFree, mpm_reg->name);
 }
 
+static int g_tls_cert_buffer_id = 0;
+#define BUFFER_NAME  "tls_validity"
+#define KEYWORD_ID   DETECT_AL_TLS_CHAIN_LEN
+#define KEYWORD_NAME "tls.cert_chain_len"
+#define KEYWORD_DESC "match TLS certificate chain length"
+#define KEYWORD_URL  "/rules/tls-keywords.html#tls-cert-chain-len"
+
+/**
+ * \internal
+ * \brief Function to match cert chain length in TLS
+ *
+ * \param t       Pointer to thread vars.
+ * \param det_ctx Pointer to the pattern matcher thread.
+ * \param f       Pointer to the current flow.
+ * \param flags   Flags.
+ * \param state   App layer state.
+ * \param s       Pointer to the Signature.
+ * \param m       Pointer to the sigmatch that we will cast into
+ *                DetectU64Data.
+ *
+ * \retval 0 no match.
+ * \retval 1 match.
+ */
+static int DetectTLSCertChainLenMatch(DetectEngineThreadCtx *det_ctx, Flow *f, uint8_t flags,
+        void *state, void *txv, const Signature *s, const SigMatchCtx *ctx)
+{
+    SCEnter();
+
+    SSLState *ssl_state = state;
+    if (flags & STREAM_TOCLIENT) {
+        SSLStateConnp *connp = &ssl_state->server_connp;
+        uint32_t cnt = 0;
+        SSLCertsChain *cert;
+        TAILQ_FOREACH (cert, &connp->certs, next) {
+            cnt++;
+        }
+        SCLogDebug("%u certs in chain", cnt);
+
+        const DetectU32Data *dd = (const DetectU32Data *)ctx;
+        if (DetectU32Match(cnt, dd)) {
+            SCReturnInt(1);
+        }
+    }
+    SCReturnInt(0);
+}
+
+/**
+ * \internal
+ * \brief Function to free memory associated with DetectU64Data.
+ *
+ * \param de_ptr Pointer to DetectU64Data.
+ */
+static void DetectTLSCertChainLenFree(DetectEngineCtx *de_ctx, void *ptr)
+{
+    rs_detect_u32_free(ptr);
+}
+
+/**
+ * \brief Function to add the parsed tls cert chain len field into the current signature.
+ *
+ * \param de_ctx Pointer to the Detection Engine Context.
+ * \param s      Pointer to the Current Signature.
+ * \param rawstr Pointer to the user provided flags options.
+ * \param type   Defines if this is notBefore or notAfter.
+ *
+ * \retval 0 on Success.
+ * \retval -1 on Failure.
+ */
+static int DetectTLSCertChainLenSetup(DetectEngineCtx *de_ctx, Signature *s, const char *rawstr)
+{
+    if (DetectSignatureSetAppProto(s, ALPROTO_TLS) != 0)
+        return -1;
+
+    DetectU32Data *dd = DetectU32Parse(rawstr);
+    if (dd == NULL) {
+        SCLogError(SC_ERR_INVALID_ARGUMENT, "Parsing \'%s\' failed for %s", rawstr,
+                sigmatch_table[KEYWORD_ID].name);
+        return -1;
+    }
+
+    SigMatch *sm = SigMatchAlloc();
+    if (sm == NULL) {
+        rs_detect_u32_free(dd);
+        return -1;
+    }
+    sm->type = KEYWORD_ID;
+    sm->ctx = (void *)dd;
+
+    SigMatchAppendSMToList(s, sm, g_tls_cert_buffer_id);
+    return 0;
+}
+
+void DetectTlsCertChainLenRegister(void)
+{
+    sigmatch_table[KEYWORD_ID].name = KEYWORD_NAME;
+    sigmatch_table[KEYWORD_ID].desc = KEYWORD_DESC;
+    sigmatch_table[KEYWORD_ID].url = KEYWORD_URL;
+    sigmatch_table[KEYWORD_ID].AppLayerTxMatch = DetectTLSCertChainLenMatch;
+    sigmatch_table[KEYWORD_ID].Setup = DetectTLSCertChainLenSetup;
+    sigmatch_table[KEYWORD_ID].Free = DetectTLSCertChainLenFree;
+
+    DetectAppLayerInspectEngineRegister2(BUFFER_NAME, ALPROTO_TLS, SIG_FLAG_TOCLIENT,
+            TLS_STATE_CERT_READY, DetectEngineInspectGenericList, NULL);
+
+    g_tls_cert_buffer_id = DetectBufferTypeGetByName(BUFFER_NAME);
+}
+
 #ifdef UNITTESTS
 #include "tests/detect-tls-certs.c"
 #endif
diff --git a/src/detect-tls-certs.h b/src/detect-tls-certs.h
index 2ef88065f043..1dde64ddd727 100644
--- a/src/detect-tls-certs.h
+++ b/src/detect-tls-certs.h
@@ -25,5 +25,6 @@
 #define __DETECT_TLS_CERTS_H__
 
 void DetectTlsCertsRegister(void);
+void DetectTlsCertChainLenRegister(void);
 
 #endif /* __DETECT_TLS_CERTS_H__ */