diff --git a/meltano.yml b/meltano.yml
index c424233..f73c468 100644
--- a/meltano.yml
+++ b/meltano.yml
@@ -18,16 +18,19 @@ plugins:
         file: alphabet.csv
         keys:
         - col1
+      add_metadata_columns: false
     settings:
-      - description: Array of objects containing keys - `entity`, `file`, `keys`, `encoding` (Optional), `delimiter` (Optional), `doublequote` (Optional), `escapechar` (Optional), `quotechar` (Optional), `skipinitialspace` (Optional), `strict` (Optional)
+      - name: files
+        description: Array of objects containing keys - `entity`, `file`, `keys`, `encoding` (Optional), `delimiter` (Optional), `doublequote` (Optional), `escapechar` (Optional), `quotechar` (Optional), `skipinitialspace` (Optional), `strict` (Optional)
         kind: array
-        name: files
-      - description: Project-relative path to JSON file holding array of objects with
-          keys: `entity`, `file`, `keys`, and `encoding` (Optional).
+      - name: csv_files_definition
+        description: "Project-relative path to JSON file holding array of objects with keys: `entity`, `file`, `keys`, and `encoding` (Optional)."
         documentation: https://gitlab.com/meltano/tap-csv#run
         label: CSV Files Definition
-        name: csv_files_definition
         placeholder: Ex. files-def.json
+      - name: add_metadata_columns
+        description: Specifies whether to add the metadata columns (`_sdc_source_file`, `_sdc_source_file_mtime`, `_sdc_source_lineno`) to stream output
+        kind: boolean
   loaders:
   - name: target-jsonl
     variant: andyh1203
diff --git a/tap_csv/client.py b/tap_csv/client.py
index 0745db7..c981dcb 100644
--- a/tap_csv/client.py
+++ b/tap_csv/client.py
@@ -2,16 +2,22 @@
 
 import csv
 import os
+from datetime import datetime, timezone
 from typing import Iterable, List, Optional
 
 from singer_sdk import typing as th
 from singer_sdk.streams import Stream
 
+SDC_SOURCE_FILE_COLUMN = "_sdc_source_file"
+SDC_SOURCE_LINENO_COLUMN = "_sdc_source_lineno"
+SDC_SOURCE_FILE_MTIME_COLUMN = "_sdc_source_file_mtime"
+
 
 class CSVStream(Stream):
     """Stream class for CSV streams."""
 
     file_paths: List[str] = []
+    header: List[str] = []
 
     def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
         """Init CSVStram."""
@@ -27,12 +33,20 @@ def get_records(self, context: Optional[dict]) -> Iterable[dict]:
         require partitioning and should ignore the `context` argument.
         """
         for file_path in self.get_file_paths():
-            headers: List[str] = []
+            file_last_modified = datetime.fromtimestamp(os.path.getmtime(file_path), timezone.utc)
+
+            file_lineno = -1
+
             for row in self.get_rows(file_path):
-                if not headers:
-                    headers = row
+                file_lineno += 1
+
+                if not file_lineno:
                     continue
-                yield dict(zip(headers, row))
+
+                if self.config.get("add_metadata_columns", False):
+                    row = [file_path, file_last_modified, file_lineno] + row
+
+                yield dict(zip(self.header, row))
 
     def get_file_paths(self) -> list:
         """Return a list of file paths to read.
@@ -73,9 +87,7 @@ def is_valid_filename(self, file_path: str) -> bool:
         if file_path[-4:] != ".csv":
             is_valid = False
             self.logger.warning(f"Skipping non-csv file '{file_path}'")
-            self.logger.warning(
-                "Please provide a CSV file that ends with '.csv'; e.g. 'users.csv'"
-            )
+            self.logger.warning("Please provide a CSV file that ends with '.csv'; e.g. 'users.csv'")
         return is_valid
 
     def get_rows(self, file_path: str) -> Iterable[list]:
@@ -110,8 +122,16 @@ def schema(self) -> dict:
                 break
             break
 
+        # If enabled, add file's metadata to output
+        if self.config.get("add_metadata_columns", False):
+            header = [SDC_SOURCE_FILE_COLUMN, SDC_SOURCE_FILE_MTIME_COLUMN, SDC_SOURCE_LINENO_COLUMN] + header
+
         for column in header:
             # Set all types to string
             # TODO: Try to be smarter about inferring types.
             properties.append(th.Property(column, th.StringType()))
+
+        # Cache header for future use
+        self.header = header
+
         return th.PropertiesList(*properties).to_dict()
diff --git a/tap_csv/tap.py b/tap_csv/tap.py
index a2514e2..257d0c5 100644
--- a/tap_csv/tap.py
+++ b/tap_csv/tap.py
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ class TapCSV(Tap):
             th.StringType,
             description="A path to the JSON file holding an array of file settings.",
         ),
+        th.Property("add_metadata_columns", th.BooleanType, required=False, default=False),
     ).to_dict()
 
     @classproperty
diff --git a/tap_csv/tests/test_core.py b/tap_csv/tests/test_core.py
index 8f0b902..cc830fb 100644
--- a/tap_csv/tests/test_core.py
+++ b/tap_csv/tests/test_core.py
@@ -69,3 +69,21 @@ def test_standard_tap_tests_csv_dialect():
     tests = get_standard_tap_tests(TapCSV, config=SAMPLE_CONFIG)
     for test in tests:
         test()
+
+# Run standard built-in tap tests from the SDK, with metadata columns included:
+def test_standard_tap_tests():
+    """Run standard tap tests from the SDK, with metadata columns included"""
+    test_data_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+    SAMPLE_CONFIG = {
+        "add_metadata_columns": True,
+        "files": [
+            {
+                "entity": "test",
+                "path": f"{test_data_dir}/data/alphabet.csv",
+                "keys": [],
+            }
+        ]
+    }
+    tests = get_standard_tap_tests(TapCSV, config=SAMPLE_CONFIG)
+    for test in tests:
+        test()