Other implementations of Rx have a hasObservers method on Subject. It would be nice to have this in RxJava. RxJS: https://github.com/Reactive-Extensions/RxJS/blob/master/doc/api/subjects/subject.md#rxsubjectprototypehasobservers Rx.NET https://rx.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#Rx.NET/Source/System.Reactive.Linq/Reactive/Subjects/Subject.cs