diff --git a/nexus/db-queries/src/transaction_retry.rs b/nexus/db-queries/src/transaction_retry.rs
index 558bb574c97..03e0574f524 100644
--- a/nexus/db-queries/src/transaction_retry.rs
+++ b/nexus/db-queries/src/transaction_retry.rs
@@ -7,27 +7,15 @@
 use async_bb8_diesel::AsyncConnection;
 use chrono::Utc;
 use diesel::result::Error as DieselError;
-use oximeter::{types::Sample, Metric, MetricsError, Target};
+use oximeter::{types::Sample, MetricsError};
 use rand::{thread_rng, Rng};
 use slog::{info, warn, Logger};
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 use std::time::Duration;
 
-// Identifies "which" transaction is retrying
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Target)]
-struct DatabaseTransaction {
-    name: String,
-}
-
-// Identifies that a retry has occurred, and track how long
-// the transaction took (either since starting, or since the last
-// retry failure was recorded).
-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Metric)]
-struct RetryData {
-    #[datum]
-    latency: f64,
-    attempt: u32,
-}
+oximeter::use_timeseries!("database-transaction.toml");
+use database_transaction::DatabaseTransaction;
+use database_transaction::RetryData;
 
 // Collects all transaction retry samples
 #[derive(Debug, Default, Clone)]
@@ -156,7 +144,7 @@ impl RetryHelper {
 
         let _ = self.producer.append(
             &DatabaseTransaction { name: self.name.into() },
-            &RetryData { latency, attempt },
+            &RetryData { datum: latency, attempt },
         );
 
         // This backoff is not exponential, but I'm not sure we actually want
diff --git a/oximeter/oximeter/schema/database-transaction.toml b/oximeter/oximeter/schema/database-transaction.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ce1477d6db9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/oximeter/oximeter/schema/database-transaction.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+format_version = 1
+
+[target]
+name = "database_transaction"
+description = "A named transaction run in the control plane database"
+authz_scope = "fleet"
+versions = [
+    { version = 1, fields = [ "name" ] }
+]
+
+[[metrics]]
+name = "retry_data"
+description = "Information about a retried transaction"
+units = "bytes"
+datum_type = "f64"
+versions = [
+    { added_in = 1, fields = [ "attempt" ] }
+]
+
+[fields.name]
+type = "string"
+description = "The name of the transaction"
+
+[fields.attempt]
+type = "u32"
+description = "The attempt at running the transaction"