diff --git a/consensus/src/counters.rs b/consensus/src/counters.rs
index e9a5bbe4250..31c75ee4b67 100644
--- a/consensus/src/counters.rs
+++ b/consensus/src/counters.rs
@@ -405,12 +405,13 @@ pub static CONSENSUS_PROPOSAL_PENDING_DURATION: Lazy<DurationHistogram> = Lazy::
     )
 });
 
-/// Amount of time (in seconds) proposal is delayed due to backpressure/backoff
 pub static PROPOSER_DELAY_PROPOSAL: Lazy<Histogram> = Lazy::new(|| {
-    register_avg_counter(
-        "aptos_proposer_delay_proposal",
+    register_histogram!(
+        "aptos_proposer_delay_proposal_seconds",
         "Amount of time (in seconds) proposal is delayed due to backpressure/backoff",
+        vec![0.001, 0.005, 0.01, 0.025, 0.05, 0.1, 0.25, 0.5, 1.0, 2.5, 5.0]
     )
+    .unwrap()
 });
 
 /// Histogram for max number of transactions (after filtering for dedup, expirations, etc) proposer uses when creating block.
diff --git a/dashboards/end-to-end-txn-latency.json b/dashboards/end-to-end-txn-latency.json
index 908af32a1ef..8a3ef50658a 100644
--- a/dashboards/end-to-end-txn-latency.json
+++ b/dashboards/end-to-end-txn-latency.json
@@ -705,7 +705,7 @@
         {
           "datasource": { "type": "prometheus", "uid": "${Datasource}" },
           "editorMode": "code",
-          "expr": "aptos_proposer_delay_proposal{chain_name=~\"$chain_name\", cluster=~\"$cluster\", metrics_source=~\"$metrics_source\", namespace=~\"$namespace\", kubernetes_pod_name=~\"$kubernetes_pod_name\", role=~\"$role\"} > 0",
+          "expr": "aptos_proposer_delay_proposal_seconds{chain_name=~\"$chain_name\", cluster=~\"$cluster\", metrics_source=~\"$metrics_source\", namespace=~\"$namespace\", kubernetes_pod_name=~\"$kubernetes_pod_name\", role=~\"$role\"} > 0",
           "format": "time_series",
           "intervalFactor": 1,
           "legendFormat": "__auto",