diff --git a/core/cmd/shell.go b/core/cmd/shell.go
index 966fa1a0ff8..829ed9d55ce 100644
--- a/core/cmd/shell.go
+++ b/core/cmd/shell.go
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink/v2/core/services/relay/evm/mercury/wsrpc/cache"
 	"github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink/v2/core/services/versioning"
 	"github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink/v2/core/services/webhook"
+	"github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink/v2/core/services/workflows"
 	"github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink/v2/core/sessions"
 	"github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink/v2/core/static"
 	"github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink/v2/core/store/migrate"
@@ -109,6 +110,10 @@ func initGlobals(cfgProm config.Prometheus, cfgTracing config.Tracing, cfgTeleme
 				AuthPublicKeyHex:         csaPubKeyHex,
 				AuthHeaders:              beholderAuthHeaders,
 			}
+			// note: due to the OTEL specification, all histogram buckets
+			// must be defined when the beholder client is created
+			clientCfg.MetricViews = append(clientCfg.MetricViews, workflows.MetricViews()...)
+
 			if tracingCfg.Enabled {
 				clientCfg.TraceSpanExporter, err = tracingCfg.NewSpanExporter()
 				if err != nil {
diff --git a/core/services/workflows/monitoring.go b/core/services/workflows/monitoring.go
index d498ff354c9..f4e993d8c6f 100644
--- a/core/services/workflows/monitoring.go
+++ b/core/services/workflows/monitoring.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric"
+	sdkmetric "go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric"
 
 	"github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink-common/pkg/beholder"
 	"github.com/smartcontractkit/chainlink-common/pkg/metrics"
@@ -53,6 +54,37 @@ func initMonitoringResources() (err error) {
 	return nil
 }
 
+// Note: due to the OTEL specification, all histogram buckets
+// Must be defined when the beholder client is created
+func MetricViews() []sdkmetric.View {
+	return []sdkmetric.View{
+		sdkmetric.NewView(
+			sdkmetric.Instrument{Name: "platform_engine_workflow_earlyexit_time_seconds"},
+			sdkmetric.Stream{Aggregation: sdkmetric.AggregationExplicitBucketHistogram{
+				Boundaries: []float64{0, 1, 10, 100},
+			}},
+		),
+		sdkmetric.NewView(
+			sdkmetric.Instrument{Name: "platform_engine_workflow_completed_time_seconds"},
+			sdkmetric.Stream{Aggregation: sdkmetric.AggregationExplicitBucketHistogram{
+				Boundaries: []float64{0, 100, 1000, 10_000, 50_000, 100_0000, 500_000},
+			}},
+		),
+		sdkmetric.NewView(
+			sdkmetric.Instrument{Name: "platform_engine_workflow_error_time_seconds"},
+			sdkmetric.Stream{Aggregation: sdkmetric.AggregationExplicitBucketHistogram{
+				Boundaries: []float64{0, 20, 60, 120, 240},
+			}},
+		),
+		sdkmetric.NewView(
+			sdkmetric.Instrument{Name: "platform_engine_workflow_step_time_seconds"},
+			sdkmetric.Stream{Aggregation: sdkmetric.AggregationExplicitBucketHistogram{
+				Boundaries: []float64{0, 20, 60, 120, 240},
+			}},
+		),
+	}
+}
+
 // workflowsMetricLabeler wraps monitoring.MetricsLabeler to provide workflow specific utilities
 // for monitoring resources
 type workflowsMetricLabeler struct {
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index e80ee7a7ba2..f532f3d9a6f 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ require (
 	go.opentelemetry.io/contrib/instrumentation/github.com/gin-gonic/gin/otelgin v0.49.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel v1.31.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v1.31.0
+	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric v1.31.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v1.31.0
 	go.uber.org/multierr v1.11.0
 	go.uber.org/zap v1.27.0
@@ -361,7 +362,6 @@ require (
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/log v0.6.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk v1.31.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log v0.6.0 // indirect
-	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric v1.31.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/proto/otlp v1.3.1 // indirect
 	go.uber.org/ratelimit v0.3.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/arch v0.11.0 // indirect