diff --git a/images/virtualization-artifact/pkg/monitoring/metrics/vmop/data_metric.go b/images/virtualization-artifact/pkg/monitoring/metrics/vmop/data_metric.go
index 99246e0524..e561aa11a1 100644
--- a/images/virtualization-artifact/pkg/monitoring/metrics/vmop/data_metric.go
+++ b/images/virtualization-artifact/pkg/monitoring/metrics/vmop/data_metric.go
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ type dataMetric struct {
 	Name      string
 	Namespace string
 	UID       string
+	Type      string
 	Phase     v1alpha2.VMOPPhase
 }
 
@@ -36,5 +37,6 @@ func newDataMetric(vmop *v1alpha2.VirtualMachineOperation) *dataMetric {
 		Namespace: vmop.Namespace,
 		UID:       string(vmop.UID),
 		Phase:     vmop.Status.Phase,
+		Type:      string(vmop.Spec.Type),
 	}
 }
diff --git a/images/virtualization-artifact/pkg/monitoring/metrics/vmop/metrics.go b/images/virtualization-artifact/pkg/monitoring/metrics/vmop/metrics.go
index 1df63403a5..a7b2920e36 100644
--- a/images/virtualization-artifact/pkg/monitoring/metrics/vmop/metrics.go
+++ b/images/virtualization-artifact/pkg/monitoring/metrics/vmop/metrics.go
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ const (
 	MetricVMOPStatusPhase = "virtualmachineoperation_status_phase"
 )
 
-var baseLabels = []string{"name", "namespace", "uid"}
+var baseLabels = []string{"name", "namespace", "uid", "type"}
 
 func WithBaseLabels(labels ...string) []string {
 	return append(baseLabels, labels...)
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ func WithBaseLabelsByMetric(m *dataMetric, labels ...string) []string {
 			m.Name,
 			m.Namespace,
 			m.UID,
+			m.Type,
 		}
 	}
 	return append(base, labels...)