diff --git a/daemon/cli.c b/daemon/cli.c
index 0c7bdaac5..bee035970 100644
--- a/daemon/cli.c
+++ b/daemon/cli.c
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ static void cli_incoming_list_totals(str *instr, struct cli_writer *cw) {
 	AUTO_CLEANUP_INIT(GQueue *metrics, statistics_free_metrics, statistics_gather_metrics(NULL));
 
 	for (GList *l = metrics->head; l; l = l->next) {
-		struct stats_metric *m = l->data;
+		stats_metric *m = l->data;
 		if (!m->descr)
 			continue;
 		if (m->value_long) {
@@ -1706,7 +1706,7 @@ static void cli_incoming_list_jsonstats(str *instr, struct cli_writer *cw) {
 	AUTO_CLEANUP_INIT(GQueue *metrics, statistics_free_metrics, statistics_gather_metrics(NULL));
 
 	for (GList *l = metrics->head; l; l = l->next) {
-		struct stats_metric *m = l->data;
+		stats_metric *m = l->data;
 		if (!m->label)
 			continue;
 
diff --git a/daemon/mqtt.c b/daemon/mqtt.c
index c5b79c30c..3d070c318 100644
--- a/daemon/mqtt.c
+++ b/daemon/mqtt.c
@@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ static void mqtt_global_stats(JsonBuilder *json) {
 			statistics_gather_metrics(&interface_rate_stats));
 
 	for (GList *l = metrics->head; l; l = l->next) {
-		struct stats_metric *m = l->data;
+		stats_metric *m = l->data;
 		if (!m->label)
 			continue;
 
diff --git a/daemon/statistics.c b/daemon/statistics.c
index 6a94f0660..382ed2bcb 100644
--- a/daemon/statistics.c
+++ b/daemon/statistics.c
@@ -198,7 +198,7 @@ found:;
 
 
 INLINE void prom_metric(GQueue *ret, const char *name, const char *type) {
-	struct stats_metric *last = g_queue_peek_tail(ret);
+	stats_metric *last = g_queue_peek_tail(ret);
 	last->prom_name = name;
 	last->prom_type = type;
 }
@@ -207,15 +207,15 @@ static void prom_label(GQueue *ret, const char *fmt, ...) {
 		return;
 	va_list ap;
 	va_start(ap, fmt);
-	struct stats_metric *last = g_queue_peek_tail(ret);
+	stats_metric *last = g_queue_peek_tail(ret);
 	last->prom_label = g_strdup_vprintf(fmt, ap);
 	va_end(ap);
 }
 #define PROM(name, type) prom_metric(ret, name, type)
 #define PROMLAB(fmt, ...) prom_label(ret, fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__)
 
-INLINE void metric_push(GQueue *ret, struct stats_metric *m) {
-	struct stats_metric *last = NULL;
+INLINE void metric_push(GQueue *ret, stats_metric *m) {
+	stats_metric *last = NULL;
 	for (GList *l_last = ret->tail; l_last; l_last = l_last->prev) {
 		last = l_last->data;
 		if (last->label)
@@ -233,7 +233,7 @@ INLINE void metric_push(GQueue *ret, struct stats_metric *m) {
 static void add_metric(GQueue *ret, const char *label, const char *desc, const char *fmt1, const char *fmt2, ...) {
 	va_list ap;
 
-	struct stats_metric *m = g_slice_alloc0(sizeof(*m));
+	stats_metric *m = g_slice_alloc0(sizeof(*m));
 	if (label)
 		m->label = g_strdup(label);
 	if (desc)
@@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ static void add_metric(GQueue *ret, const char *label, const char *desc, const c
 static void add_header(GQueue *ret, const char *fmt1, const char *fmt2, ...) {
 	va_list ap;
 
-	struct stats_metric *m = g_slice_alloc0(sizeof(*m));
+	stats_metric *m = g_slice_alloc0(sizeof(*m));
 	if (fmt1) {
 		va_start(ap, fmt2); // coverity[copy_paste_error : FALSE]
 		m->label = g_strdup_vprintf(fmt1, ap);
@@ -915,7 +915,7 @@ GQueue *statistics_gather_metrics(struct interface_sampled_rate_stats *interface
 #pragma GCC diagnostic warning "-Wformat-zero-length"
 
 static void free_stats_metric(void *p) {
-	struct stats_metric *m = p;
+	stats_metric *m = p;
 	g_free(m->descr);
 	g_free(m->label);
 	g_free(m->value_long);
@@ -960,7 +960,7 @@ const char *statistics_ng(bencode_item_t *input, bencode_item_t *output) {
 	bencode_buffer_t *buf = output->buffer;
 
 	for (GList *l = metrics->head; l; l = l->next) {
-		struct stats_metric *m = l->data;
+		stats_metric *m = l->data;
 		if (!m->label)
 			continue;
 
diff --git a/daemon/websocket.c b/daemon/websocket.c
index 481dd0b84..fa0441e6f 100644
--- a/daemon/websocket.c
+++ b/daemon/websocket.c
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ static const char *websocket_http_metrics(struct websocket_message *wm) {
 	g_autoptr(GHashTable) metric_types = g_hash_table_new(g_str_hash, g_str_equal);
 
 	for (GList *l = metrics->head; l; l = l->next) {
-		struct stats_metric *m = l->data;
+		stats_metric *m = l->data;
 		if (!m->label)
 			continue;
 		if (!m->value_short)
diff --git a/include/types.h b/include/types.h
index 1ae268f7b..4737e6cf5 100644
--- a/include/types.h
+++ b/include/types.h
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #define __TYPES__H__
 
 typedef struct sdp_ng_flags sdp_ng_flags;
+typedef struct stats_metric stats_metric;
 
 #include "containers.h"