diff --git a/ddev/changelog.d/19252.added b/ddev/changelog.d/19252.added
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..976e3f4bbada6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ddev/changelog.d/19252.added
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Add decimal/binary specific byte units
diff --git a/ddev/src/ddev/cli/validate/metadata_utils.py b/ddev/src/ddev/cli/validate/metadata_utils.py
index ec31f5c83b8c1..87eeebf6ce7e4 100644
--- a/ddev/src/ddev/cli/validate/metadata_utils.py
+++ b/ddev/src/ddev/cli/validate/metadata_utils.py
@@ -392,6 +392,10 @@
     "yemeni rial",
     "zambian kwacha",
     "zimbabwe gold",
+    "bit_in_decimal_bytes_family",
+    "byte_in_decimal_bytes_family",
+    "bit_in_binary_bytes_family",
+    "byte_in_binary_bytes_family",
 }
 
 ALLOWED_PREFIXES = ('system.', 'jvm.', 'http.', 'datadog.', 'sftp.', 'process.', 'runtime.', 'otelcol_')