diff --git a/machines/gerd/services/monitoring/prometheus.nix b/machines/gerd/services/monitoring/prometheus.nix
index e9e9176..894c7ea 100644
--- a/machines/gerd/services/monitoring/prometheus.nix
+++ b/machines/gerd/services/monitoring/prometheus.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ in {
   services.prometheus = {
     enable = true;
     globalConfig.scrape_interval = "10s";
+    globalConfig.scrape_timeout = "10s";
     listenAddress = "localhost";
 
     # default is 15 days, we just set it to 14 to be explicit