diff --git a/prometheus/templates/prometheus.yml.j2 b/prometheus/templates/prometheus.yml.j2
index d8f11923d028b7b64b3843cef2ec48a0d41dd6a5..6ba221985838a154a290aaeb686ced90cd0d09bb 100644
--- a/prometheus/templates/prometheus.yml.j2
+++ b/prometheus/templates/prometheus.yml.j2
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ global:
   # external systems (federation, remote storage, Alertmanager).
   external_labels:
       monitor: '{{ ansible_fqdn }}'
+  scrape_interval: '{{ prometheus_scrape_interval|default("1m") }}'
+  scrape_timeout: '{{ prometheus_scrape_timeout|default("10s") }}'
 
 alerting:
   alert_relabel_configs: