diff --git a/monitoring/prometheus/src/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml b/monitoring/prometheus/src/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
index 15a9d5b..b960f93 100644
--- a/monitoring/prometheus/src/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
+++ b/monitoring/prometheus/src/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ scrape_configs:
       - targets: ["pub-solar-nextcloud-prometheus-exporter.inst.e5756d08-36fd-424b-f8bc-acdb92ca7b82.lev-1.int.greenbaum.zone:9205"]
 
   - job_name: "cloud_pub_solar_nextcloud_backup"
+    # Backups run daily, so scraping this endpoint more often doesn't have any benefit
+    scrape_interval: 60m # Set the scrape interval to every 60 minutes. Default is every 1 minute.
 
     # metrics_path defaults to '/metrics'
     # scheme defaults to 'http'.