diff --git a/ctdb/common/ctdb_recoverd.c b/ctdb/common/ctdb_recoverd.c
index cd68a9ce00c..3f8882ce79d 100644
--- a/ctdb/common/ctdb_recoverd.c
+++ b/ctdb/common/ctdb_recoverd.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ static void timeout_func(struct event_context *ev, struct timed_event *te,
 }
 
 #define CONTROL_TIMEOUT() timeval_current_ofs(5, 0)
+#define MONITOR_TIMEOUT() timeval_current_ofs(1, 0)
 
 static int set_recovery_mode(struct ctdb_context *ctdb, struct ctdb_node_map *nodemap, uint32_t rec_mode)
 {
@@ -699,7 +700,7 @@ again:
 
 	/* we only check for recovery once every second */
 	timed_out = 0;
-	event_add_timed(ctdb->ev, mem_ctx, CONTROL_TIMEOUT(), timeout_func, ctdb);
+	event_add_timed(ctdb->ev, mem_ctx, MONITOR_TIMEOUT(), timeout_func, ctdb);
 	while (!timed_out) {
 		event_loop_once(ctdb->ev);
 	}
diff --git a/ctdb/include/ctdb_private.h b/ctdb/include/ctdb_private.h
index 418e4751ee0..31751c24ae9 100644
--- a/ctdb/include/ctdb_private.h
+++ b/ctdb/include/ctdb_private.h
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ struct ctdb_db_context {
 #define CTDB_TRAVERSE_TIMEOUT 20
 
 /* timeout between dead-node monitoring events */
-#define CTDB_MONITORING_TIMEOUT 3
+#define CTDB_MONITORING_TIMEOUT 2
 
 /* number of monitoring timeouts before a node is considered dead */
 #define CTDB_MONITORING_DEAD_COUNT 2