diff --git a/ansible/group_vars/all.yml b/ansible/group_vars/all.yml
index c60027f6a6..1c7eaf597a 100644
--- a/ansible/group_vars/all.yml
+++ b/ansible/group_vars/all.yml
@@ -1111,9 +1111,10 @@ enable_prometheus_libvirt_exporter: "{{ enable_prometheus | bool and enable_nova
 enable_prometheus_etcd_integration: "{{ enable_prometheus | bool and enable_etcd | bool }}"
 
 prometheus_alertmanager_user: "admin"
-prometheus_openstack_exporter_interval: "60s"
+prometheus_scrape_interval: "60s"
+prometheus_openstack_exporter_interval: "{{ prometheus_scrape_interval }}"
 prometheus_openstack_exporter_timeout: "10s"
-prometheus_elasticsearch_exporter_interval: "60s"
+prometheus_elasticsearch_exporter_interval: "{{ prometheus_scrape_interval }}"
 prometheus_cmdline_extras:
 prometheus_ceph_mgr_exporter_endpoints: []
 prometheus_openstack_exporter_endpoint_type: "internal"
diff --git a/ansible/roles/grafana/templates/prometheus.yaml.j2 b/ansible/roles/grafana/templates/prometheus.yaml.j2
index 870da4b7f9..3021a791be 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/grafana/templates/prometheus.yaml.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/grafana/templates/prometheus.yaml.j2
@@ -7,3 +7,6 @@ datasources:
   orgId: 1
   url: {{ grafana_prometheus_url }}
   version: 1
+  jsonData:
+    timeInterval: {{ prometheus_scrape_interval }}
+
diff --git a/ansible/roles/prometheus/templates/prometheus.yml.j2 b/ansible/roles/prometheus/templates/prometheus.yml.j2
index afc9b04c15..09ab077e1c 100644
--- a/ansible/roles/prometheus/templates/prometheus.yml.j2
+++ b/ansible/roles/prometheus/templates/prometheus.yml.j2
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 global:
-  scrape_interval: 60s
+  scrape_interval: {{ prometheus_scrape_interval }}
   scrape_timeout: 10s
   evaluation_interval: 15s
   external_labels:
diff --git a/doc/source/reference/logging-and-monitoring/prometheus-guide.rst b/doc/source/reference/logging-and-monitoring/prometheus-guide.rst
index aa15b52014..3d67bb92b1 100644
--- a/doc/source/reference/logging-and-monitoring/prometheus-guide.rst
+++ b/doc/source/reference/logging-and-monitoring/prometheus-guide.rst
@@ -45,6 +45,20 @@ and data retention size to 30 gigabytes:
 
    prometheus_cmdline_extras: "--query.timeout=1m --storage.tsdb.retention.size=30GB"
 
+Configuration options
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. list-table:: Configuration options
+   :widths: 25 25 75
+   :header-rows: 1
+
+   * - Option
+     - Default
+     - Description
+   * - prometheus_scrape_interval
+     - 60s
+     - Default scape interval for all jobs
+
 Extending prometheus.cfg
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/adds-prometheus-scrape-interval-89b791f93413d070.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/adds-prometheus-scrape-interval-89b791f93413d070.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..741ff6a8d5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/adds-prometheus-scrape-interval-89b791f93413d070.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+---
+features:
+  - |
+    Adds the ``prometheus_scrape_interval`` configuration option. The default
+    is set to ``60s``. This configures the default scrape interval for all
+    jobs.
+fixes:
+  - |
+    The scrape interval for the prometheus data source in grafana is now to set
+    to ``prometheus_scrape_interval``. This fixes issues with dashboards that
+    use the ``$__rate_interval`` grafana variable as the default scrape
+    interval of 60s does not match the grafana default of 15s.