diff --git a/monitoring/prometheus.go b/monitoring/prometheus.go
index bbb8e579b..eb754b5db 100644
--- a/monitoring/prometheus.go
+++ b/monitoring/prometheus.go
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ var (
 
 const (
 	// dbTimeout is the default database timeout.
-	dbTimeout = 20 * time.Second
+	dbTimeout = 120 * time.Second
 )
 
 // PrometheusExporter is a metric exporter that uses Prometheus directly. The