diff --git a/docs/sources/administration/provisioning.md b/docs/sources/administration/provisioning.md
index a026d1ec0cd..16d425d289a 100644
--- a/docs/sources/administration/provisioning.md
+++ b/docs/sources/administration/provisioning.md
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ providers:
   folder: ''
   type: file
   disableDeletion: false
-  updateIntervalSeconds: 3 #how often Grafana will scan for changed dashboards
+  updateIntervalSeconds: 10 #how often Grafana will scan for changed dashboards
   options:
     path: /var/lib/grafana/dashboards
 ```
diff --git a/pkg/services/provisioning/dashboards/config_reader.go b/pkg/services/provisioning/dashboards/config_reader.go
index 7508550838f..bfef06b558e 100644
--- a/pkg/services/provisioning/dashboards/config_reader.go
+++ b/pkg/services/provisioning/dashboards/config_reader.go
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ func (cr *configReader) readConfig() ([]*DashboardsAsConfig, error) {
 		}
 
 		if dashboards[i].UpdateIntervalSeconds == 0 {
-			dashboards[i].UpdateIntervalSeconds = 3
+			dashboards[i].UpdateIntervalSeconds = 10
 		}
 	}