diff --git a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tool/Canary.java b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tool/Canary.java
index 8875862f1d9..ae6324f71b6 100644
--- a/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tool/Canary.java
+++ b/hbase-server/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hbase/tool/Canary.java
@@ -565,7 +565,7 @@ public final class Canary implements Tool {
   private static final int ERROR_EXIT_CODE = 4;
   private static final int FAILURE_EXIT_CODE = 5;
 
-  private static final long DEFAULT_INTERVAL = 6000;
+  private static final long DEFAULT_INTERVAL = 60000;
 
   private static final long DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = 600000; // 10 mins
   private static final int MAX_THREADS_NUM = 16; // #threads to contact regions
diff --git a/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/ops_mgt.adoc b/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/ops_mgt.adoc
index 10b9d00cd67..8d49ef89b07 100644
--- a/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/ops_mgt.adoc
+++ b/src/main/asciidoc/_chapters/ops_mgt.adoc
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ $ ${HBASE_HOME}/bin/hbase canary -e test-0[1-2]
 
 ==== Run canary test as daemon mode
 
-Run repeatedly with interval defined in option `-interval` whose default value is 6 seconds.
+Run repeatedly with interval defined in option `-interval` whose default value is 60 seconds.
 This daemon will stop itself and return non-zero error code if any error occurs, due to the default value of option -f is true.
 
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