diff --git a/plugins/jitsi/jitsi_videobridge b/plugins/jitsi/jitsi_videobridge
index c66cce76..044859db 100755
--- a/plugins/jitsi/jitsi_videobridge
+++ b/plugins/jitsi/jitsi_videobridge
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ installed jq, a command-line json processor.
 
 You may specify the URL where to get the statistics.
 
- sites       - URL of colibri stats
- max_time    - Timeout curl - defaults to 3 seconds
+ url      - URL of colibri stats
+ max_time - Timeout curl - defaults to 3 seconds
 
  [jitsi_videobridge]
  env.url http://127.0.0.1:8080/colibri/stats
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ GPLv2
 . "$MUNIN_LIBDIR/plugins/plugin.sh"
 
 COLIBRI_URL=${url:-"http://127.0.0.1:8080/colibri/stats"}
+max_time=${max_time:-3}
 
 case $1 in
 
@@ -111,7 +112,7 @@ case $1 in
 
 esac
 
-JSONSTATS=$(curl -s -f -m 2 "$COLIBRI_URL")
+JSONSTATS=$(curl -s -f -m "$max_time" "$COLIBRI_URL")
 
 echo "multigraph jitsi_videobridge_sessions"
 for KEY in videochannels audiochannels conferences participants; do