diff --git a/mon/mon.js b/mon/mon.js
index cf531766..bab3d9b0 100644
--- a/mon/mon.js
+++ b/mon/mon.js
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ const etcd_tree = {
             osd_ping_timeout: 5, // seconds. min: 1
             up_wait_retry_interval: 500, // ms. min: 50
             // osd
-            etcd_report_interval: 30, // min: 10
+            etcd_report_interval: 5,
             run_primary: true,
             bind_address: "0.0.0.0",
             bind_port: 0,
diff --git a/src/cli.cpp b/src/cli.cpp
index d24f1d66..b309bfd8 100644
--- a/src/cli.cpp
+++ b/src/cli.cpp
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ void cli_tool_t::help()
         "  Remove <from> or all layers between <from> and <to> (<to> must be a child of <from>),\n"
         "  rebasing all their children accordingly. --writers-stopped allows merging to be a bit\n"
         "  more effective in case of a single 'slim' read-write child and 'fat' removed parent:\n"
-        "  the child is merged into parent in that case and parent is renamed to child.\n"
+        "  the child is merged into parent and parent is renamed to child in that case.\n"
         "  In other cases parent layers are always merged into children.\n"
         "\n"
         "%s flatten [OPTIONS] <layer>\n"
diff --git a/src/osd.cpp b/src/osd.cpp
index 239f29c2..44735b7e 100644
--- a/src/osd.cpp
+++ b/src/osd.cpp
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ void osd_t::parse_config(const json11::Json & config)
     log_level = config["log_level"].uint64_value();
     etcd_report_interval = config["etcd_report_interval"].uint64_value();
     if (etcd_report_interval <= 0)
-        etcd_report_interval = 30;
+        etcd_report_interval = 5;
     readonly = config["readonly"] == "true" || config["readonly"] == "1" || config["readonly"] == "yes";
     run_primary = config["run_primary"] != "false" && config["run_primary"] != "0" && config["run_primary"] != "no";
     no_rebalance = config["no_rebalance"] == "true" || config["no_rebalance"] == "1" || config["no_rebalance"] == "yes";
diff --git a/src/osd.h b/src/osd.h
index e3071e8e..290edc16 100644
--- a/src/osd.h
+++ b/src/osd.h
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ class osd_t
     // config
 
     json11::Json::object config;
-    int etcd_report_interval = 30;
+    int etcd_report_interval = 5;
 
     bool readonly = false;
     osd_num_t osd_num = 1; // OSD numbers start with 1