diff --git a/configobject/configsync/configsync.go b/configobject/configsync/configsync.go
index 193f3c85..ac8268f3 100644
--- a/configobject/configsync/configsync.go
+++ b/configobject/configsync/configsync.go
@@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ func DeleteExecWorker(super *supervisor.Supervisor, objectInformation *configobj
 			super.ChErr <- super.Dbw.SqlBulkDelete(keys, objectInformation.BulkDeleteStmt)
 			rowLen := len(keys)
 			wg.Add(-rowLen)
-			ConfigSyncInsertsTotal.WithLabelValues(objectInformation.ObjectType).Add(float64(rowLen))
+			ConfigSyncDeletesTotal.WithLabelValues(objectInformation.ObjectType).Add(float64(rowLen))
 		}(keys)
 	}
 }
diff --git a/configobject/statesync/prometheus.go b/configobject/statesync/prometheus.go
index 4026cb15..294bcdef 100644
--- a/configobject/statesync/prometheus.go
+++ b/configobject/statesync/prometheus.go
@@ -5,10 +5,10 @@ import (
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/promauto"
 )
 
-var StateSyncsPerSecond = promauto.NewGaugeVec(
-	prometheus.GaugeOpts{
-		Name: "statesyncs_per_second",
-		Help: "Statesyncs per second per object type",
+var StateSyncsTotal = promauto.NewCounterVec(
+	prometheus.CounterOpts{
+		Name: "statesyncs_total",
+		Help: "Statesyncs total per object type",
 	},
 	[]string{"objecttype"},
 )
diff --git a/configobject/statesync/statesync.go b/configobject/statesync/statesync.go
index b9b457ed..58e9c54b 100644
--- a/configobject/statesync/statesync.go
+++ b/configobject/statesync/statesync.go
@@ -58,7 +58,6 @@ func syncStates(super *supervisor.Supervisor, objectType string) {
 
 	states := streams[0].Messages
 	if len(states) == 0 {
-		StateSyncsPerSecond.WithLabelValues(objectType).Set(0)
 		return
 	}
 
@@ -131,7 +130,7 @@ func syncStates(super *supervisor.Supervisor, objectType string) {
 
 	log.Debugf("%d %s state synced", len(storedStateIds), objectType)
 	syncCounter[objectType] += len(storedStateIds)
-	StateSyncsPerSecond.WithLabelValues(objectType).Set(float64(len(storedStateIds)))
+	StateSyncsTotal.WithLabelValues(objectType).Add(float64(len(storedStateIds)))
 }
 
 //Converts a Icinga state type(0 for soft, 1 for hard) we got from Redis into a DB state type(soft, hard)