diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 54a98fed0465..a9b9cd4f37e5 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ data-agent
 /cmd/benchmark/data/
 /cmd/benchmark/main
 /cmd/benchmark/grafana-agent-flow
+/cmd/benchmark/benchmark
 /cmd/agent/agent
 /cmd/agentctl/agentctl
 /cmd/agent-operator/agent-operator
diff --git a/cmd/benchmark/configs/logsgen.river b/cmd/benchmark/configs/logsgen.river
index b0fbfe11af85..422949577c0a 100644
--- a/cmd/benchmark/configs/logsgen.river
+++ b/cmd/benchmark/configs/logsgen.river
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@ loki.test.logs "logs" {
 	number_of_files    = 100
 	file_churn_percent = .25
 	file_refresh       = "1m"
+	write_cadence      = "1s"
 	writes_per_cadence = 100
-
 	labels = {
-		"test" = "me",
+		"instance" = "localhost",
 	}
 }
diff --git a/cmd/benchmark/metrics.go b/cmd/benchmark/metrics.go
index 0fbdf20d05fd..6978d8f18073 100644
--- a/cmd/benchmark/metrics.go
+++ b/cmd/benchmark/metrics.go
@@ -96,11 +96,11 @@ func metricsCommand() *cobra.Command {
 			select {
 			case <-t.C:
 			case <-signalChannel:
-				for k, p := range running {
-					cleanupPid(p, fmt.Sprintf("./data/%s", k))
-				}
-
 			}
+			for k, p := range running {
+				cleanupPid(p, fmt.Sprintf("./data/%s", k))
+			}
+
 			return nil
 		},
 	}