diff --git a/plugins/swift/swift-async_ b/plugins/swift/swift-async_
index 51d0c737..a39f7298 100755
--- a/plugins/swift/swift-async_
+++ b/plugins/swift/swift-async_
@@ -45,4 +45,6 @@ except IndexError:
 
 async_r = requests.get("http://%s:%s/recon/async" \
                            % (swift_server, os.getenv("SWIFT_OBJECT_PORT", "6000")))
-print "async_pending.value %d" % json.loads(async_r.text)['async_pending']
+async_r = json.loads(async_r.text)['async_pending']
+async_r = int(0 if async_r is None else async_r)
+print "async_pending.value %d" % async_r
diff --git a/plugins/swift/swift-dispersion b/plugins/swift/swift-dispersion
index e512656d..08d10249 100755
--- a/plugins/swift/swift-dispersion
+++ b/plugins/swift/swift-dispersion
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ except IndexError:
     pass
 
 with os.popen("swift-dispersion-report -j %s" \
-                  % os.getenv("SWIFT_DISPERSION_CONFIG", "/etc/swift/swift.conf")) as report:
+                  % os.getenv("SWIFT_DISPERSION_CONFIG", "/etc/swift/dispersion.conf")) as report:
     stats = json.load(report)
 
 for type_, values in stats.iteritems():