diff --git a/plugins/jenkins/jenkins_ b/plugins/jenkins/jenkins_
index edab804f..d60ef71c 100644
--- a/plugins/jenkins/jenkins_
+++ b/plugins/jenkins/jenkins_
@@ -134,7 +134,11 @@ if ( exists $ARGV[0] and $ARGV[0] eq "config" ) {
 		my $result = `$cmd/api/json`;
 		my $parsed = decode_json($result);
 		foreach my $cur(@{$parsed->{'jobs'}}) {
-			$counts{$cur->{'color'}} += 1;
+			if (defined $states{$cur->{'color'}}) {
+				$counts{$cur->{'color'}} += 1;
+			} else {
+				warn "Ignoring unknown color " . $cur->{'color'} . "\n"
+			}
 		}
 		
 		foreach my $status (keys %counts) {