diff --git a/plugins/relayd b/plugins/relayd
index dd7e3359..2adaa5b9 100755
--- a/plugins/relayd
+++ b/plugins/relayd
@@ -146,10 +146,14 @@ for my $host (@hosts) {
 
 print "multigraph relayd_avail\n\n";
 for my $host (@hosts) {
-  	print "$host.value " . ($avail{$host} || 'NaN'). "\n";
+	my $clean = clean_fieldname($host);
+	$clean  = clean_fieldname('host'.$host) unless ($clean ne '_');
+  	print "$clean.value " . ($avail{$host} || 'NaN'). "\n";
 }
 
 print "\nmultigraph relayd_incidents\n\n";
 for my $host (@hosts) {
-	print "$host.value " . ($down{$host} || 0). "\n";
+	my $clean = clean_fieldname($host);
+	$clean  = clean_fieldname('host'.$host) unless ($clean ne '_');
+	print "$clean.value " . ($down{$host} || 0). "\n";
 }