diff --git a/roles/fedmsg/base/templates/base.py.j2 b/roles/fedmsg/base/templates/base.py.j2
index 675d9ee70c..a7dd5c2be8 100644
--- a/roles/fedmsg/base/templates/base.py.j2
+++ b/roles/fedmsg/base/templates/base.py.j2
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ try:
 
     config['moksha.monitoring.socket'] = \
         'ipc:///var/run/fedmsg/monitoring-%s.socket' % proc.name
+    config['moksha.monitoring.socket.mode'] = '770'
 except (OSError, ImportError):
     # We run into issues when trying to import psutil from mod_wsgi on rhel7
     # but this feature is of no concern in that context, so just fail quietly.