diff --git a/roles/graphite/fedmsg2statsd/files/fedmsg2statsd.service b/roles/graphite/fedmsg2statsd/files/fedmsg2statsd.service
index 6781529403..ff11560c4c 100644
--- a/roles/graphite/fedmsg2statsd/files/fedmsg2statsd.service
+++ b/roles/graphite/fedmsg2statsd/files/fedmsg2statsd.service
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Type=simple
 User=nobody
 Group=nobody
 LimitNOFILE=160000
-Restart=on-failure
+Restart=always
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target