diff --git a/playbooks/manual/restart-fedmsg-services.yml b/playbooks/manual/restart-fedmsg-services.yml
index 18a6b5033e..e47f92b678 100644
--- a/playbooks/manual/restart-fedmsg-services.yml
+++ b/playbooks/manual/restart-fedmsg-services.yml
@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@
     nagios: action=downtime minutes=25 service=host host={{ inventory_hostname_short }}{{ env_suffix }}
     delegate_to: noc01.phx2.fedoraproject.org
     ignore_errors: true
+  - name: bounce the fmn-digests service
+    service: name=fmn-digests@1 state=restarted
 
 - name: restart fedmsg-hub instances
   hosts: fedmsg-hubs;fedmsg-hubs-stg