diff --git a/roles/collectd/web-service/tasks/main.yml b/roles/collectd/web-service/tasks/main.yml
index aafcfacd36..1638239408 100644
--- a/roles/collectd/web-service/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/collectd/web-service/tasks/main.yml
@@ -16,3 +16,6 @@
   tags:
   - collectd
   notify: restart collectd
+
+- name: Let collectd talk to apache over tcp
+  seboolean: name=collectd_tcp_network_connect state=yes persistent=yes