diff --git a/playbooks/manual/restart-pagure.yml b/playbooks/manual/restart-pagure.yml
index c0ff518233..7608cbe50a 100644
--- a/playbooks/manual/restart-pagure.yml
+++ b/playbooks/manual/restart-pagure.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
   - include: "{{ handlers_path }}/restart_services.yml"
 
   tasks:
+  - name: ask puiterwijk if he would like to capture debug info before restarting.
+    pause: seconds=30 prompt="Restarting pagure, abort if you want to get puiterwijk's attention first."
+
   - name: Reload apache...
     service: name="httpd" state=reloaded