diff --git a/playbooks/groups/memcached.yml b/playbooks/groups/memcached.yml
index 5fc955bb4b..90d52b0268 100644
--- a/playbooks/groups/memcached.yml
+++ b/playbooks/groups/memcached.yml
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
   - hosts
   - fas_client
   - collectd/base
+  - collectd/memcached
   - sudo
   - memcached
 
diff --git a/roles/collectd/memcached/files/memcached.conf b/roles/collectd/memcached/files/memcached.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..d59815b969
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/collectd/memcached/files/memcached.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+LoadPlugin memcached
+
+<Plugin memcached>
+    Host "localhost"
+    Port "11211"
+</Plugin>
diff --git a/roles/collectd/memcached/tasks/main.yml b/roles/collectd/memcached/tasks/main.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3023af707e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/roles/collectd/memcached/tasks/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+---
+
+- name: Copy in the memcached collectd config
+  copy: src=memcached.conf dest=/etc/collectd.d/memcached.conf
+  tags:
+  - collectd
+  - memcached
+  notify: restart collectd