diff --git a/playbooks/manual/restart-fedmsg-services.yml b/playbooks/manual/restart-fedmsg-services.yml
index 23e95bbcf9..5af80b64be 100644
--- a/playbooks/manual/restart-fedmsg-services.yml
+++ b/playbooks/manual/restart-fedmsg-services.yml
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@
    - /srv/web/infra/ansible/vars/{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml
 
   tasks:
-  - name: schedule a 10 minute downtime.  give notifs backend time to start up.
-    nagios: action=downtime minutes=10 service=host host={{ inventory_hostname }}
+  - name: schedule a 15 minute downtime.  give notifs backend time to start up.
+    nagios: action=downtime minutes=15 service=host host={{ inventory_hostname }}
     delegate_to: noc01.phx2.fedoraproject.org
     ignore_errors: true