diff --git a/playbooks/manual/upgrade/fmn.yml b/playbooks/manual/upgrade/fmn.yml
index 8487feb46e..20c9e63d72 100644
--- a/playbooks/manual/upgrade/fmn.yml
+++ b/playbooks/manual/upgrade/fmn.yml
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
 
   pre_tasks:
   - name: tell nagios to shush w.r.t. the backend
-    nagios: action=downtime minutes=25 service=host host={{ inventory_hostname_short }}{{ env_suffix }}
+    nagios: action=downtime minutes=5 service=host host={{ inventory_hostname_short }}{{ env_suffix }}
     delegate_to: noc01.phx2.fedoraproject.org
     ignore_errors: true