diff --git a/src/services.js b/src/services.js
index dadf91beb..6afa87d25 100644
--- a/src/services.js
+++ b/src/services.js
@@ -2157,9 +2157,9 @@ function restartGraphite(callback) {
     docker.restartContainer('graphite', callback);
 
     setTimeout(function () {
-        // wait for graphite to startup and then restart collectd
+        // wait for graphite to startup and then restart collectd. graphite migrations can be quite slow!
         shell.sudo('restartcollectd', [ RESTART_SERVICE_CMD, 'collectd' ], {}, NOOP_CALLBACK);
-    }, 10000);
+    }, 60000);
 }
 
 function teardownOauth(app, options, callback) {