diff --git a/src/services.js b/src/services.js
index 6afa87d25..9a0851d53 100644
--- a/src/services.js
+++ b/src/services.js
@@ -1825,7 +1825,12 @@ function startGraphite(existingInfra, serviceConfig, callback) {
             shell.sudo('removeGraphiteDir', [ RMADDONDIR_CMD, 'graphite' ], {}, done);
         },
         shell.exec.bind(null, 'startGraphite', cmd)
-    ], callback);
+    ], function (error) {
+        // restart collectd to get the disk stats after graphite starts. currently, there is no way to do graphite health check
+        if (!error) setTimeout(() => shell.sudo('restartcollectd', [ RESTART_SERVICE_CMD, 'collectd' ], {}, NOOP_CALLBACK), 60000);
+
+        callback(error);
+    });
 }
 
 function setupProxyAuth(app, options, callback) {
@@ -2156,10 +2161,7 @@ function restartGraphite(callback) {
 
     docker.restartContainer('graphite', callback);
 
-    setTimeout(function () {
-        // wait for graphite to startup and then restart collectd. graphite migrations can be quite slow!
-        shell.sudo('restartcollectd', [ RESTART_SERVICE_CMD, 'collectd' ], {}, NOOP_CALLBACK);
-    }, 60000);
+    setTimeout(() => shell.sudo('restartcollectd', [ RESTART_SERVICE_CMD, 'collectd' ], {}, NOOP_CALLBACK), 60000);
 }
 
 function teardownOauth(app, options, callback) {