diff --git a/site/profiles/manifests/puppet/puppetdb_api.pp b/site/profiles/manifests/puppet/puppetdb_api.pp
index 8c2177e..bdf7532 100644
--- a/site/profiles/manifests/puppet/puppetdb_api.pp
+++ b/site/profiles/manifests/puppet/puppetdb_api.pp
@@ -24,6 +24,19 @@ class profiles::puppet::puppetdb_api (
 
     contain ::puppetdb::server
 
+    # generate the minute for the cron job using fqdn_rand
+    $random_minute = fqdn_rand(60)
+
+    # create cron task to restart the puppetdb service daily at 3am
+    cron { 'restart_puppetdb':
+      ensure  => 'present',
+      user    => 'root',
+      command => '/bin/systemctl restart puppetdb',
+      minute  => $random_minute,
+      hour    => '3',
+      require => Service['puppetdb'],
+    }
+
     class { 'prometheus::puppetdb_exporter':
       puppetdb_url      => "http://${listen_address}:8080/pdb/query",
       export_scrape_job => true,