diff --git a/buildout/instance-profiles/memcached.cfg b/buildout/instance-profiles/memcached.cfg
index b70f784860f481369ecd02ae459a4f1be195ea8a..2ab02a5bc6b3587be4575f2f208651e2da077847 100644
--- a/buildout/instance-profiles/memcached.cfg
+++ b/buildout/instance-profiles/memcached.cfg
@@ -40,3 +40,7 @@ memcached_factor = 1.25
 memcached_key_size = 48
 # -t
 memcached_threads = 4
+
+[configuration]
+supervisor_programs +=
+  20 memcached (autorestart=true) ${memcached-instance:memcached_bin_folder}/memcached