diff --git a/files/image_config/monit/monitrc b/files/image_config/monit/monitrc
index 3c3714882dcc..74068f12d3f8 100644
--- a/files/image_config/monit/monitrc
+++ b/files/image_config/monit/monitrc
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@
 ## Start Monit in the background (run as a daemon):
 #
   set daemon 60             # check services at 1-minute intervals
-#   with start delay 240    # optional: delay the first check by 4-minutes (by
-#                           # default Monit check immediately after Monit start)
+    with start delay 300    # we delay Monit to start monitoring for 5 minutes
+                            # intentionally such that all containers and processes
+                            # have ample time to start up.
 #
 #
 ## Set syslog logging. If you want to log to a standalone log file instead,