diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/monit/init.sls b/cluster/saltbase/salt/monit/init.sls
index 9ca86844be8..26d8cd09538 100644
--- a/cluster/saltbase/salt/monit/init.sls
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/monit/init.sls
@@ -28,6 +28,17 @@ monit:
     - group: root
     - mode: 644
 
+/etc/monit/monit_watcher.sh:
+  file.managed:
+    - source: salt://monit/monit_watcher.sh
+    - user: root
+    - group: root
+    - mode: 755
+
+crontab -l | { cat; echo "* * * * * /etc/monit/monit_watcher.sh 2>&1 | logger"; } | crontab -:
+  cmd.run:
+  - unless: crontab -l | grep "* * * * * /etc/monit/monit_watcher.sh 2>&1 | logger"
+
 monit-service:
   service:
     - running
diff --git a/cluster/saltbase/salt/monit/monit_watcher.sh b/cluster/saltbase/salt/monit/monit_watcher.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..417f2f844e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cluster/saltbase/salt/monit/monit_watcher.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Copyright 2015 The Kubernetes Authors All rights reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# This script is invoked by crond every minute to check if monit is
+# up and oom protected. If down it restarts monit; otherwise, it exits
+# after applying oom_score_adj
+
+PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin
+
+PROGNAME=monit
+FULLPATH=/usr/bin/$PROGNAME
+
+pids=$(pidof $FULLPATH)
+if [[ "${pids}" == "" ]]; then
+    service $PROGNAME start
+    sleep 10
+fi
+
+# Apply oom_score_adj: -901 to processes
+pids=$(pidof $FULLPATH)
+for pid in "${pids}"; do
+    echo -901 > /proc/$pid/oom_score_adj
+done
+
+