diff --git a/app-metrics/memcached_exporter/memcached_exporter-0.9.0.ebuild b/app-metrics/memcached_exporter/memcached_exporter-0.9.0.ebuild
index e68cb08384743..3e8f7c6663e9e 100644
--- a/app-metrics/memcached_exporter/memcached_exporter-0.9.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-metrics/memcached_exporter/memcached_exporter-0.9.0.ebuild
@@ -455,6 +455,9 @@ DEPEND="acct-group/memcached_exporter
 	acct-user/memcached_exporter"
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 
+# tests require the memcached_exporter daemon to be running locally
+RESTRICT+=" test "
+
 src_prepare() {
 	default
 	sed -i \