diff --git a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
index 2846afea8fb..85440a8025c 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -623,6 +623,7 @@
   ./services/scheduling/fcron.nix
   ./services/scheduling/marathon.nix
   ./services/search/elasticsearch.nix
+  ./services/search/elasticsearch-curator.nix
   ./services/search/hound.nix
   ./services/search/kibana.nix
   ./services/search/solr.nix
diff --git a/nixos/modules/services/search/elasticsearch-curator.nix b/nixos/modules/services/search/elasticsearch-curator.nix
index 63ffe10d21f..43785c392fe 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/services/search/elasticsearch-curator.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/services/search/elasticsearch-curator.nix
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ let
         # not a Python "NoneType"
         client:
           hosts: ${builtins.toJSON cfg.hosts}
-          port: ${cfg.port}
+          port: ${toString cfg.port}
           url_prefix:
           use_ssl: False
           certificate: