diff --git a/test/acceptance/ported/regressions.js b/test/acceptance/ported/regressions.js
index fa6330af..941ecb62 100644
--- a/test/acceptance/ported/regressions.js
+++ b/test/acceptance/ported/regressions.js
@@ -102,37 +102,4 @@ describe('regressions', function() {
             done();
         });
     });
-
-    // See https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft/issues/167
-    it("#167 does not die on unexistent statsd host",  function(done) {
-        var CustomOptions = _.clone(ServerOptions);
-        CustomOptions.statsd = _.clone(CustomOptions.statsd);
-        CustomOptions.statsd.host = 'whoami.vizzuality.com';
-        CustomOptions.statsd.cacheDns = false;
-        var server = cartodbServer(CustomOptions);
-        server.req2params = CustomOptions.req2params;
-        server.setMaxListeners(0);
-
-        var errors = [];
-        // We need multiple requests to make sure
-        // statsd_client eventually tries to send
-        // stats _and_ DNS lookup is given enough
-        // time (an interval is used later for that)
-        var numreq = 10;
-        var pending = numreq;
-        var completed = function(err) {
-            if ( err ) {
-                errors.push(err);
-            }
-            if ( ! --pending ) {
-                setTimeout(function() {
-                    done(errors.length ? new Error(errors.join(',')) : null);
-                }, 10);
-            }
-        };
-        var mapConfig = testClient.defaultTableMapConfig('test_table');
-        for (var i=0; i<numreq; ++i) {
-            testClient.createLayergroup(mapConfig, { server: server }, completed);
-        }
-    });
 });
diff --git a/test/integration/profiler.js b/test/integration/profiler.js
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..496a9d72
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/integration/profiler.js
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+require('../support/test_helper');
+
+var assert = require('assert');
+var StatsClient = require('../../lib/cartodb/stats/client');
+var ProfilerProxy = require('../../lib/cartodb/stats/profiler_proxy');
+
+describe('profiler + statsd', function() {
+    var statsInstance;
+
+    before(function() {
+        statsInstance = StatsClient.instance;
+        StatsClient.instance = null;
+    });
+
+    after(function() {
+        StatsClient.instance = statsInstance;
+    });
+
+    var statsdConfig = {
+        host: 'whoami.vizzuality.com',
+        port: 8125,
+        prefix: 'test.',
+        cacheDns: false
+        // support all allowed node-statsd options
+    };
+
+    // See https://github.com/CartoDB/Windshaft/issues/167
+    it('profiler does not throw uncaught exception on invalid host/port', function(done) {
+
+        var statsClient = StatsClient.getInstance(statsdConfig);
+        var profiler = new ProfilerProxy({profile: true, statsd_client: statsClient});
+
+        profiler.start('test');
+        profiler.done('wadus');
+        profiler.end();
+
+        profiler.sendStats();
+
+        // force a call to validate sendStats does not throw and uncaught exception
+        statsClient.timing('forced', 50, 1, function(err) {
+            assert.ok(err);
+            assert.equal(err.code, 'ENOTFOUND');
+            done();
+        });
+    });
+});