diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index cf3c5b5c..6025df49 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     "log4js": "cartodb/log4js-node#cdb",
     "lru-cache": "2.6.5",
     "lzma": "~2.3.2",
-    "node-statsd": "~0.0.7",
+    "node-statsd": "0.1.1",
     "on-headers": "^1.0.1",
     "queue-async": "1.1.0",
     "redis-mpool": "0.5.0",
diff --git a/yarn.lock b/yarn.lock
index d0445d14..42c9e4ca 100644
--- a/yarn.lock
+++ b/yarn.lock
@@ -1574,9 +1574,9 @@ node-pre-gyp@~0.6.30, node-pre-gyp@~0.6.36, node-pre-gyp@~0.6.38:
     tar "^2.2.1"
     tar-pack "^3.4.0"
 
-node-statsd@~0.0.7:
-  version "0.0.7"
-  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/node-statsd/-/node-statsd-0.0.7.tgz#96d4bbd21dff2d798b3374a3e9329cfecce3afa8"
+node-statsd@0.1.1:
+  version "0.1.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/node-statsd/-/node-statsd-0.1.1.tgz#27a59348763d0af7a037ac2a031fef3f051013d3"
 
 nopt@3.x:
   version "3.0.6"