diff --git a/data/common/common.yaml b/data/common/common.yaml
--- a/data/common/common.yaml
+++ b/data/common/common.yaml
@@ -3129,6 +3129,8 @@
       specification:
         minute: fqdn_rand
 
+prometheus::statsd::exporter::version: 0.22.5
+prometheus::statsd::exporter::archive_sha256sum: b04a25fe937a2e74dab097d589bd1f4da9e874d62b166c4e74d5d55b0f58eab6
 prometheus::statsd::listen_network: "%{lookup('internal_network')}"
 prometheus::statsd::listen_port: 9102
 prometheus::statsd::defaults_config: {}
diff --git a/site-modules/profile/manifests/prometheus/statsd.pp b/site-modules/profile/manifests/prometheus/statsd.pp
--- a/site-modules/profile/manifests/prometheus/statsd.pp
+++ b/site-modules/profile/manifests/prometheus/statsd.pp
@@ -2,30 +2,51 @@
 class profile::prometheus::statsd {
   include profile::prometheus::base
 
-  $defaults_file = '/etc/default/prometheus-statsd-exporter'
-  $mapping_config_file = '/etc/prometheus/statsd_exporter_mapping.yml'
-
   package {'prometheus-statsd-exporter':
-    ensure => present,
-    notify => Service['prometheus-statsd-exporter'],
-  }
-
-  service {'prometheus-statsd-exporter':
-    ensure  => 'running',
-    enable  => true,
-    require => [
-      Package['prometheus-statsd-exporter'],
-      File[$defaults_file],
-    ]
+    ensure => 'purged',
+    notify => Class['systemd::systemctl::daemon_reload'],
   }
 
   ::systemd::dropin_file {'prometheus-statsd-exporter/restart.conf':
-    ensure   => present,
+    ensure   => absent,
     unit     => 'prometheus-statsd-exporter.service',
     filename => 'restart.conf',
-    content  => "[Service]\nRestart=always\nRestartSec=5\n",
   }
 
+  $version = lookup('prometheus::statsd::exporter::version')
+  $archive_sha256sum = lookup('prometheus::statsd::exporter::archive_sha256sum')
+
+  $exporter_name = "statsd_exporter"
+  $github_project = "prometheus/${exporter_name}"
+  $service_name = "prometheus-statsd-exporter"
+  $unit_name = "${service_name}.service"
+
+  $url = "https://github.com/${github_project}/releases/download/v${version}/${exporter_name}-${version}.linux-amd64.tar.gz"
+
+  $exporter_dir = "/opt/${service_name}-${version}"
+  $exporter_exe = "${exporter_dir}/${exporter_name}"
+
+  file {$exporter_dir:
+    ensure => 'directory',
+    owner  => 'root',
+    group  => 'root',
+    mode   => '0755',
+  }
+  -> archive { "/tmp/${exporter_name}.tar.gz":
+    source          => $url,
+    extract         => true,
+    extract_path    => $exporter_dir,
+    extract_command => 'tar xfz %s --strip-components=1',
+    checksum        => $archive_sha256sum,
+    checksum_type   => 'sha256',
+    creates         => $exporter_exe,
+    cleanup         => true,
+  }
+  -> file {$exporter_exe:}
+
+  $service_file = '/etc/systemd/system/prometheus-statsd-exporter.service'
+  $mapping_config_file = '/etc/prometheus/statsd_exporter_mapping.yml'
+
   $lookup_defaults_config = lookup('prometheus::statsd::defaults_config', Hash)
   $listen_network = lookup('prometheus::statsd::listen_network', Optional[String], 'first', undef)
   $listen_address = lookup('prometheus::statsd::listen_address', Optional[String], 'first', undef)
@@ -53,25 +74,29 @@
     }
   )
 
-  # Uses $defaults_config
-  file {$defaults_file:
-    ensure  => 'present',
-    owner   => 'root',
-    group   => 'root',
-    mode    => '0644',
-    content => template('profile/prometheus/statsd/prometheus-statsd-exporter.defaults.erb'),
-    require => Package['prometheus-statsd-exporter'],
-    notify  => Service['prometheus-statsd-exporter'],
-  }
-
   file {$mapping_config_file:
     ensure  => 'present',
     owner   => 'root',
     group   => 'root',
     mode    => '0644',
     content => inline_yaml($mapping_config),
-    require => Package['prometheus-statsd-exporter'],
-    notify  => Service['prometheus-statsd-exporter'],
+    notify  => Service[$service_name],
+  }
+
+  # uses $exporter_exe and $defaults_config
+  ::systemd::unit_file {$unit_name:
+    ensure   => present,
+    content  => template('profile/prometheus/statsd/prometheus-statsd-exporter.service.erb'),
+    require  => [
+      File[$exporter_exe],
+      File[$mapping_config_file],
+    ],
+  }
+
+  ~> service {$service_name:
+    ensure  => 'running',
+    enable  => true,
+    require => Class['systemd::systemctl::daemon_reload'],
   }
 
   profile::prometheus::export_scrape_config {'statsd':
diff --git a/site-modules/profile/templates/prometheus/statsd/prometheus-statsd-exporter.defaults.erb b/site-modules/profile/templates/prometheus/statsd/prometheus-statsd-exporter.defaults.erb
deleted file mode 100644
--- a/site-modules/profile/templates/prometheus/statsd/prometheus-statsd-exporter.defaults.erb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-# Set the command-line arguments to pass to the server.
-# Due to shell scaping, to pass backslashes for regexes, you need to double
-# them (\\d for \d). If running under systemd, you need to double them again
-# (\\\\d to mean \d), and escape newlines too.
-ARGS="\
-<%- scope.call_function('flatten_to_argument_list', [@defaults_config]).each do |argument| -%>
-    <%= argument %> \
-<%- end -%>
-"
-
-# Prometheus-statsd-exporter supports the following options:
-# --web.listen-address=":9102"
-#    The address on which to expose the web interface and generated Prometheus
-#    metrics.
-# --web.telemetry-path="/metrics"
-#    Path under which to expose metrics.
-# --statsd.listen-udp=":9125"
-#    The UDP address on which to receive statsd metric lines. "" disables it.
-# --statsd.listen-tcp=":9125"
-#    The TCP address on which to receive statsd metric lines. "" disables it.
-# --statsd.mapping-config=STATSD.MAPPING-CONFIG
-#    Metric mapping configuration file name.
-# --statsd.read-buffer=STATSD.READ-BUFFER
-#    Size (in bytes) of the operating system's transmit read buffer
-#    associated with the UDP connection. Please make sure the kernel
-#    parameters net.core.rmem_max is set to a value greater than the
-#    value specified.
-# --debug.dump-fsm=""
-#    The path to dump internal FSM generated for glob matching as Dot file.
-# --log.level="info"
-#    Only log messages with the given severity or above. Valid levels: [debug,
-#    info, warn, error, fatal]
-# --log.format="logger:stderr"
-#    Set the log target and format. Example: "logger:syslog?appname=bob&local=7"
-#    or "logger:stdout?json=true"
-
diff --git a/site-modules/profile/templates/prometheus/statsd/prometheus-statsd-exporter.service.erb b/site-modules/profile/templates/prometheus/statsd/prometheus-statsd-exporter.service.erb
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/site-modules/profile/templates/prometheus/statsd/prometheus-statsd-exporter.service.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Prometheus exporter for StatsD metrics
+Documentation=https://github.com/prometheus/statsd_exporter
+
+[Service]
+Restart=always
+ExecStart=<%= @exporter_exe %> <%= scope.call_function('flatten_to_argument_list', [@defaults_config]).join(' ') %>
+ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
+TimeoutStopSec=20s
+SendSIGKILL=no
+DynamicUser=yes
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target