diff --git a/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix b/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix
index aff562c00eb1..082b2732cc58 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/misc/ids.nix
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@
       iodined = 66;
       #libvirtd = 67; # unused
       graphite = 68;
-      statsd = 69;
+      #statsd = 69; # removed 2018-11-14
       transmission = 70;
       postgres = 71;
       #vboxusers = 72; # unused
@@ -411,7 +411,7 @@
       iodined = 66;
       libvirtd = 67;
       graphite = 68;
-      #statsd = 69; # unused
+      #statsd = 69; # removed 2018-11-14
       transmission = 70;
       postgres = 71;
       vboxusers = 72;
diff --git a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
index 5e50a105e1b2..0869125b7127 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/module-list.nix
@@ -452,7 +452,6 @@
   ./services/monitoring/riemann-tools.nix
   ./services/monitoring/scollector.nix
   ./services/monitoring/smartd.nix
-  ./services/monitoring/statsd.nix
   ./services/monitoring/sysstat.nix
   ./services/monitoring/systemhealth.nix
   ./services/monitoring/teamviewer.nix
diff --git a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
index 754a8ff20b26..fb6b7c938884 100644
--- a/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
+++ b/nixos/tests/all-tests.nix
@@ -190,7 +190,6 @@ in
   smokeping = handleTest ./smokeping.nix {};
   snapper = handleTest ./snapper.nix {};
   solr = handleTest ./solr.nix {};
-  #statsd = handleTest ./statsd.nix {}; # statsd is broken: #45946
   strongswan-swanctl = handleTest ./strongswan-swanctl.nix {};
   sudo = handleTest ./sudo.nix {};
   switchTest = handleTest ./switch-test.nix {};
diff --git a/nixos/tests/statsd.nix b/nixos/tests/statsd.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index 666961249ced..000000000000
--- a/nixos/tests/statsd.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,51 +0,0 @@
-import ./make-test.nix ({ pkgs, lib, ... }:
-
-with lib;
-
-{
-  name = "statsd";
-  meta = with pkgs.stdenv.lib.maintainers; {
-    maintainers = [ ma27 ];
-  };
-
-  machine = {
-    services.statsd.enable = true;
-    services.statsd.backends = [ "statsd-influxdb-backend" "console" ];
-    services.statsd.extraConfig = ''
-      influxdb: {
-        username: "root",
-        password: "root",
-        database: "statsd"
-      }
-    '';
-
-    services.influxdb.enable = true;
-
-    systemd.services.influx-init = {
-      description = "Setup Influx Test Base";
-      after = [ "influxdb.service" ];
-      before = [ "statsd.service" ];
-
-      script = ''
-        echo "CREATE DATABASE statsd" | ${pkgs.influxdb}/bin/influx
-      '';
-    };
-  };
-
-  testScript = ''
-    $machine->start();
-    $machine->waitForUnit("statsd.service");
-    $machine->waitForOpenPort(8126);
-
-    # check state of the `statsd` server
-    $machine->succeed('[ "health: up" = "$(echo health | nc 127.0.0.1 8126 -w 120 -N)" ];');
-
-    # confirm basic examples for metrics derived from docs:
-    # https://github.com/etsy/statsd/blob/v0.8.0/README.md#usage and
-    # https://github.com/etsy/statsd/blob/v0.8.0/docs/admin_interface.md
-    $machine->succeed("echo 'foo:1|c' | nc -u -w 0  127.0.0.1 8125");
-    $machine->succeed("echo counters | nc -w 120 127.0.0.1 8126 -N | grep foo");
-    $machine->succeed("echo 'delcounters foo' | nc -w 120 127.0.0.1 8126 -N");
-    $machine->fail("echo counters | nc -w 120 127.0.0.1 8126 -N | grep foo");
-  '';
-})
diff --git a/pkgs/development/node-packages/default-v8.nix b/pkgs/development/node-packages/default-v8.nix
index f7d3e3c908f8..288adceebeb0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/node-packages/default-v8.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/node-packages/default-v8.nix
@@ -90,12 +90,6 @@ nodePackages // {
     buildInputs = [ pkgs.automake pkgs.autoconf nodePackages.node-gyp-build ];
   };
 
-  statsd = nodePackages.statsd.override {
-    # broken with node v8, dead upstream,
-    # see #45946 and https://github.com/etsy/statsd/issues/646
-    meta.broken = true;
-  };
-
   webdrvr = nodePackages.webdrvr.override {
     buildInputs = [ pkgs.phantomjs ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages-v8.json b/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages-v8.json
index 23dfdb903060..662eb44740fe 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages-v8.json
+++ b/pkgs/development/node-packages/node-packages-v8.json
@@ -102,9 +102,6 @@
 , "snyk"
 , "socket.io"
 , "stackdriver-statsd-backend"
-, "statsd"
-, "statsd-influxdb-backend"
-, "statsd-librato-backend"
 , "svgo"
 , "swagger"
 , "tern"
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index b5a45a02084a..fc9803590ab1 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -19000,8 +19000,6 @@ with pkgs;
 
   stella = callPackage ../misc/emulators/stella { };
 
-  statsd = nodePackages.statsd;
-
   linuxstopmotion = callPackage ../applications/video/linuxstopmotion { };
 
   sweethome3d = recurseIntoAttrs (  (callPackage ../applications/misc/sweethome3d { })