diff --git a/upper-constraints.txt b/upper-constraints.txt
index 7dbc432520..ff0b023eb8 100644
--- a/upper-constraints.txt
+++ b/upper-constraints.txt
@@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ gitdb2===2.0.3
 requests-kerberos===0.11.0
 itsdangerous===0.24
 XStatic-jquery-ui===1.12.0.1
-monasca-statsd===1.7.0
+monasca-statsd===1.8.0
 python-dateutil===2.6.1
 virtualenv===15.1.0
 colorama===0.3.9