diff --git a/gnu/packages/perl.scm b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
index 309deb5e42..d422940447 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/perl.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/perl.scm
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Alex Sassmannshausen <alex@pompo.co>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Ben Woodcroft <donttrustben@gmail.com>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@gnu.org>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -4365,6 +4366,28 @@ cycle.  Functions called in the package itself will still be bound by their
 name, but they won't show up as methods on your class or instances.")
     (license (package-license perl))))
 
+(define-public perl-net-statsd
+  (package
+   (name "perl-net-statsd")
+   (version "0.12")
+   (source
+    (origin
+      (method url-fetch)
+      (uri (string-append
+            "mirror://cpan/authors/id/C/CO/COSIMO/Net-Statsd-"
+            version
+            ".tar.gz"))
+      (sha256
+       (base32
+        "0p2nhrwamic2fyj094y583q088ixv9gbb82c3invqrd17mh57r33"))))
+   (build-system perl-build-system)
+   (home-page
+    "http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-Statsd")
+   (synopsis "Perl client for Etsy's statsd daemon")
+   (description "This module implement a UDP client for the statsd statistics
+collector daemon in use at Etsy.com.")
+   (license (package-license perl))))
+
 (define-public perl-number-compare
   (package
     (name "perl-number-compare")