diff --git a/tasks/dogstatsd.py b/tasks/dogstatsd.py
index 084c8cf76fa76..45fc397cb81e5 100644
--- a/tasks/dogstatsd.py
+++ b/tasks/dogstatsd.py
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 # constants
 DOGSTATSD_BIN_PATH = os.path.join(".", "bin", "dogstatsd")
 STATIC_BIN_PATH = os.path.join(".", "bin", "static")
-MAX_BINARY_SIZE = 39 * 1024
+MAX_BINARY_SIZE = 42 * 1024
 DOGSTATSD_TAG = "datadog/dogstatsd:master"