diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index b23ff409..8c966959 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Enhancements:
  - Do not UNWATCH on every redis client release (#161)
  - Include API docs (#164)
  - Add "cacheDns" statsd setting in the example configs
+ - Do not send duplicated stats on template instanciation
 
 Bug fixes:
 
diff --git a/lib/cartodb/cartodb_windshaft.js b/lib/cartodb/cartodb_windshaft.js
index 7038989a..0f7dead2 100644
--- a/lib/cartodb/cartodb_windshaft.js
+++ b/lib/cartodb/cartodb_windshaft.js
@@ -603,9 +603,6 @@ var CartodbWindshaft = function(serverOptions) {
         } else {
           ws.sendResponse(res, [response, 200]);
         }
-        if ( req.profiler && req.profiler.statsd_client) {
-          req.profiler.sendStats();
-        }
     }
 
     ws.post(template_baseurl + '/:template_id', function(req, res) {