diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 849f964ec..434988939 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4504,6 +4504,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "clap",
  "futures",
  "humantime",
+ "jemallocator",
  "sentry",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
diff --git a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/metrics.rs b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/metrics.rs
index 0283f5db3..70e651db5 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator-service/src/metrics.rs
+++ b/crates/symbolicator-service/src/metrics.rs
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ use std::collections::BTreeMap;
 use std::net::ToSocketAddrs;
 use std::sync::OnceLock;
 
-use cadence::{StatsdClient, UdpMetricSink};
+use cadence::{BufferedUdpMetricSink, QueuingMetricSink, StatsdClient};
 
 static METRICS_CLIENT: OnceLock<StatsdClient> = OnceLock::new();
 
@@ -20,8 +20,9 @@ pub fn configure_statsd<A: ToSocketAddrs>(prefix: &str, host: A, tags: BTreeMap<
     }
     let socket = std::net::UdpSocket::bind("0.0.0.0:0").unwrap();
     socket.set_nonblocking(true).unwrap();
-    let sink = UdpMetricSink::from(&addrs[..], socket).unwrap();
-    let mut builder = StatsdClient::builder(prefix, sink);
+    let udp_sink = BufferedUdpMetricSink::from(&addrs[..], socket).unwrap();
+    let queuing_sink = QueuingMetricSink::from(udp_sink);
+    let mut builder = StatsdClient::builder(prefix, queuing_sink);
     for (key, value) in tags {
         builder = builder.with_tag(key, value)
     }
diff --git a/crates/symbolicator-stress/Cargo.toml b/crates/symbolicator-stress/Cargo.toml
index e1cf12222..72475e14e 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator-stress/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/symbolicator-stress/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,3 +21,6 @@ symbolicator-test = { path = "../symbolicator-test" }
 tempfile = "3.2.0"
 tokio = { version = "1.24.2", features = ["rt-multi-thread", "macros", "time", "sync"] }
 tracing-subscriber = "0.3.17"
+
+[target.'cfg(not(target_env = "msvc"))'.dependencies]
+jemallocator = { version = "0.5", features = ["unprefixed_malloc_on_supported_platforms"] }
diff --git a/crates/symbolicator-stress/src/logging.rs b/crates/symbolicator-stress/src/logging.rs
index 71e240586..2a50a2a1c 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator-stress/src/logging.rs
+++ b/crates/symbolicator-stress/src/logging.rs
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ use std::collections::BTreeMap;
 use std::env;
 use std::future::Future;
 use std::io::Write;
-use std::net::{SocketAddr, TcpListener};
+use std::net::{SocketAddr, TcpListener, UdpSocket};
 use std::pin::Pin;
 
 use symbolicator_service::metrics;
@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ pub struct Config {
 #[derive(Default)]
 pub struct Guard {
     sentry: Option<sentry::ClientInitGuard>,
-    pub sentry_server: Option<Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = ()> + Send>>>,
-    // TODO: return the ports / futures of the http / upd servers to use
+    pub http_sink: Option<Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = ()> + Send>>>,
+    pub udp_sink: Option<Pin<Box<dyn Future<Output = ()> + Send>>>,
 }
 
 pub fn init(config: Config) -> Guard {
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ pub fn init(config: Config) -> Guard {
         listener.set_nonblocking(true).unwrap();
         let socket = listener.local_addr().unwrap();
 
-        guard.sentry_server = Some(Box::pin(async move {
+        guard.http_sink = Some(Box::pin(async move {
             async fn ok() -> &'static str {
                 "OK"
             }
@@ -86,7 +86,21 @@ pub fn init(config: Config) -> Guard {
     }
 
     if config.metrics {
-        let host = "TODO"; // create a *real* noop udp server to send metrics to
+        let addr = SocketAddr::from(([127, 0, 0, 1], 0));
+        let listener = UdpSocket::bind(addr).unwrap();
+        listener.set_nonblocking(true).unwrap();
+        let socket = listener.local_addr().unwrap();
+
+        guard.udp_sink = Some(Box::pin(async move {
+            let listener = tokio::net::UdpSocket::from_std(listener).unwrap();
+            let mut buf = Vec::with_capacity(1024);
+            loop {
+                buf.clear();
+                let _len = listener.recv_buf(&mut buf).await.unwrap();
+            }
+        }));
+
+        let host = format!("127.0.0.1:{}", socket.port());
 
         // have some default tags, just to be closer to the real world config
         let mut tags = BTreeMap::new();
diff --git a/crates/symbolicator-stress/src/main.rs b/crates/symbolicator-stress/src/main.rs
index 3bafdca9e..6280a9cfb 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator-stress/src/main.rs
+++ b/crates/symbolicator-stress/src/main.rs
@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ mod workloads;
 use stresstest::perform_stresstest;
 use workloads::WorkloadsConfig;
 
+#[cfg(not(target_env = "msvc"))]
+use jemallocator::Jemalloc;
+
+#[cfg(not(target_env = "msvc"))]
+#[global_allocator]
+static GLOBAL: Jemalloc = Jemalloc;
+
 /// Command line interface parser.
 #[derive(Parser)]
 struct Cli {
@@ -47,8 +54,7 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
         backtraces: true,
         tracing: true,
         sentry: true,
-        // TODO: init metrics
-        ..Default::default()
+        metrics: true,
     });
 
     let megs = 1024 * 1024;
@@ -57,8 +63,11 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
         .thread_stack_size(8 * megs)
         .build()?;
 
-    if let Some(sentry_server) = logging_guard.sentry_server.take() {
-        runtime.spawn(sentry_server);
+    if let Some(http_sink) = logging_guard.http_sink.take() {
+        runtime.spawn(http_sink);
+    }
+    if let Some(udp) = logging_guard.udp_sink.take() {
+        runtime.spawn(udp);
     }
 
     runtime.block_on(perform_stresstest(service_config, workloads, cli.duration))?;
diff --git a/crates/symbolicator-stress/src/stresstest.rs b/crates/symbolicator-stress/src/stresstest.rs
index ea4e35083..d04189042 100644
--- a/crates/symbolicator-stress/src/stresstest.rs
+++ b/crates/symbolicator-stress/src/stresstest.rs
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ pub async fn perform_stresstest(
         let (concurrency, ops) = task.unwrap();
 
         let ops_ps = ops as f32 / duration.as_secs() as f32;
-        println!("Workload {i} (concurrency: {concurrency}): {ops} operations, {ops_ps} ops/s");
+        println!("Workload {i} (concurrency: {concurrency}): {ops} operations, {ops_ps:.2} ops/s");
     }
 
     Ok(())