diff --git a/.scripts/upload_new_statsd_exporter_version.sh b/.scripts/upload_new_statsd_exporter_version.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..65684114a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.scripts/upload_new_statsd_exporter_version.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+VERSION=${1:?"Missing version number argument (arg 1)"}
+NEXUS_USER=${2:?"Missing Nexus username argument (arg 2)"}
+
+read -r -s -p "Nexus Password: " NEXUS_PASSWORD
+echo ""
+
+# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4632028/how-to-create-a-temporary-directory
+# Find the directory name of the script
+DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
+
+# the temp directory used, within $DIR
+WORK_DIR=$(mktemp -d -p "$DIR")
+
+# check if tmp dir was created
+if [[ ! "$WORK_DIR" || ! -d "$WORK_DIR" ]]; then
+  echo "Could not create temp dir"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# deletes the temp directory
+function cleanup {
+  rm -rf "$WORK_DIR"
+}
+
+# register the cleanup function to be called on the EXIT signal
+trap cleanup EXIT
+
+cd "$WORK_DIR" || exit
+
+# statsd_exporter does not currently publish signatures or SBOMs
+DOWNLOAD_URL="https://github.com/prometheus/statsd_exporter/archive/refs/tags/v$VERSION.tar.gz"
+
+echo "Downloading statsd_exporter source"
+if ! curl --fail -Ls -O "$DOWNLOAD_URL"; then
+  echo "Failed to download from $DOWNLOAD_URL"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+FILE_NAME="statsd_exporter-$VERSION.src.tar.gz"
+mv "v$VERSION.tar.gz" "$FILE_NAME"
+
+echo "Uploading statsd_exporter source to Nexus"
+if ! curl --fail -o /dev/null --progress-bar -u "$NEXUS_USER:$NEXUS_PASSWORD" --upload-file "$FILE_NAME" 'https://repo.stackable.tech/repository/packages/statsd_exporter/'; then
+  echo "Failed to upload statsd_exporter source to Nexus"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo "Successfully uploaded new version of statsd_exporter source ($VERSION) to Nexus"
+echo "https://repo.stackable.tech/service/rest/repository/browse/packages/statsd_exporter/"
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 18f8eb6da..8048100b5 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 - hadoop: Add precompiled hadoop for later reuse in dependent images ([#1466], [#1474]).
 - nifi: Add version `2.9.0` ([#1463]).
-- nifi: Remove `1.28.1`, deprecate `2.7.2` ([#1520]).
 - nifi: Backport NIFI-15801 to 2.x versions ([#1481]).
 - nifi: Backport NIFI-15901 to 2.x versions ([#1481]).
 - testing-tools: Added grpcurl utility ([#1493]).
@@ -20,9 +19,12 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ### Changed
 
-- hbase: Update `hbase-opa-authorizer` from `0.1.0` to `0.2.0` and then `0.3.0` ([#1446], [#1454]).
+- airflow: Bump statsd_exporter to `0.29.0` ([#1522]).
 - ci: Bump `docker/login-action` from `v3.6.0` to `v4.1.0` and `stackabletech/actions` to `v0.14.3` to escape Node.js 20 deprecation ([#1507]).
+- hbase: Update `hbase-opa-authorizer` from `0.1.0` to `0.2.0` and then `0.3.0` ([#1446], [#1454]).
 - stackable-base: Bump `containerdebug` to `0.4.0` and  `config-utils` to `0.4.0` ([#1521]).
+- statsd_exporter: Bump version from `0.28.0` to `0.29.0` ([#1522]).
+- superset: Bump statsd_exporter to `0.29.0` ([#1522]).
 
 ### Fixed
 
@@ -35,6 +37,7 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 ### Removed
 
+- nifi: Remove `1.28.1`, deprecate `2.7.2` ([#1520]).
 - opa: Remove `1.8.0` ([#1509]).
 
 [#1446]: https://github.com/stackabletech/docker-images/pull/1446
diff --git a/airflow/boil-config.toml b/airflow/boil-config.toml
index 7835a1352..8bb706053 100644
--- a/airflow/boil-config.toml
+++ b/airflow/boil-config.toml
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 # Deprecated since SDP 25.11
 [versions."2.9.3".local-images]
-"shared/statsd-exporter" = "0.28.0"
+"shared/statsd-exporter" = "0.29.0"
 vector = "0.55.0"
 stackable-devel = "1.0.0"
 
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ nodejs-version = "20"
 
 # LTS
 [versions."3.0.6".local-images]
-"shared/statsd-exporter" = "0.28.0"
+"shared/statsd-exporter" = "0.29.0"
 vector = "0.55.0"
 stackable-devel = "1.0.0"
 
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ nodejs-version = "20"
 
 # Supported
 [versions."3.1.6".local-images]
-"shared/statsd-exporter" = "0.28.0"
+"shared/statsd-exporter" = "0.29.0"
 vector = "0.55.0"
 stackable-devel = "1.0.0"
 
diff --git a/shared/statsd-exporter/boil-config.toml b/shared/statsd-exporter/boil-config.toml
index 408235597..47379e80f 100644
--- a/shared/statsd-exporter/boil-config.toml
+++ b/shared/statsd-exporter/boil-config.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [metadata]
 "oci.stackable.tech" = { namespace = "sdp" }
 
-[versions."0.28.0".local-images]
+[versions."0.29.0".local-images]
 stackable-base = "1.0.0"
diff --git a/superset/boil-config.toml b/superset/boil-config.toml
index 0d40123a9..9fc4d0368 100644
--- a/superset/boil-config.toml
+++ b/superset/boil-config.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 "oci.stackable.tech" = { namespace = "sdp" }
 
 [versions."4.1.4".local-images]
-"shared/statsd-exporter" = "0.28.0"
+"shared/statsd-exporter" = "0.29.0"
 stackable-devel = "1.0.0"
 vector = "0.55.0"
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ nodejs-version = "18.20.1"
 nvm-version = "v0.40.4"
 
 [versions."6.0.0".local-images]
-"shared/statsd-exporter" = "0.28.0"
+"shared/statsd-exporter" = "0.29.0"
 stackable-devel = "1.0.0"
 vector = "0.55.0"