diff --git a/app/lib/acts_as_forem_stats_driver.rb b/app/lib/acts_as_forem_stats_driver.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 7a89aa47d..000000000
--- a/app/lib/acts_as_forem_stats_driver.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-module ActsAsForemStatsDriver
-  extend ActiveSupport::Concern
-
-  class_methods do
-    def setup_driver
-      define_method(:initialize) do
-        @driver = yield
-      end
-    end
-  end
-
-  included do
-    delegate :count, :increment, :time, :gauge, to: :@driver
-  end
-end
diff --git a/app/lib/forem_stats_driver.rb b/app/lib/forem_stats_driver.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index 66aef96cf..000000000
--- a/app/lib/forem_stats_driver.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-class ForemStatsDriver
-  def initialize(*_args)
-    @driver = select_driver.new
-  end
-
-  delegate(:count, :increment, :time, :gauge, to: :@driver)
-
-  private
-
-  def select_driver
-    # Currently, this only supports the default Datadog driver.
-    # Logic will be added here for selecting the correct driver based on
-    # the existence of configuration files for the desired stats recipient.
-    ForemStatsDrivers::DatadogDriver
-  end
-end
diff --git a/app/lib/forem_stats_drivers/datadog_driver.rb b/app/lib/forem_stats_drivers/datadog_driver.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index ccde97e34..000000000
--- a/app/lib/forem_stats_drivers/datadog_driver.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-require "httpclient"
-require "rest-client"
-
-module ForemStatsDrivers
-  class DatadogDriver
-    include ActsAsForemStatsDriver
-
-    setup_driver do
-      Datadog.configure do |c|
-        c.tracer env: Rails.env
-        c.tracer enabled: ENV["DD_API_KEY"].present?
-        c.tracer partial_flush: true
-        c.tracer priority_sampling: true
-
-        c.use :concurrent_ruby
-        c.use :excon, split_by_domain: true
-        c.use :faraday, split_by_domain: true
-        c.use :http, split_by_domain: false
-        c.use :httpclient, split_by_domain: false
-        c.use :httprb, split_by_domain: true
-        c.use :rails
-
-        c.use :rest_client
-        c.use :sidekiq
-
-        # Multiple Redis integrations to split Redis usage per-instance to
-        # accommodate having a different Redis instance for each use case.
-
-        c.use :redis, service_name: "redis-rpush", describes: { url: ENV["REDIS_RPUSH_URL"] }
-        c.use :redis, service_name: "redis-sessions", describes: { url: ENV["REDIS_SESSIONS_URL"] }
-
-        # Sidekiq jobs that spin up thousands of other jobs end up consuming a
-        # *lot* of memory on instrumentation alone. This env var allows us to
-        # enable it only when needed.
-        if ENV["DD_ENABLE_REDIS_SIDEKIQ"] == "true"
-          c.use :redis, service_name: "redis-sidekiq", describes: { url: ENV["REDIS_SIDEKIQ_URL"] }
-        end
-
-        # Generic REDIS_URL comes last, allowing it to overwrite any of the
-        # above when multiple Redis use cases are backed by the same Redis URL.
-        c.use :redis, service_name: "redis", describes: { url: ENV["REDIS_URL"] }
-      end
-
-      Datadog::Statsd.new
-    end
-  end
-end
diff --git a/config/initializers/datadog.rb b/config/initializers/datadog.rb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f221a3e20
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/initializers/datadog.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+Datadog.configure do |c|
+  c.tracer env: Rails.env
+  c.tracer enabled: ENV["DD_API_KEY"].present?
+  c.tracer partial_flush: true
+  c.tracer priority_sampling: true
+
+  c.use :concurrent_ruby
+  c.use :excon, split_by_domain: true
+  c.use :faraday, split_by_domain: true
+  c.use :http, split_by_domain: false
+  c.use :httpclient, split_by_domain: false
+  c.use :httprb, split_by_domain: true
+  c.use :rails
+
+  c.use :rest_client
+  c.use :sidekiq
+
+  # Multiple Redis integrations to split Redis usage per-instance to
+  # accommodate having a different Redis instance for each use case.
+
+  c.use :redis, service_name: "redis-rpush", describes: { url: ENV["REDIS_RPUSH_URL"] }
+  c.use :redis, service_name: "redis-sessions", describes: { url: ENV["REDIS_SESSIONS_URL"] }
+
+  # Sidekiq jobs that spin up thousands of other jobs end up consuming a
+  # *lot* of memory on instrumentation alone. This env var allows us to
+  # enable it only when needed.
+  if ENV["DD_ENABLE_REDIS_SIDEKIQ"] == "true"
+    c.use :redis, service_name: "redis-sidekiq", describes: { url: ENV["REDIS_SIDEKIQ_URL"] }
+  end
+
+  # Generic REDIS_URL comes last, allowing it to overwrite any of the
+  # above when multiple Redis use cases are backed by the same Redis URL.
+  c.use :redis, service_name: "redis", describes: { url: ENV["REDIS_URL"] }
+end
+
+ForemStatsClient = Datadog::Statsd.new
diff --git a/config/initializers/stats.rb b/config/initializers/stats.rb
deleted file mode 100644
index e035a77bc..000000000
--- a/config/initializers/stats.rb
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-ForemStatsClient = ForemStatsDriver.new