diff --git a/rootdir/init.rc b/rootdir/init.rc
index 01b7ca387..fdc9d3237 100644
--- a/rootdir/init.rc
+++ b/rootdir/init.rc
@@ -731,9 +731,10 @@ on post-fs-data
     mkdir /data/incremental 0771 system system encryption=Require
 
     # Create directories for statsd
-    mkdir /data/misc/stats-data/ 0770 statsd system
-    mkdir /data/misc/stats-service/ 0770 statsd system
     mkdir /data/misc/stats-active-metric/ 0770 statsd system
+    mkdir /data/misc/stats-data/ 0770 statsd system
+    mkdir /data/misc/stats-metadata/ 0770 statsd system
+    mkdir /data/misc/stats-service/ 0770 statsd system
     mkdir /data/misc/train-info/ 0770 statsd system
 
     # Wait for apexd to finish activating APEXes before starting more processes.