diff --git a/.kitchen.yml b/.kitchen.yml
index 0d03362..69e82ae 100644
--- a/.kitchen.yml
+++ b/.kitchen.yml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ provisioner:
 
 platforms:
   - name: ubuntu-12.04
+  - name: centos-6.5
 
 suites:
   - name: default
diff --git a/metadata.rb b/metadata.rb
index a1956a6..a5dff97 100644
--- a/metadata.rb
+++ b/metadata.rb
@@ -11,3 +11,4 @@
 depends 'nodejs', '>= 0.5.2'
 
 supports 'ubuntu'
+supports 'centos', '~> 6.0'
diff --git a/templates/centos-6/upstart.conf.erb b/templates/centos-6/upstart.conf.erb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..34e9ba8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/templates/centos-6/upstart.conf.erb
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+# statsd - Network daemon for aggregating statistics
+#
+# This is a network service that receives metric data via UDP from other
+# applications. It aggregates this data and flushes it to a storage backend
+# (typically Graphite) at regular intervals.
+#
+description "Network daemon for aggregating statistics"
+author      "Librato"
+
+start on (local-filesystems and net-device-up IFACE!=lo)
+
+respawn
+respawn limit 10 5
+
+chdir <%= node['statsd']['path'] %>
+
+pre-start script
+    NODE_BIN=$(which nodejs || which node)
+    [ -n $NODE_BIN ] || { stop; exit 0; }
+end script
+
+script
+    NODE_BIN=$(which nodejs || which node)
+    su -s /bin/sh -c 'exec "$0" "$@"' <%= node['statsd']['user'] %> -- $NODE_BIN stats.js <%= node['statsd']['config_dir'] %>/config.js 2>&1 >> <%= node['statsd']['log_file'] %>
+end script
diff --git a/test/integration/default/serverspec/default_spec.rb b/test/integration/default/serverspec/default_spec.rb
index 17f23ca..794a3b5 100644
--- a/test/integration/default/serverspec/default_spec.rb
+++ b/test/integration/default/serverspec/default_spec.rb
@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 require 'serverspec'
 
 include Serverspec::Helper::Exec
-include Serverspec::Helper::DetectOS
+# Force Debian to properly detect statsd service for upstart on CentOS 6.
+include Serverspec::Helper::Debian
 
 RSpec.configure do |c|
   c.before :all do