diff --git a/lib/dstat b/lib/dstat
index 8165e5c..740e48f 100644
--- a/lib/dstat
+++ b/lib/dstat
@@ -40,7 +40,10 @@
 
 # stop_dstat() stop dstat process
 function stop_dstat {
-    screen_stop dstat
+    # dstat runs as a console, not as a service, and isn't trackable
+    # via the normal mechanisms for devstack. So lets just do a
+    # killall and move on.
+    killall dstat || /bin/true
 }
 
 # Restore xtrace