diff --git a/ui/app/components/allocation-row.js b/ui/app/components/allocation-row.js
index 088c07a82..c173b794c 100644
--- a/ui/app/components/allocation-row.js
+++ b/ui/app/components/allocation-row.js
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
+import Ember from 'ember';
 import { inject as service } from '@ember/service';
 import Component from '@ember/component';
 import { run } from '@ember/runloop';
 import { lazyClick } from '../helpers/lazy-click';
+import { task, timeout } from 'ember-concurrency';
 
 export default Component.extend({
   store: service(),
@@ -15,6 +17,10 @@ export default Component.extend({
   // Used to determine whether the row should mention the node or the job
   context: null,
 
+  // Internal state
+  stats: null,
+  statsError: false,
+
   onClick() {},
 
   click(event) {
@@ -45,8 +51,32 @@ export default Component.extend({
     // being resolved through the store (store.findAll('job')). The
     // workaround is to persist the jobID as a string on the allocation
     // and manually re-link the two records here.
+    const allocation = this.get('allocation');
+
+    if (allocation) {
+      this.get('fetchStats').perform(allocation);
+    } else {
+      this.get('fetchStats').cancelAll();
+      this.set('stats', null);
+    }
     run.scheduleOnce('afterRender', this, qualifyJob);
   },
+
+  fetchStats: task(function*(allocation) {
+    const maxTiming = 5500;
+    const backoffSequence = [500, 800, 1300, 2100, 3400];
+
+    do {
+      try {
+        const stats = yield allocation.fetchStats();
+        this.set('stats', stats);
+      } catch (error) {
+        this.set('statsError', true);
+        break;
+      }
+      yield timeout(backoffSequence.shift() || maxTiming);
+    } while (!Ember.testing);
+  }).drop(),
 });
 
 function qualifyJob() {
diff --git a/ui/app/models/allocation.js b/ui/app/models/allocation.js
index fe6cd2d62..6d85ae85f 100644
--- a/ui/app/models/allocation.js
+++ b/ui/app/models/allocation.js
@@ -1,13 +1,11 @@
 import { inject as service } from '@ember/service';
-import { readOnly } from '@ember/object/computed';
 import { computed } from '@ember/object';
-import RSVP from 'rsvp';
 import Model from 'ember-data/model';
 import attr from 'ember-data/attr';
 import { belongsTo } from 'ember-data/relationships';
 import { fragment, fragmentArray } from 'ember-data-model-fragments/attributes';
-import PromiseObject from '../utils/classes/promise-object';
 import shortUUIDProperty from '../utils/properties/short-uuid';
+import AllocationStats from '../utils/classes/allocation-stats';
 
 const STATUS_ORDER = {
   pending: 1,
@@ -56,48 +54,17 @@ export default Model.extend({
     return taskGroups && taskGroups.findBy('name', this.get('taskGroupName'));
   }),
 
-  memoryUsed: readOnly('stats.ResourceUsage.MemoryStats.RSS'),
-  cpuUsed: computed('stats.ResourceUsage.CpuStats.TotalTicks', function() {
-    return Math.floor(this.get('stats.ResourceUsage.CpuStats.TotalTicks') || 0);
-  }),
-
-  percentMemory: computed('taskGroup.reservedMemory', 'memoryUsed', function() {
-    const used = this.get('memoryUsed') / 1024 / 1024;
-    const total = this.get('taskGroup.reservedMemory');
-    if (!total || !used) {
-      return 0;
-    }
-    return used / total;
-  }),
-
-  percentCPU: computed('cpuUsed', 'taskGroup.reservedCPU', function() {
-    const used = this.get('cpuUsed');
-    const total = this.get('taskGroup.reservedCPU');
-    if (!total || !used) {
-      return 0;
-    }
-    return used / total;
-  }),
-
-  stats: computed('node.{isPartial,httpAddr}', function() {
-    const nodeIsPartial = this.get('node.isPartial');
-
-    // If the node doesn't have an httpAddr, it's a partial record.
-    // Once it reloads, this property will be dirtied and stats will load.
-    if (nodeIsPartial) {
-      return PromiseObject.create({
-        // Never resolve, so the promise object is always in a state of pending
-        promise: new RSVP.Promise(() => {}),
+  fetchStats() {
+    return this.get('token')
+      .authorizedRequest(`/v1/client/allocation/${this.get('id')}/stats`)
+      .then(res => res.json())
+      .then(json => {
+        return new AllocationStats({
+          stats: json,
+          allocation: this,
+        });
       });
-    }
-
-    const url = `/v1/client/allocation/${this.get('id')}/stats`;
-    return PromiseObject.create({
-      promise: this.get('token')
-        .authorizedRequest(url)
-        .then(res => res.json()),
-    });
-  }),
+  },
 
   states: fragmentArray('task-state'),
 });
diff --git a/ui/app/templates/components/allocation-row.hbs b/ui/app/templates/components/allocation-row.hbs
index 7656960e5..305a89372 100644
--- a/ui/app/templates/components/allocation-row.hbs
+++ b/ui/app/templates/components/allocation-row.hbs
@@ -23,37 +23,41 @@
   <td data-test-job-version>{{allocation.jobVersion}}</td>
 {{/if}}
 <td data-test-cpu class="has-text-centered">
-  {{#if allocation.stats.isPending}}
+  {{#if (and (not stats) fetchStats.isRunning)}}
     ...
-  {{else if allocation.stats.isRejected}}
-    <span class="tooltip text-center" aria-label="Couldn't connect to client">
+  {{else if (not allocation)}}
+    {{! nothing when there's no allocation}}
+  {{else if statsError}}
+    <span class="tooltip text-center" aria-label="Couldn't collect stats">
       {{x-icon "warning" class="is-warning"}}
     </span>
   {{else}}
-    <div class="inline-chart tooltip" aria-label="{{allocation.cpuUsed}} / {{allocation.taskGroup.reservedCPU}} MHz">
+    <div class="inline-chart tooltip" aria-label="{{stats.cpuUsed}} / {{stats.reservedCPU}} MHz">
       <progress
         class="progress is-info is-small"
-        value="{{allocation.percentCPU}}"
+        value="{{stats.percentCPU}}"
         max="1">
-        {{allocation.percentCPU}}
+        {{stats.percentCPU}}
       </progress>
     </div>
   {{/if}}
 </td>
 <td data-test-mem class="has-text-centered">
-  {{#if allocation.stats.isPending}}
+  {{#if (and (not stats) fetchStats.isRunning)}}
     ...
-  {{else if allocation.stats.isRejected}}
-    <span class="tooltip text-center" aria-label="Couldn't connect to client">
+  {{else if (not allocation)}}
+    {{! nothing when there's no allocation}}
+  {{else if statsError}}
+    <span class="tooltip text-center" aria-label="Couldn't collect stats">
       {{x-icon "warning" class="is-warning"}}
     </span>
   {{else}}
-    <div class="inline-chart tooltip" aria-label="{{format-bytes allocation.memoryUsed}} / {{allocation.taskGroup.reservedMemory}} MiB">
+    <div class="inline-chart tooltip" aria-label="{{format-bytes stats.memoryUsed}} / {{stats.reservedMemory}} MiB">
       <progress
         class="progress is-danger is-small"
-        value="{{allocation.percentMemory}}"
+        value="{{stats.percentMemory}}"
         max="1">
-        {{allocation.percentMemory}}
+        {{stats.percentMemory}}
       </progress>
     </div>
   {{/if}}
diff --git a/ui/app/utils/classes/allocation-stats.js b/ui/app/utils/classes/allocation-stats.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..463affbb4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ui/app/utils/classes/allocation-stats.js
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import EmberObject, { computed } from '@ember/object';
+import { alias, readOnly } from '@ember/object/computed';
+
+export default EmberObject.extend({
+  allocation: null,
+  stats: null,
+
+  reservedMemory: alias('allocation.taskGroup.reservedMemory'),
+  reservedCPU: alias('allocation.taskGroup.reservedCPU'),
+
+  memoryUsed: readOnly('stats.ResourceUsage.MemoryStats.RSS'),
+  cpuUsed: computed('stats.ResourceUsage.CpuStats.TotalTicks', function() {
+    return Math.floor(this.get('stats.ResourceUsage.CpuStats.TotalTicks') || 0);
+  }),
+
+  percentMemory: computed('reservedMemory', 'memoryUsed', function() {
+    const used = this.get('memoryUsed') / 1024 / 1024;
+    const total = this.get('reservedMemory');
+    if (!total || !used) {
+      return 0;
+    }
+    return used / total;
+  }),
+
+  percentCPU: computed('reservedCPU', 'cpuUsed', function() {
+    const used = this.get('cpuUsed');
+    const total = this.get('reservedCPU');
+    if (!total || !used) {
+      return 0;
+    }
+    return used / total;
+  }),
+});