diff --git a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/node-exporter.nix b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/node-exporter.nix
index 02a6197d3846..bb86e59e4c33 100644
--- a/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/node-exporter.nix
+++ b/pkgs/servers/monitoring/prometheus/node-exporter.nix
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
-{ stdenv, buildGoPackage, fetchFromGitHub }:
+{ stdenv, buildGo19Package, fetchFromGitHub }:
 
-buildGoPackage rec {
+# Go 1.10 causes segfaults:
+# https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/issues/870
+buildGo19Package rec {
   name = "node_exporter-${version}";
   version = "0.16.0";
   rev = "v${version}";