diff --git a/dependency-versions/pom.xml b/dependency-versions/pom.xml
index 1b5052294d9..bdfd3298c58 100644
--- a/dependency-versions/pom.xml
+++ b/dependency-versions/pom.xml
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
         <commons.math3.vespa.version>3.6.1</commons.math3.vespa.version>
         <commons-compress.vespa.version>1.23.0</commons-compress.vespa.version>
         <curator.vespa.version>5.5.0</curator.vespa.version>
-        <dropwizard.metrics.vespa.version>3.2.6</dropwizard.metrics.vespa.version>
+        <dropwizard.metrics.vespa.version>4.2.19</dropwizard.metrics.vespa.version>
         <eclipse-collections.vespa.version>11.1.0</eclipse-collections.vespa.version>
         <felix.vespa.version>7.0.5</felix.vespa.version>
         <felix.log.vespa.version>1.0.1</felix.log.vespa.version>
diff --git a/vespa-dependencies-enforcer/allowed-maven-dependencies.txt b/vespa-dependencies-enforcer/allowed-maven-dependencies.txt
index e6ec1d2c5f6..38e87cbde25 100644
--- a/vespa-dependencies-enforcer/allowed-maven-dependencies.txt
+++ b/vespa-dependencies-enforcer/allowed-maven-dependencies.txt
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload:1.5
 commons-io:commons-io:2.13.0
 commons-logging:commons-logging:1.2
 io.airlift:airline:0.9
-io.dropwizard.metrics:metrics-core:3.2.6
+io.dropwizard.metrics:metrics-core:4.2.19
 io.grpc:grpc-context:1.27.2
 io.jsonwebtoken:jjwt-api:0.11.5
 io.jsonwebtoken:jjwt-impl:0.11.5