diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9112f2780..d4721a43e 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
     'configparser>=3.5.0',
     'mock>=2.0.0',
     'future>=0.16.0',
-    'google-cloud>=0.30.0',
+    'google-cloud-monitoring==0.28.0',
     'google-api-python-client>=1.6.2',
     'seaborn>=0.7.0',
     'plotly>=1.12.5',