diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index b33e4ea..837750b 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 
 	<properties>
 		<prometheus.version>0.6.0</prometheus.version>
-		<jmeter.version>5.1.1</jmeter.version>
+		<jmeter.version>5.5</jmeter.version>
 		<maven.compiler.source>1.8</maven.compiler.source>
 		<maven.compiler.target>1.8</maven.compiler.target>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
@@ -77,6 +77,23 @@
 			<version>${jmeter.version}</version>
 			<scope>test</scope>
 		</dependency>
+		<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.jmeter/ApacheJMeter_components -->
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.jmeter</groupId>
+			<artifactId>ApacheJMeter_components</artifactId>
+			<version>${jmeter.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.commons/commons-lang3 -->
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
+			<artifactId>commons-lang3</artifactId>
+			<version>3.12.0</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
+			<artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
+			<version>2.0.7</version>
+		</dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>io.prometheus</groupId>
 			<artifactId>simpleclient</artifactId>
@@ -124,7 +141,7 @@
 			<plugin>
 				<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
 				<artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
-				<version>3.0.0-M3</version>
+				<version>3.1.0</version>
 				<configuration>
 					<parallel>methods</parallel>
 					<threadCount>4</threadCount>
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/johrstrom/listener/updater/AbstractUpdater.java b/src/main/java/com/github/johrstrom/listener/updater/AbstractUpdater.java
index b2400a6..1db3af3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/johrstrom/listener/updater/AbstractUpdater.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/johrstrom/listener/updater/AbstractUpdater.java
@@ -73,24 +73,26 @@ protected String[] labelValues(SampleEvent event) {
 		String[] values =  new String[labels.length];
 		JMeterVariables vars = JMeterContextService.getContext().getVariables();
 		
-		for(int i = 0; i < labels.length; i++) {
+		for (int i = 0; i < labels.length; i++) {
 			String name = labels[i];
 			String value = null;
 			
 			// reserved keyword for the sampler's label (the name)
-			if(name.equalsIgnoreCase("label")) { 
+			if (name.equalsIgnoreCase("label")) {
 				value = event.getResult().getSampleLabel();
-		
-			} else if(name.equalsIgnoreCase("code")) {	// code also reserved
+			} else if (name.equalsIgnoreCase("code")) {
+				// code also reserved
 				value = event.getResult().getResponseCode();
+			} else if (name.equalsIgnoreCase("threadGroup")) {
+				value = event.getThreadGroup();
 				
 			// try to find it as a plain'ol variable.
-			} else if (this.varIndexLookup.get(name) != null){
+			} else if (this.varIndexLookup.get(name) != null) {
 				int idx = this.varIndexLookup.get(name);
 				value = event.getVarValue(idx);
 			
 			// lastly look in sample_variables
-			}else if (vars != null){
+			} else if (vars != null) {
 				value = vars.get(name);
 			}