diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 3b72841..6df9098 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ pystache==0.5.4
 # we are using distutils2 only for the version library since verlib doesn't have a license.
 distutils2==1.0a4
 httplib2>=0.9
-psutil==1.2.1
+psutil==5.6.6
 google-api-python-client==1.2
 
 azure-mgmt-compute==1.0.0