diff --git a/vespa-dependencies-enforcer/allowed-maven-dependencies.txt b/vespa-dependencies-enforcer/allowed-maven-dependencies.txt
index 830cba715e1..6b930311df0 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