diff --git a/build.sbt b/build.sbt
index 9be7cad84..e6b1af4ce 100644
--- a/build.sbt
+++ b/build.sbt
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ lazy val benchmarks = project
     IntegrationTest / parallelExecution := false,
     libraryDependencies ++= Seq(
         "com.typesafe.scala-logging" %% "scala-logging" % "3.9.5",
-        "io.dropwizard.metrics" % "metrics-core" % "4.2.27",
+        "io.dropwizard.metrics" % "metrics-core" % "4.2.28",
         "ch.qos.logback" % "logback-classic" % "1.2.13",
         "org.slf4j" % "log4j-over-slf4j" % slf4jVersion,
         // FIXME akka-stream-alpakka-csv removed for now, because of dependency cycle