diff --git a/vmpooler.gemspec b/vmpooler.gemspec
index 390ace0..3bf04d8 100644
--- a/vmpooler.gemspec
+++ b/vmpooler.gemspec
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-instrumentation-concurrent_ruby', '= 0.15.0'
   s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-instrumentation-redis', '= 0.15.0'
   s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-instrumentation-sinatra', '= 0.15.0'
-  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-resource_detectors', '= 0.15.0'
+  s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-resource_detectors', '= 0.16.0'
   s.add_dependency 'opentelemetry-sdk', '= 0.15.0'
   s.add_dependency 'pickup', '~> 0.0.11'
   s.add_dependency 'prometheus-client', '~> 2.0'