diff --git a/src/monitoring/requirements.in b/src/monitoring/requirements.in
index 8ceddf2168809ec6407f717f4a197daee16b104f..456ae2a4ab636f9c104bc084af3c82da5b5ab9ea 100644
--- a/src/monitoring/requirements.in
+++ b/src/monitoring/requirements.in
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ redis==4.1.2
 requests==2.27.1
 xmltodict==0.12.0
 questdb==1.0.1
-apscheduler=3.9.1
+apscheduler==3.9.1
 
 # pip's dependency resolver does not take into account installed packages.
 # p4runtime does not specify the version of grpcio/protobuf it needs, so it tries to install latest one