diff --git a/google-cloud-clients/pom.xml b/google-cloud-clients/pom.xml
index 67d39e69745e..39932bb7aed9 100644
--- a/google-cloud-clients/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-clients/pom.xml
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@
     <oauth-client.version>1.30.1</oauth-client.version>
     <protobuf.version>3.7.1</protobuf.version>
     <!-- make sure to keep opencensus version in sync with grpc -->
-    <opencensus.version>0.21.0</opencensus.version>
+    <opencensus.version>0.23.0</opencensus.version>
     <!-- make sure to keep version in sync with google-http-client -->
     <apache.httpclient.version>4.5.5</apache.httpclient.version>
     <!-- test dependency versions -->