diff --git a/modules/jenkins/manifests/params.pp b/modules/jenkins/manifests/params.pp
index 6dbe0dbcd0..2ef1ee35ca 100644
--- a/modules/jenkins/manifests/params.pp
+++ b/modules/jenkins/manifests/params.pp
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ class jenkins::params {
       $mod_wsgi_package = 'mod_wsgi'
       $libcurl_dev_package = 'libcurl-devel'
       $ldap_dev_package = 'openldap-devel'
+      $librrd_dev_package = 'rrdtool-devel'
       # packages needed by document translation
       $gnome_doc_package = 'gnome-doc-utils'
       # for keystone ldap auth integration
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@ class jenkins::params {
       $mod_wsgi_package = 'libapache2-mod-wsgi'
       $libcurl_dev_package = 'libcurl4-gnutls-dev'
       $ldap_dev_package = 'libldap2-dev'
+      $librrd_dev_package = 'librrd-dev'
       # packages needed by document translation
       $gnome_doc_package = 'gnome-doc-utils'
       # for keystone ldap auth integration
diff --git a/modules/jenkins/manifests/slave.pp b/modules/jenkins/manifests/slave.pp
index 452815f4de..9130deeb84 100644
--- a/modules/jenkins/manifests/slave.pp
+++ b/modules/jenkins/manifests/slave.pp
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ class jenkins::slave(
     $::jenkins::params::mod_wsgi_package,
     $::jenkins::params::libcurl_dev_package,
     $::jenkins::params::ldap_dev_package,
+    $::jenkins::params::librrd_dev_package, # for python-rrdtool, used by kwapi
     $::jenkins::params::libsasl_dev, # for keystone ldap auth integration
     $::jenkins::params::mongodb_package, # for ceilometer unit tests
     $::jenkins::params::mysql_dev_package,