diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 510e35ee4..8956cf87a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ oslo.reports>=0.6.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.serialization>=1.10.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.service>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.utils>=3.4.0 # Apache-2.0
-osprofiler>=1.0.0 # Apache-2.0
+osprofiler!=1.0.0,>=0.4.0 # Apache-2.0
 oslo.versionedobjects>=1.4.0 # Apache-2.0
 PasteDeploy>=1.5.0 # MIT
 pycrypto>=2.6 # Public Domain