diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index b4d5988a..5e73cb1b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ stevedore>=1.5.0 # Apache-2.0
 futures>=3.0;python_version=='2.7' or python_version=='2.6' # BSD
 
 # Backport for time.monotonic which is in 3.3+
-monotonic>=0.3 # Apache-2.0
+monotonic>=0.6 # Apache-2.0
 
 # Used for structured input validation
 jsonschema!=2.5.0,<3.0.0,>=2.0.0 # MIT