diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable-deps-bom/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bigtable-deps-bom/pom.xml
index c21963e7ae..fedb9c666b 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable-deps-bom/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable-deps-bom/pom.xml
@@ -73,7 +73,14 @@
       <dependency>
         <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
         <artifactId>google-cloud-monitoring-bom</artifactId>
-        <version>3.6.0</version>
+        <version>3.7.0</version>
+        <exclusions>
+          <exclusion>
+            <!-- using the perfmark version in opencensus -->
+            <groupId>io.perfmark</groupId>
+            <artifactId>perfmark-api</artifactId>
+          </exclusion>
+        </exclusions>
         <type>pom</type>
         <scope>import</scope>
       </dependency>
diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable-stats/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bigtable-stats/pom.xml
index 97f2f696ee..e05a351355 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable-stats/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable-stats/pom.xml
@@ -58,6 +58,11 @@
                     <groupId>com.google.http-client</groupId>
                     <artifactId>google-http-client</artifactId>
                 </exclusion>
+                <exclusion>
+                    <!-- using the perfmark version in opencensus -->
+                    <groupId>io.perfmark</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>perfmark-api</artifactId>
+                </exclusion>
             </exclusions>
         </dependency>
         <dependency>
diff --git a/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml b/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
index 96f6f005ac..e92a926f98 100644
--- a/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
+++ b/google-cloud-bigtable/pom.xml
@@ -268,6 +268,13 @@
     <dependency>
       <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
       <artifactId>google-cloud-monitoring</artifactId>
+      <exclusions>
+        <exclusion>
+          <!-- using the perfmark version in opencensus -->
+          <groupId>io.perfmark</groupId>
+          <artifactId>perfmark-api</artifactId>
+        </exclusion>
+      </exclusions>
       <scope>runtime</scope>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>