diff --git a/distributed/distributed.yaml b/distributed/distributed.yaml
index c36d0a21ea..c7cf8ac69e 100644
--- a/distributed/distributed.yaml
+++ b/distributed/distributed.yaml
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ distributed:
       ignore-modules:
         - asyncio
         - functools
+        - threading
         - datashader
         - dask
         - debugpy