diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index e136d59ebd..e3f679d785 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/gofrs/uuid v4.4.0+incompatible
 	github.com/joeshaw/multierror v0.0.0-20140124173710-69b34d4ec901
 	github.com/magefile/mage v1.15.0
-	github.com/shirou/gopsutil v3.21.11+incompatible
 	github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v3 v3.21.12
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.9.0
 	go.elastic.co/go-licence-detector v0.5.0
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index d7e0f2c3c0..b30fe7707e 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -96,8 +96,6 @@ github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.10.0/go.mod h1:UQnix2H7Ngw/k4C5ijL5+65zddjncj
 github.com/sergi/go-diff v1.0.0/go.mod h1:0CfEIISq7TuYL3j771MWULgwwjU+GofnZX9QAmXWZgo=
 github.com/sergi/go-diff v1.1.0 h1:we8PVUC3FE2uYfodKH/nBHMSetSfHDR6scGdBi+erh0=
 github.com/sergi/go-diff v1.1.0/go.mod h1:STckp+ISIX8hZLjrqAeVduY0gWCT9IjLuqbuNXdaHfM=
-github.com/shirou/gopsutil v3.21.11+incompatible h1:+1+c1VGhc88SSonWP6foOcLhvnKlUeu/erjjvaPEYiI=
-github.com/shirou/gopsutil v3.21.11+incompatible/go.mod h1:5b4v6he4MtMOwMlS0TUMTu2PcXUg8+E1lC7eC3UO/RA=
 github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v3 v3.21.12 h1:VoGxEW2hpmz0Vt3wUvHIl9fquzYLNpVpgNNB7pGJimA=
 github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v3 v3.21.12/go.mod h1:BToYZVTlSVlfazpDDYFnsVZLaoRG+g8ufT6fPQLdJzA=
 github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.9.3 h1:dueUQJ1C2q9oE3F7wvmSGAaVtTmUizReu6fjN8uqzbQ=
diff --git a/metric/system/process/process.go b/metric/system/process/process.go
index b74356a920..4a9151b61e 100644
--- a/metric/system/process/process.go
+++ b/metric/system/process/process.go
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import (
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
-	psutil "github.com/shirou/gopsutil/process"
+	psutil "github.com/shirou/gopsutil/v3/process"
 
 	"github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-libs/mapstr"
 	"github.com/elastic/elastic-agent-libs/opt"