diff --git a/lib/private/constants/config-whitelist.constant.js b/lib/private/constants/config-whitelist.constant.js
index 533621a6..447d32ed 100644
--- a/lib/private/constants/config-whitelist.constant.js
+++ b/lib/private/constants/config-whitelist.constant.js
@@ -29,6 +29,6 @@ module.exports = [
   'authMechanism', 'compression', 'fsync', 'readPreferenceTags', 'numberOfRetries',
   'auto_reconnect', 'monitorCommands', 'minSize', 'useNewUrlParser', 'useUnifiedTopology',
   'localThresholdMS', 'serverSelectionTimeoutMS', 'heartbeatFrequencyMS', 'autoEncryption',
-  'driverInfo'
+  'driverInfo', 'appName'
 
 ];