diff --git a/requirements-micro.txt b/requirements-micro.txt
index 3c5deb6e..a0fb09b8 100644
--- a/requirements-micro.txt
+++ b/requirements-micro.txt
@@ -7,4 +7,5 @@ psutil                # for logging extra CPU-info
 colorhash             # for hashing a string into a color
 numpy                 # for computing median and other stats
 pytz                  # for timezone info
+requests==2.31.0      # for telemetry data posting
 tzlocal==2.0          # for figuring out the local timezone; frozen to 2.0 because 3.0 conflicts the latest version of appscheduler (as of jan.2020)