diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 2036733d7..1838846bf 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ gem "carrierwave-bombshelter", "~> 0.2" # Protect your carrierwave from image bo
 gem "cld", "~> 0.8" # Compact Language Detection for Ruby
 gem "cloudinary", "~> 1.18" # Client library for easily using the Cloudinary service
 gem "counter_culture", "~> 2.7" # counter_culture provides turbo-charged counter caches that are kept up-to-date
-gem "ddtrace", "~> 0.43.0" # ddtrace is Datadog’s tracing client for Ruby.
+gem "ddtrace", "~> 0.44.0" # ddtrace is Datadog’s tracing client for Ruby.
 gem "devise", "~> 4.7" # Flexible authentication solution for Rails
 gem "devise_invitable", "~> 2.0.3" # Allows invitations to be sent for joining
 gem "dogstatsd-ruby", "~> 4.8" # A client for DogStatsD, an extension of the StatsD metric server for Datadog
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index b770edc72..7fa2b51f5 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ GEM
     database_cleaner-active_record (1.8.0)
       activerecord
       database_cleaner (~> 1.8.0)
-    ddtrace (0.43.0)
+    ddtrace (0.44.0)
       msgpack
     debug_inspector (0.0.3)
     derailed_benchmarks (1.8.1)
@@ -861,7 +861,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   cloudinary (~> 1.18)
   counter_culture (~> 2.7)
   database_cleaner-active_record (~> 1.8.0)
-  ddtrace (~> 0.43.0)
+  ddtrace (~> 0.44.0)
   derailed_benchmarks (~> 1.8)
   devise (~> 4.7)
   devise_invitable (~> 2.0.3)
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