diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index fff069693..e5478f2b2 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ gem "carrierwave", "~> 2.2" # Upload files in your Ruby applications, map them t
 gem "carrierwave-bombshelter", "~> 0.2" # Protect your carrierwave from image bombs
 gem "cloudinary", "~> 1.20" # Client library for easily using the Cloudinary service
 gem "counter_culture", "~> 2.8" # counter_culture provides turbo-charged counter caches that are kept up-to-date
-gem "ddtrace", "~> 0.47.0" # ddtrace is Datadog’s tracing client for Ruby.
+gem "ddtrace", "~> 0.49.0" # ddtrace is Datadog’s tracing client for Ruby.
 gem "devise", "~> 4.8" # Flexible authentication solution for Rails
 gem "devise_invitable", "~> 2.0.5" # 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 bb5b50f83..059cf9815 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -183,7 +183,8 @@ GEM
       puma (>= 3.8.0)
       railties (>= 5.2.0)
     dante (0.2.0)
-    ddtrace (0.47.0)
+    ddtrace (0.49.0)
+      ffi (~> 1.0)
       msgpack
     dead_end (1.1.7)
     debug_inspector (1.1.0)
@@ -867,7 +868,7 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   cloudinary (~> 1.20)
   counter_culture (~> 2.8)
   cypress-rails (~> 0.5.0)
-  ddtrace (~> 0.47.0)
+  ddtrace (~> 0.49.0)
   derailed_benchmarks (~> 2.1)
   devise (~> 4.8)
   devise_invitable (~> 2.0.5)
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