diff --git a/manifest.yml.j2 b/manifest.yml.j2
index cceff3ee5..62fa0d0d0 100644
--- a/manifest.yml.j2
+++ b/manifest.yml.j2
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ applications:
       SECRET_KEY: '{{ SECRET_KEY }}'
       ROUTE_SECRET_KEY_1: '{{ ROUTE_SECRET_KEY_1 }}'
       ROUTE_SECRET_KEY_2: '{{ ROUTE_SECRET_KEY_2 }}'
+      METRICS_BASIC_AUTH_TOKEN: {{ METRICS_BASIC_AUTH_TOKEN }}
 
       AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: '{{ AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}'
       AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: '{{ AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}'
diff --git a/requirements.in b/requirements.in
index ffb607e07..2a4d87e41 100644
--- a/requirements.in
+++ b/requirements.in
@@ -33,4 +33,4 @@ govuk-frontend-jinja @ git+https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend-jinja.git@
 
 # gds-metrics requires prometheseus 0.2.0, override that requirement as later versions bring significant performance gains
 prometheus-client==0.14.0
-gds-metrics==0.2.4
+git+https://github.com/alphagov/gds_metrics_python.git@6f1840a57b6fb1ee40b7e84f2f18ec229de8aa72
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 70f0c585e..8937488b3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ flask-redis==0.4.0
     # via notifications-utils
 flask-wtf==1.0.1
     # via -r requirements.in
-gds-metrics==0.2.4
+gds-metrics @ git+https://github.com/alphagov/gds_metrics_python.git@6f1840a57b6fb1ee40b7e84f2f18ec229de8aa72
     # via -r requirements.in
 geojson==2.5.0
     # via notifications-utils