diff --git a/tests/unit/requirements.txt b/tests/unit/requirements.txt
index 66da4024bd..347fa1928c 100644
--- a/tests/unit/requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/unit/requirements.txt
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ dataclasses ; python_version == '3.6'
 # opentelemetry-sdk ; python_version >= '3.6' and python_version < '3.10'
 
 # requirement for the elastic callback plugin
-elastic-apm ; python_version >= '3.6'
+elastic-apm < 6.13.0