diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d2b2c930b6..5ddb3f488b 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 - `opentelemetry-instrumentation-aws-lambda` Bugfix: AWS Lambda event source key incorrect for SNS in instrumentation library. 
   ([#2612](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/2612))
+- `opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics` Permit to use psutil 6.0+.
+  ([#2630](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/pull/2630))
 
 ### Added
 
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/pyproject.toml b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/pyproject.toml
index 07ba2faa20..8518ddc8db 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/pyproject.toml
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/pyproject.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
   "opentelemetry-instrumentation == 0.47b0.dev",
   "opentelemetry-api ~= 1.11",
-  "psutil ~= 5.9",
+  "psutil >= 5.9.0, < 7",
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
diff --git a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/test-requirements.txt b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/test-requirements.txt
index ddb98399cf..13573c65bd 100644
--- a/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/test-requirements.txt
+++ b/instrumentation/opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics/test-requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ importlib-metadata==6.11.0
 iniconfig==2.0.0
 packaging==24.0
 pluggy==1.5.0
-psutil==5.9.8
+psutil==6.0.0
 py-cpuinfo==9.0.0
 pytest==7.4.4
 pytest-benchmark==4.0.0