diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 68dd981e..f66715c6 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ buildscript {
 
         // The PA Commons (https://github.com/opensearch-project/performance-analyzer-commons)
         // is a library dependency with hardcoded versioning in PA and RCA repos.
-        paCommonsVersion = "1.5.0"
+        paCommonsVersion = "1.6.0"
 
         // 3.0.0-SNAPSHOT -> 3.0.0.0-SNAPSHOT
         version_tokens = opensearch_version.tokenize('-')