diff --git a/config/config.yaml b/config/config.yaml
index 382daff8..fbbfc5e4 100644
--- a/config/config.yaml
+++ b/config/config.yaml
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ cerberus:
 performance_monitoring:
     deploy_dashboards: False                              # Install a mutable grafana and load the performance dashboards. Enable this only when running on OpenShift
     repo: "https://github.com/cloud-bulldozer/performance-dashboards.git"
-    kube_burner_binary_url: "https://github.com/cloud-bulldozer/kube-burner/releases/download/v0.9.1/kube-burner-0.9.1-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz"
+    kube_burner_binary_url: "https://github.com/cloud-bulldozer/kube-burner/releases/download/v1.7.0/kube-burner-1.7.0-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz"
     capture_metrics: False
     config_path: config/kube_burner.yaml                  # Define the Elasticsearch url and index name in this config
     metrics_profile_path: config/metrics-aggregated.yaml
diff --git a/run_kraken.py b/run_kraken.py
index db718988..af93db8f 100644
--- a/run_kraken.py
+++ b/run_kraken.py
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ KUBE_BURNER_URL = (
     "https://github.com/cloud-bulldozer/kube-burner/"
     "releases/download/v{version}/kube-burner-{version}-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz"
 )
-KUBE_BURNER_VERSION = "0.9.1"
+KUBE_BURNER_VERSION = "1.7.0"
 
 
 # Main function