diff --git a/build-tools.Dockerfile b/build-tools.Dockerfile
index cf6439d004b6..7a2ec9c43e75 100644
--- a/build-tools.Dockerfile
+++ b/build-tools.Dockerfile
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ RUN set -e \
 
 # Keep the version the same as in compute/compute-node.Dockerfile and
 # test_runner/regress/test_compute_metrics.py.
-ENV SQL_EXPORTER_VERSION=0.16.0
+ENV SQL_EXPORTER_VERSION=0.17.0
 RUN curl -fsSL \
     "https://github.com/burningalchemist/sql_exporter/releases/download/${SQL_EXPORTER_VERSION}/sql_exporter-${SQL_EXPORTER_VERSION}.linux-$(case "$(uname -m)" in x86_64) echo amd64;; aarch64) echo arm64;; esac).tar.gz" \
     --output sql_exporter.tar.gz \
diff --git a/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile b/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
index 2d38796d7748..89cee6761f71 100644
--- a/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
+++ b/compute/compute-node.Dockerfile
@@ -1274,11 +1274,11 @@ RUN set -e \
 #
 #########################################################################################
 
-FROM quay.io/prometheuscommunity/postgres-exporter:v0.12.1 AS postgres-exporter
+FROM quay.io/prometheuscommunity/postgres-exporter:v0.16.0 AS postgres-exporter
 
 # Keep the version the same as in build-tools.Dockerfile and
 # test_runner/regress/test_compute_metrics.py.
-FROM burningalchemist/sql_exporter:0.16.0 AS sql-exporter
+FROM burningalchemist/sql_exporter:0.17.0 AS sql-exporter
 
 #########################################################################################
 #
diff --git a/test_runner/regress/test_compute_metrics.py b/test_runner/regress/test_compute_metrics.py
index 71963355b70c..5dcc93acffd8 100644
--- a/test_runner/regress/test_compute_metrics.py
+++ b/test_runner/regress/test_compute_metrics.py
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ def __init__(
             #
             # The "host" network mode allows sql_exporter to talk to the
             # endpoint which is running on the host.
-            super().__init__("docker.io/burningalchemist/sql_exporter:0.16.0", network_mode="host")
+            super().__init__("docker.io/burningalchemist/sql_exporter:0.17.0", network_mode="host")
 
             self.__logs_dir = logs_dir
             self.__port = port
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ def start(self) -> Self:
             log.info("Waiting for sql_exporter to be ready")
             wait_for_logs(
                 self,
-                rf'level=info msg="Listening on" address=\[::\]:{self.__port}',
+                rf'msg="Listening on" address=\[::\]:{self.__port}',
                 timeout=5,
             )
 
@@ -344,10 +344,7 @@ def start(self) -> None:
                         time.sleep(0.5)
                         continue
 
-                    if (
-                        f'level=info msg="Listening on" address=[::]:{self._sql_exporter_port}'
-                        in line
-                    ):
+                    if f'msg="Listening on" address=[::]:{self._sql_exporter_port}' in line:
                         break
 
         @override