diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 254de6d6941..801b5987278 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
   query_frontend:
     tolerate_failed_blocks: <int>
   ```
+* [CHANGE] Upgrade memcached version in jsonnet microservices [#2466](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/pull/2466) (@zalegrala)
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Add support to filter using negated regex operator `!~` [#2410](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/pull/2410) (@kousikmitra)
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Add `prefix` configuration option to `storage.trace.azure` and `storage.trace.gcs` [#2386](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/pull/2386) (@kousikmitra)
 * [ENHANCEMENT] Add `prefix` configuration option to `storage.trace.s3` [#2362](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/pull/2362) (@kousikmitra)
diff --git a/operations/jsonnet-compiled/StatefulSet-memcached.yaml b/operations/jsonnet-compiled/StatefulSet-memcached.yaml
index 8198cb1f2dc..1c60ba204e7 100644
--- a/operations/jsonnet-compiled/StatefulSet-memcached.yaml
+++ b/operations/jsonnet-compiled/StatefulSet-memcached.yaml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ spec:
         - -I 5m
         - -c 4096
         - -v
-        image: memcached:1.6.9-alpine
+        image: memcached:1.6.17-alpine
         imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent
         name: memcached
         ports:
diff --git a/operations/jsonnet-compiled/util/jsonnetfile.lock.json b/operations/jsonnet-compiled/util/jsonnetfile.lock.json
index 4b2ef1769e6..57a50ab961f 100644
--- a/operations/jsonnet-compiled/util/jsonnetfile.lock.json
+++ b/operations/jsonnet-compiled/util/jsonnetfile.lock.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
           "subdir": "ksonnet-util"
         }
       },
-      "version": "d47b7edbf0ad84f84f886295934a5778a6688503",
+      "version": "d303b2031264728728dd1e1c05f74f67027139f6",
       "sum": "0y3AFX9LQSpfWTxWKSwoLgbt0Wc9nnCwhMH2szKzHv0="
     },
     {
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
           "subdir": "memcached"
         }
       },
-      "version": "d47b7edbf0ad84f84f886295934a5778a6688503",
+      "version": "d303b2031264728728dd1e1c05f74f67027139f6",
       "sum": "SWywAq4U0MRPMbASU0Ez8O9ArRNeoZzb75sEuReueow="
     },
     {
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
           "subdir": "1.21"
         }
       },
-      "version": "9e5b48eee32913938d3cac30f183b49ecd9fe13a",
+      "version": "a0779420abf73f90167d449a9e527319ced7d134",
       "sum": "b8GtKWztbpnnMojHt8A9sfkEgs+2t2rtvZcpDteuLFo="
     },
     {
diff --git a/operations/jsonnet/microservices/config.libsonnet b/operations/jsonnet/microservices/config.libsonnet
index e77bcd69c5f..87d8f17e95e 100644
--- a/operations/jsonnet/microservices/config.libsonnet
+++ b/operations/jsonnet/microservices/config.libsonnet
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     tempo_query: 'grafana/tempo-query:latest',
     tempo_vulture: 'grafana/tempo-vulture:latest',
     rollout_operator: 'grafana/rollout-operator:v0.1.1',
-    memcached: 'memcached:1.6.9-alpine',
+    memcached: 'memcached:1.6.17-alpine',
     memcachedExporter: 'prom/memcached-exporter:v0.6.0',
   },