diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index b35e5e18..12c6ea2d 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -4,14 +4,14 @@ PATH
     synapse (0.11.1)
       aws-sdk (~> 1.39)
       docker-api (~> 1.7.2)
-      etcd (~> 0.2.3)
+      etcd (~> 0.2.4)
       zk (~> 1.9.4)
 
 GEM
   remote: https://rubygems.org/
   specs:
     archive-tar-minitar (0.5.2)
-    aws-sdk (1.47.0)
+    aws-sdk (1.51.0)
       json (~> 1.4)
       nokogiri (>= 1.4.4)
     coderay (1.1.0)
@@ -20,12 +20,10 @@ GEM
       archive-tar-minitar
       excon (>= 0.28)
       json
-    excon (0.38.0)
-    ffi (1.9.3-java)
-    etcd (0.2.3)
+    etcd (0.2.4)
       mixlib-log
+    excon (0.39.5)
     json (1.8.1)
-    json (1.8.1-java)
     little-plugger (1.1.3)
     logging (1.8.2)
       little-plugger (>= 1.1.3)
@@ -34,38 +32,32 @@ GEM
     mini_portile (0.6.0)
     mixlib-log (1.6.0)
     multi_json (1.10.1)
-    nokogiri (1.6.2.1)
+    nokogiri (1.6.3.1)
       mini_portile (= 0.6.0)
-    nokogiri (1.6.2.1-java)
-    pry (0.9.12.2)
-      coderay (~> 1.0.5)
-      method_source (~> 0.8)
+    pry (0.10.1)
+      coderay (~> 1.1.0)
+      method_source (~> 0.8.1)
       slop (~> 3.4)
-    pry-nav (0.2.3)
-      pry (~> 0.9.10)
-    spoon (0.0.4)
-      ffi
+    pry-nav (0.2.4)
+      pry (>= 0.9.10, < 0.11.0)
     rake (10.3.2)
     rspec (3.0.0)
       rspec-core (~> 3.0.0)
       rspec-expectations (~> 3.0.0)
       rspec-mocks (~> 3.0.0)
-    rspec-core (3.0.2)
+    rspec-core (3.0.4)
       rspec-support (~> 3.0.0)
-    rspec-expectations (3.0.2)
+    rspec-expectations (3.0.4)
       diff-lcs (>= 1.2.0, < 2.0)
       rspec-support (~> 3.0.0)
-    rspec-mocks (3.0.2)
+    rspec-mocks (3.0.4)
       rspec-support (~> 3.0.0)
-    rspec-support (3.0.2)
-    slop (3.5.0)
+    rspec-support (3.0.4)
+    slop (3.6.0)
     zk (1.9.4)
       logging (~> 1.8.2)
       zookeeper (~> 1.4.0)
     zookeeper (1.4.8)
-    zookeeper (1.4.8-java)
-      slyphon-log4j (= 1.2.15)
-      slyphon-zookeeper_jar (= 3.3.5)
 
 PLATFORMS
   ruby
diff --git a/lib/synapse/service_watcher/etcd.rb b/lib/synapse/service_watcher/etcd.rb
index 45e72b99..dc4ec277 100644
--- a/lib/synapse/service_watcher/etcd.rb
+++ b/lib/synapse/service_watcher/etcd.rb
@@ -2,25 +2,6 @@
 
 require 'etcd'
 
-# Monkeypatch till 91f9e72d6d57ae3760e9266835f404d986072590 gets to rubygems..
-module Etcd
-  module Keys
-    def watch(key, opts = {})
-      params = { wait: true }
-      fail ArgumentError, 'Second argument must be a hash' unless opts.is_a?(Hash)
-      timeout = opts[:timeout] || @read_timeout
-      index = opts[:waitIndex] || opts[:index]
-      params[:waitIndex] = index unless index.nil?
-      params[:consistent] = opts[:consistent] if opts.key?(:consistent)
-      params[:recursive] = opts[:recursive] if opts.key?(:recursive)
-
-      response = api_execute(key_endpoint + key, :get,
-                             timeout: timeout, params: params)
-      Response.from_http_response(response)
-    end
-  end
-end
-
 module Synapse
   class EtcdWatcher < BaseWatcher
     NUMBERS_RE = /^\d+$/
diff --git a/synapse.gemspec b/synapse.gemspec
index 06b41f22..2f959bb9 100644
--- a/synapse.gemspec
+++ b/synapse.gemspec
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
   gem.add_runtime_dependency "aws-sdk", "~> 1.39"
   gem.add_runtime_dependency "docker-api", "~> 1.7.2"
   gem.add_runtime_dependency "zk", "~> 1.9.4"
-  gem.add_runtime_dependency "etcd", "~> 0.2.3"
+  gem.add_runtime_dependency "etcd", "~> 0.2.4"
 
   gem.add_development_dependency "rake"
   gem.add_development_dependency "rspec"