diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka-clients-0.11/kafka-clients-0.11.gradle b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka-clients-0.11/kafka-clients-0.11.gradle
index 903e91ecf3..af794867bc 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka-clients-0.11/kafka-clients-0.11.gradle
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka-clients-0.11/kafka-clients-0.11.gradle
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ dependencies {
   testCompile group: 'org.springframework.kafka', name: 'spring-kafka-test', version: '1.3.3.RELEASE'
   testCompile group: 'javax.xml.bind', name: 'jaxb-api', version: '2.2.3'
 
+  // Include latest version of kafka itself along with latest version of client libs.
+  // This seems to help with jar compatibility hell.
+  latestDepTestCompile group: 'org.apache.kafka', name: 'kafka_2.11', version: '+'
   latestDepTestCompile group: 'org.apache.kafka', name: 'kafka-clients', version: '+'
   latestDepTestCompile group: 'org.springframework.kafka', name: 'spring-kafka', version: '+'
   latestDepTestCompile group: 'org.springframework.kafka', name: 'spring-kafka-test', version: '+'
diff --git a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka-streams-0.11/kafka-streams-0.11.gradle b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka-streams-0.11/kafka-streams-0.11.gradle
index 974beb0284..c234298198 100644
--- a/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka-streams-0.11/kafka-streams-0.11.gradle
+++ b/dd-java-agent/instrumentation/kafka-streams-0.11/kafka-streams-0.11.gradle
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ dependencies {
   testCompile group: 'org.springframework.kafka', name: 'spring-kafka-test', version: '1.3.3.RELEASE'
   testCompile group: 'javax.xml.bind', name: 'jaxb-api', version: '2.2.3'
 
+  // Include latest version of kafka itself along with latest version of client libs.
+  // This seems to help with jar compatibility hell.
+  latestDepTestCompile group: 'org.apache.kafka', name: 'kafka_2.11', version: '+'
   latestDepTestCompile group: 'org.apache.kafka', name: 'kafka-clients', version: '+'
   latestDepTestCompile group: 'org.apache.kafka', name: 'kafka-streams', version: '+'
   latestDepTestCompile group: 'org.springframework.kafka', name: 'spring-kafka', version: '+'