diff --git a/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml b/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
index e2b39f94..cb06536d 100644
--- a/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
+++ b/.github/.OwlBot.lock.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 docker:
   image: gcr.io/repo-automation-bots/owlbot-python:latest
-  digest: sha256:99d90d097e4a4710cc8658ee0b5b963f4426d0e424819787c3ac1405c9a26719
+  digest: sha256:5ff7446edeaede81c3ed58b23a4e76a5403fba1350ce28478045657303b6479d
diff --git a/.kokoro/docker/docs/Dockerfile b/.kokoro/docker/docs/Dockerfile
index 412b0b56..4e1b1fb8 100644
--- a/.kokoro/docker/docs/Dockerfile
+++ b/.kokoro/docker/docs/Dockerfile
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ RUN apt-get update \
     libssl-dev \
     libsqlite3-dev \
     portaudio19-dev \
+    python3-distutils \
     redis-server \
     software-properties-common \
     ssh \
@@ -59,40 +60,8 @@ RUN apt-get update \
   && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
   && rm -f /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
 
-
-COPY fetch_gpg_keys.sh /tmp
-# Install the desired versions of Python.
-RUN set -ex \
-    && export GNUPGHOME="$(mktemp -d)" \
-    && echo "disable-ipv6" >> "${GNUPGHOME}/dirmngr.conf" \
-    && /tmp/fetch_gpg_keys.sh \
-    && for PYTHON_VERSION in 3.7.8 3.8.5; do \
-        wget --no-check-certificate -O python-${PYTHON_VERSION}.tar.xz "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz" \
-        && wget --no-check-certificate -O python-${PYTHON_VERSION}.tar.xz.asc "https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PYTHON_VERSION%%[a-z]*}/Python-$PYTHON_VERSION.tar.xz.asc" \
-        && gpg --batch --verify python-${PYTHON_VERSION}.tar.xz.asc python-${PYTHON_VERSION}.tar.xz \
-        && rm -r python-${PYTHON_VERSION}.tar.xz.asc \
-        && mkdir -p /usr/src/python-${PYTHON_VERSION} \
-        && tar -xJC /usr/src/python-${PYTHON_VERSION} --strip-components=1 -f python-${PYTHON_VERSION}.tar.xz \
-        && rm python-${PYTHON_VERSION}.tar.xz \
-        && cd /usr/src/python-${PYTHON_VERSION} \
-        && ./configure \
-            --enable-shared \
-            # This works only on Python 2.7 and throws a warning on every other
-            # version, but seems otherwise harmless.
-            --enable-unicode=ucs4 \
-            --with-system-ffi \
-            --without-ensurepip \
-        && make -j$(nproc) \
-        && make install \
-        && ldconfig \
-  ; done \
-  && rm -rf "${GNUPGHOME}" \
-  && rm -rf /usr/src/python* \
-  && rm -rf ~/.cache/
-
 RUN wget -O /tmp/get-pip.py 'https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py' \
-  && python3.7 /tmp/get-pip.py \
   && python3.8 /tmp/get-pip.py \
   && rm /tmp/get-pip.py
 
-CMD ["python3.7"]
+CMD ["python3.8"]
diff --git a/.kokoro/docker/docs/fetch_gpg_keys.sh b/.kokoro/docker/docs/fetch_gpg_keys.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index d653dd86..00000000
--- a/.kokoro/docker/docs/fetch_gpg_keys.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-# Copyright 2020 Google LLC
-#
-# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-# You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# A script to fetch gpg keys with retry.
-# Avoid jinja parsing the file.
-# 
-
-function retry {
-    if [[ "${#}" -le 1 ]]; then
-	echo "Usage: ${0} retry_count commands.."
-	exit 1
-    fi
-    local retries=${1}
-    local command="${@:2}"
-    until [[ "${retries}" -le 0 ]]; do
-	$command && return 0
-	if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
-	    echo "command failed, retrying"
-	    ((retries--))
-	fi
-    done
-    return 1
-}
-
-# 3.6.9, 3.7.5 (Ned Deily)
-retry 3 gpg --keyserver ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys \
-      0D96DF4D4110E5C43FBFB17F2D347EA6AA65421D
-
-# 3.8.0 (Łukasz Langa)
-retry 3 gpg --keyserver ha.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys \
-      E3FF2839C048B25C084DEBE9B26995E310250568
-
-# 
diff --git a/.kokoro/test-samples-impl.sh b/.kokoro/test-samples-impl.sh
index cf5de74c..311a8d54 100755
--- a/.kokoro/test-samples-impl.sh
+++ b/.kokoro/test-samples-impl.sh
@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ set -eo pipefail
 # Enables `**` to include files nested inside sub-folders
 shopt -s globstar
 
-# Exit early if samples directory doesn't exist
-if [ ! -d "./samples" ]; then
-  echo "No tests run. `./samples` not found"
+# Exit early if samples don't exist
+if ! find samples -name 'requirements.txt' | grep -q .; then
+  echo "No tests run. './samples/**/requirements.txt' not found"
   exit 0
 fi
 
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 6815f5fe..d0fd5bf2 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -4,6 +4,13 @@
 
 [1]: https://pypi.org/project/google-cloud-monitoring/#history
 
+### [2.4.1](https://www.github.com/googleapis/python-monitoring/compare/v2.4.0...v2.4.1) (2021-07-20)
+
+
+### Bug Fixes
+
+* **deps:** pin 'google-{api,cloud}-core', 'google-auth' to allow 2.x versions ([#183](https://www.github.com/googleapis/python-monitoring/issues/183)) ([fdc5b07](https://www.github.com/googleapis/python-monitoring/commit/fdc5b0729cb3cb7e204c36569f253fb57728b740))
+
 ## [2.4.0](https://www.github.com/googleapis/python-monitoring/compare/v2.3.0...v2.4.0) (2021-07-01)
 
 
diff --git a/samples/snippets/v3/alerts-client/requirements.txt b/samples/snippets/v3/alerts-client/requirements.txt
index cdc33156..812b773c 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/v3/alerts-client/requirements.txt
+++ b/samples/snippets/v3/alerts-client/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-google-cloud-monitoring==2.3.0
+google-cloud-monitoring==2.4.0
 tabulate==0.8.9
diff --git a/samples/snippets/v3/cloud-client/requirements-test.txt b/samples/snippets/v3/cloud-client/requirements-test.txt
index 6f3b1872..30570013 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/v3/cloud-client/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/samples/snippets/v3/cloud-client/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-backoff==1.10.0
+backoff==1.11.0
 pytest==6.2.4
 mock==4.0.3
diff --git a/samples/snippets/v3/cloud-client/requirements.txt b/samples/snippets/v3/cloud-client/requirements.txt
index 6e571c26..1f497d5a 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/v3/cloud-client/requirements.txt
+++ b/samples/snippets/v3/cloud-client/requirements.txt
@@ -1 +1 @@
-google-cloud-monitoring==2.3.0
+google-cloud-monitoring==2.4.0
diff --git a/samples/snippets/v3/uptime-check-client/requirements-test.txt b/samples/snippets/v3/uptime-check-client/requirements-test.txt
index 766a8035..b179d9b0 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/v3/uptime-check-client/requirements-test.txt
+++ b/samples/snippets/v3/uptime-check-client/requirements-test.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-backoff==1.10.0
+backoff==1.11.0
 pytest==6.2.4
diff --git a/samples/snippets/v3/uptime-check-client/requirements.txt b/samples/snippets/v3/uptime-check-client/requirements.txt
index cdc33156..812b773c 100644
--- a/samples/snippets/v3/uptime-check-client/requirements.txt
+++ b/samples/snippets/v3/uptime-check-client/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
-google-cloud-monitoring==2.3.0
+google-cloud-monitoring==2.4.0
 tabulate==0.8.9
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 96816f53..4bc0c127 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,14 +22,17 @@
 
 name = "google-cloud-monitoring"
 description = "Stackdriver Monitoring API client library"
-version = "2.4.0"
+version = "2.4.1"
 # Should be one of:
 # 'Development Status :: 3 - Alpha'
 # 'Development Status :: 4 - Beta'
 # 'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable'
 release_status = "Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable"
 dependencies = [
-    "google-api-core[grpc] >= 1.26.0, <2.0.0dev",
+    # NOTE: Maintainers, please do not require google-api-core>=2.x.x
+    # Until this issue is closed
+    # https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-python/issues/10566
+    "google-api-core[grpc] >= 1.26.0, <3.0.0dev",
     "proto-plus >= 1.15.0",
     "packaging >= 14.3",
 ]