diff --git a/warehouse/metrics-core/src/main/java/datawave/metrics/mapreduce/MetricsIngester.java b/warehouse/metrics-core/src/main/java/datawave/metrics/mapreduce/MetricsIngester.java
index 936cbe2e3c0..e67a69ca388 100644
--- a/warehouse/metrics-core/src/main/java/datawave/metrics/mapreduce/MetricsIngester.java
+++ b/warehouse/metrics-core/src/main/java/datawave/metrics/mapreduce/MetricsIngester.java
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
 import org.apache.accumulo.hadoop.mapreduce.AccumuloInputFormat;
 import org.apache.accumulo.hadoop.mapreduce.AccumuloOutputFormat;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLine;
-import org.apache.commons.cli.GnuParser;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLineParser;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.DefaultParser;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.Option;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.ParseException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
@@ -341,7 +342,7 @@ protected int launchErrorsJob(Job job, Configuration conf)
      * Goes through the arguments and attempts to add relevant values to the configuration
      */
     private void _configure(String[] args) {
-        GnuParser parser = new GnuParser();
+        CommandLineParser parser = new DefaultParser();
         CommandLine cmd;
         try {
             cmd = parser.parse(new MetricsOptions(), args);
diff --git a/warehouse/metrics-core/src/main/java/datawave/metrics/mapreduce/util/JobSetupUtil.java b/warehouse/metrics-core/src/main/java/datawave/metrics/mapreduce/util/JobSetupUtil.java
index f96f7369d36..11ebe80ec59 100644
--- a/warehouse/metrics-core/src/main/java/datawave/metrics/mapreduce/util/JobSetupUtil.java
+++ b/warehouse/metrics-core/src/main/java/datawave/metrics/mapreduce/util/JobSetupUtil.java
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 import org.apache.accumulo.core.data.Range;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.CommandLine;
-import org.apache.commons.cli.GnuParser;
+import org.apache.commons.cli.DefaultParser;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.Option;
 import org.apache.commons.cli.ParseException;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ public static Configuration configure(String[] args, Configuration conf, Logger
         }
 
         MetricsOptions mOpts = new MetricsOptions();
-        CommandLine cl = new GnuParser().parse(mOpts, args);
+        CommandLine cl = new DefaultParser().parse(mOpts, args);
         // add the file config options first
         String confFiles = cl.getOptionValue("conf", "");
         if (confFiles != null && !confFiles.isEmpty()) {