diff --git a/ddev/changelog.d/16506.fixed b/ddev/changelog.d/16506.fixed
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..fc8b23a4eb117
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ddev/changelog.d/16506.fixed
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Bump the `datadog-checks-dev` minimum version to 29.0.1
diff --git a/ddev/pyproject.toml b/ddev/pyproject.toml
index 044f1c77ae04f..322a527737a27 100644
--- a/ddev/pyproject.toml
+++ b/ddev/pyproject.toml
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "click~=8.1.6",
     "coverage",
     "datadog-api-client==2.20.0",
-    "datadog-checks-dev[cli]~=29.0",
+    "datadog-checks-dev[cli]>=29.0.1,<=30",
     "hatch>=1.8.1",
     "httpx",
     "jsonpointer",