diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index 1d8d784c..1053ab3f 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -245,6 +245,31 @@ jobs:
       - store-pytest-results
       - store-coverage-report
 
+  py310tornado:
+    docker:
+      - image: cimg/python:3.10.12
+      - image: cimg/postgres:9.6.24
+        environment:
+          POSTGRES_USER: root
+          POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ""
+          POSTGRES_DB: circle_test
+      - image: cimg/mariadb:10.11.2
+      - image: cimg/redis:5.0.14
+      - image: rabbitmq:3.9.13
+      - image: mongo:4.2.3
+      - image: singularities/pubsub-emulator
+        environment:
+          PUBSUB_PROJECT_ID: "project-test"
+          PUBSUB_LISTEN_ADDRESS: "0.0.0.0:8432"
+    working_directory: ~/repo
+    steps:
+      - checkout
+      - pip-install-deps:
+          requirements: "tests/requirements-310-with-tornado.txt"
+      - run-tests-with-coverage-report
+      - store-pytest-results
+      - store-coverage-report
+
 workflows:
   version: 2
   build:
@@ -257,3 +282,4 @@ workflows:
       - py37cassandra
       - py38couchbase
       - py38gevent
+      - py310tornado
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diff --git a/.github/dependabot.yml b/.github/dependabot.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c074d16d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/dependabot.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# To get started with Dependabot version updates, you'll need to specify which
+# package ecosystems to update and where the package manifests are located.
+# Please see the documentation for all configuration options:
+# https://docs.github.com/github/administering-a-repository/configuration-options-for-dependency-updates
+
+version: 2
+updates:
+  - package-ecosystem: "pip" # See documentation for possible values
+    directory: "/" # Location of package manifests
+    schedule:
+      interval: "daily"
+      time: "18:30"
+    groups:
+      python-packages:
+        patterns:
+          - "*"
+    versioning-strategy: increase
+    ignore:
+      - dependency-name: "tornado"
+      # The tornado issue partially recorded in the Kanbanize ticket:
+      # https://instana.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/197/cards/135147/details/, and there is an AHA Idea about it.
+      - dependency-name: "google-cloud-pubsub"
+      # google-cloud-pubsub (Collecting google-cloud-pubsub<=2.1.0 (from -r tests/requirements-310.txt (line 11)))
+      - dependency-name: "sanic"
+      # The lagging of the Sanic version is a known issue for at least a year, the oldest ticket is on the archived board:
+      # https://instana.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/49/cards/102939/details/
+      # which is referenced from a ticket on our current board:
+      # https://instana.kanbanize.com/ctrl_board/197/cards/109698/details/
+      - dependency-name: "urllib3"
+      # urllib3 (Collecting urllib3<1.27,>=1.26.5 (from instana==2.0.5->-r requirements.txt (line 2)))
+      - dependency-name: "starlette"
+      # starlette (Collecting starlette<0.28.0,>=0.27.0 (from fastapi>=0.92.0->-r tests/requirements-310.txt (line 7))
+      - dependency-name: "couchbase"
+      - dependency-name: "protobuf"
+      - dependency-name: "importlib-metadata"
+      # fails for python-3.7
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diff --git a/test-requirements/test-requirements.txt b/test-requirements/test-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..00633522
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test-requirements/test-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+# Celery <= 5.3.1
+# Django <= 4.2.4
+# FastAPI <= 0.101.0
+# Flask <= 2.3.2
+# Pyramid <= 2.0.1
+# Sanic <= 21.6.2
+Starlette <0.28.0,>=0.27.0
+# Tornado <= 6.2
+# Aiohttp <= 3.8.5
+# Boto3 <= 1.28.20
+# Google-cloud-pubsub <= 2.18.1
+# Google-cloud-storage <= 2.10.0
+# Grpcio <= 1.56.2
+# Mysqlclient <= 2.2.0
+# Pika <= 1.3.2
+# PyMySQL <= 1.1.0
+# Pymongo <= 4.4.1
+# Psycopg2 <= 2.9.7
+# Redis <= 4.6.0
+# Requests <= 2.31.0
+# SQLAlchemy <= 2.0.19
+# Urllib3 <= 2.0.4
+# Gevent <= 23.7.0
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diff --git a/tests/requirements-310-with-tornado.txt b/tests/requirements-310-with-tornado.txt
index f3ec01db..a301e47b 100644
--- a/tests/requirements-310-with-tornado.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements-310-with-tornado.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # AttributeError: module 'collections' has no attribute 'MutableMapping'
 # An alternative would be to disable this in testconf:
 # collect_ignore_glob.append("*test_tornado*")
-tornado>=6.1
+tornado==6.2
 aiofiles>=0.5.0
 aiohttp>=3.8.3
 boto3>=1.17.74