diff --git a/cmd/nginx-ingress/main.go b/cmd/nginx-ingress/main.go
index d9373c5ae7..1ff67bcd25 100644
--- a/cmd/nginx-ingress/main.go
+++ b/cmd/nginx-ingress/main.go
@@ -43,8 +43,10 @@ import (
 var version string
 
 const (
-	nginxVersionLabel = "app.nginx.org/version"
-	versionLabel      = "app.kubernetes.io/version"
+	nginxVersionLabel      = "app.nginx.org/version"
+	versionLabel           = "app.kubernetes.io/version"
+	appProtectVersionLabel = "appprotect.f5.com/version"
+	appProtectVersionPath  = "/opt/app_protect/VERSION"
 )
 
 func main() {
@@ -71,7 +73,12 @@ func main() {
 
 	nginxVersion := getNginxVersionInfo(nginxManager)
 
-	updateSelfWithVersionInfo(kubeClient, version, nginxVersion)
+	var appProtectVersion string
+	if *appProtect {
+		appProtectVersion = getAppProtectVersionInfo()
+	}
+
+	updateSelfWithVersionInfo(kubeClient, version, nginxVersion, appProtectVersion)
 
 	templateExecutor, templateExecutorV2 := createTemplateExecutors()
 
@@ -402,6 +409,16 @@ func getNginxVersionInfo(nginxManager nginx.Manager) string {
 	return nginxVersion
 }
 
+func getAppProtectVersionInfo() string {
+	v, err := os.ReadFile(appProtectVersionPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		glog.Fatalf("Cannot detect the AppProtect version, %s", err.Error())
+	}
+	version := strings.TrimSpace(string(v))
+	glog.Infof("Using AppProtect Version %s", version)
+	return version
+}
+
 func startApAgentsAndPlugins(nginxManager nginx.Manager) (chan error, chan error) {
 	var aPPluginDone chan error
 
@@ -766,7 +783,7 @@ func processConfigMaps(kubeClient *kubernetes.Clientset, cfgParams *configs.Conf
 	return cfgParams
 }
 
-func updateSelfWithVersionInfo(kubeClient *kubernetes.Clientset, version string, nginxVersion string) {
+func updateSelfWithVersionInfo(kubeClient *kubernetes.Clientset, version string, nginxVersion string, appProtectVersion string) {
 	pod, err := kubeClient.CoreV1().Pods(os.Getenv("POD_NAMESPACE")).Get(context.TODO(), os.Getenv("POD_NAME"), meta_v1.GetOptions{})
 	if err != nil {
 		glog.Errorf("Error getting pod: %v", err)
@@ -783,6 +800,9 @@ func updateSelfWithVersionInfo(kubeClient *kubernetes.Clientset, version string,
 	replacer := strings.NewReplacer(" ", "-", "(", "", ")", "")
 	nginxVer = replacer.Replace(nginxVer)
 	labels[nginxVersionLabel] = nginxVer
+	if appProtectVersion != "" {
+		labels[appProtectVersionLabel] = appProtectVersion
+	}
 	labels[versionLabel] = strings.TrimPrefix(version, "v")
 	newPod.ObjectMeta.Labels = labels
 
diff --git a/tests/requirements.txt b/tests/requirements.txt
index 78ce8322f3..3f2821387d 100644
--- a/tests/requirements.txt
+++ b/tests/requirements.txt
@@ -206,9 +206,9 @@ forcediphttpsadapter==1.1.0 \
     --hash=sha256:0d224cf6e8e50eb788c9f5994a7afa6d389bac6dbe540b7dfd77a32590ad0153 \
     --hash=sha256:5e7662ece61735585332d09b87d94fffe4752469d5c0d3feff48746e5d70744b
     # via -r requirements.txt
-google-auth==2.23.4 \
-    --hash=sha256:79905d6b1652187def79d491d6e23d0cbb3a21d3c7ba0dbaa9c8a01906b13ff3 \
-    --hash=sha256:d4bbc92fe4b8bfd2f3e8d88e5ba7085935da208ee38a134fc280e7ce682a05f2
+google-auth==2.24.0 \
+    --hash=sha256:2ec7b2a506989d7dbfdbe81cb8d0ead8876caaed14f86d29d34483cbe99c57af \
+    --hash=sha256:9b82d5c8d3479a5391ea0a46d81cca698d328459da31d4a459d4e901a5d927e0
     # via
     #   -r requirements.txt
     #   kubernetes
@@ -538,9 +538,9 @@ urllib3==2.1.0 \
     #   -r requirements.txt
     #   kubernetes
     #   requests
-websocket-client==1.6.4 \
-    --hash=sha256:084072e0a7f5f347ef2ac3d8698a5e0b4ffbfcab607628cadabc650fc9a83a24 \
-    --hash=sha256:b3324019b3c28572086c4a319f91d1dcd44e6e11cd340232978c684a7650d0df
+websocket-client==1.7.0 \
+    --hash=sha256:10e511ea3a8c744631d3bd77e61eb17ed09304c413ad42cf6ddfa4c7787e8fe6 \
+    --hash=sha256:f4c3d22fec12a2461427a29957ff07d35098ee2d976d3ba244e688b8b4057588
     # via
     #   -r requirements.txt
     #   kubernetes