diff --git a/package/sysdig/Config.in b/package/sysdig/Config.in
index 6ccb706a5a..672c44d211 100644
--- a/package/sysdig/Config.in
+++ b/package/sysdig/Config.in
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_SYSDIG
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP # libjson
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LUAJIT_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8
-	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # luajit
+	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # luajit, elfutils
+	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # elfutils
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_UCLIBC || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC # elfutils
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_ZLIB
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LUAJIT
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_JSONCPP
@@ -13,6 +15,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_SYSDIG
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_OPENSSL
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_JQ
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_LIBB64
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_ELFUTILS
 	help
 	  Sysdig is open source, system-level exploration:
 	  capture system state and activity from a running Linux
@@ -22,7 +25,8 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_SYSDIG
 
 	  http://sysdig.org
 
-comment "sysdig needs a toolchain w/ C++, gcc >= 4.8, dynamic library and a Linux kernel to be built"
+comment "sysdig needs a glibc or uclibc toolchain w/ C++, gcc >= 4.8, dynamic library and a Linux kernel to be built"
 	depends on !BR2_LINUX_KERNEL || !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP \
-		|| !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 || BR2_STATIC_LIBS
+		|| !BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_4_8 || BR2_STATIC_LIBS \
+		|| !(BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_UCLIBC || BR2_TOOLCHAIN_USES_GLIBC)
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_LUAJIT_ARCH_SUPPORTS
diff --git a/package/sysdig/sysdig.hash b/package/sysdig/sysdig.hash
index 63a9e385d8..565b1e9828 100644
--- a/package/sysdig/sysdig.hash
+++ b/package/sysdig/sysdig.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
-# locally computed
-sha256  480d5d8fd7e7373c08008c30bd8e2c7595d5c45d710bf07bd15a522021b560f6  sysdig-0.19.1.tar.gz
+# sha256 locally computed
+sha256  57d5b713b875eba35546a1408bf3f20c2703904a17d956be115ee55272db4cfa  sysdig-0.23.1.tar.gz
+sha256  8177f97513213526df2cf6184d8ff986c675afb514d4e68a404010521b880643  COPYING
diff --git a/package/sysdig/sysdig.mk b/package/sysdig/sysdig.mk
index a9c9f21bb5..9ac990e3e2 100644
--- a/package/sysdig/sysdig.mk
+++ b/package/sysdig/sysdig.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-SYSDIG_VERSION = 0.19.1
+SYSDIG_VERSION = 0.23.1
 SYSDIG_SITE = $(call github,draios,sysdig,$(SYSDIG_VERSION))
 SYSDIG_LICENSE = GPL-2.0
 SYSDIG_LICENSE_FILES = COPYING
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ SYSDIG_CONF_OPTS = -DUSE_BUNDLED_LUAJIT=OFF -DUSE_BUNDLED_ZLIB=OFF \
 	-DUSE_BUNDLED_JSONCPP=OFF -DENABLE_DKMS=OFF -DUSE_BUNDLED_CURL=OFF \
 	-DUSE_BUNDLED_NCURSES=OFF -DUSE_BUNDLED_OPENSSL=OFF \
 	-DUSE_BUNDLED_JQ=OFF -DUSE_BUNDLED_B64=OFF
-SYSDIG_DEPENDENCIES = zlib luajit jsoncpp libcurl ncurses openssl jq libb64
+SYSDIG_DEPENDENCIES = zlib luajit jsoncpp libcurl ncurses openssl jq libb64 elfutils
 SYSDIG_SUPPORTS_IN_SOURCE_BUILD = NO
 
 # sysdig creates the module Makefile from a template, which contains a