diff --git a/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile b/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile
index 3a7ec7ec8dd1..17d19c149c7c 100644
--- a/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors="https://bitnami.com/contact" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="Application packaged by Bitnami" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="1.6.0-debian-11-r15" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="1.6.0-debian-11-r16" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/kafka-exporter" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="kafka-exporter" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="VMware, Inc." \
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ ENV HOME="/" \
 COPY prebuildfs /
 SHELL ["/bin/bash", "-o", "pipefail", "-c"]
 # Install required system packages and dependencies
-RUN install_packages ca-certificates curl libc6 procps
+RUN install_packages ca-certificates curl procps
 RUN mkdir -p /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && cd /tmp/bitnami/pkg/cache/ && \
     COMPONENTS=( \
-      "kafka-exporter-1.6.0-1-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11" \
+      "kafka-exporter-1.6.0-2-linux-${OS_ARCH}-debian-11" \
     ) && \
     for COMPONENT in "${COMPONENTS[@]}"; do \
       if [ ! -f "${COMPONENT}.tar.gz" ]; then \
diff --git a/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/debian-11/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json b/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/debian-11/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json
index 683a95d754d9..aaa7d195b5a8 100644
--- a/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/debian-11/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json
+++ b/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/debian-11/prebuildfs/opt/bitnami/.bitnami_components.json
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 {
     "kafka-exporter": {
         "arch": "amd64",
-        "digest": "990dc3a8b1d2f61a2830957f4572640aec0631035ffc77b68f89766a88c919b2",
+        "digest": "9deb2acd0b5bdc77dde8cf3033a7e7f299da2e3d4bb6c5dcc7b92e970cdf2a79",
         "distro": "debian-11",
         "type": "NAMI",
-        "version": "1.6.0-1"
+        "version": "1.6.0-2"
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/bitnami/kafka-exporter/README.md b/bitnami/kafka-exporter/README.md
index 8f95b393d6f5..9c2239dede75 100644
--- a/bitnami/kafka-exporter/README.md
+++ b/bitnami/kafka-exporter/README.md
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ Non-root container images add an extra layer of security and are generally recom
 Learn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling tags and immutable tags [in our documentation page](https://docs.bitnami.com/tutorials/understand-rolling-tags-containers/).
 
 
-* [`1`, `1-debian-11`, `1.6.0`, `1.6.0-debian-11-r15`, `latest` (1/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile)
+* [`1`, `1-debian-11`, `1.6.0`, `1.6.0-debian-11-r16`, `latest` (1/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/kafka-exporter/1/debian-11/Dockerfile)
 
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