diff --git a/dev-requirements.txt b/dev-requirements.txt
index 1bc726c0..202cdfbe 100644
--- a/dev-requirements.txt
+++ b/dev-requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 pytest==7.1.2 # tests/test_utils.py depends on that pytest version is exactly 7.1.2
+pytest-cov
 colorama
 docopt-ng
 gitdb2
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index f53b9b0a..59562d92 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,3 +6,5 @@ py-cpuinfo>=4.0
 colorama>=0.4
 packaging>=18.0
 GitPython
+importlib_metadata ; python_version < '3.11'
+importlib_resources ; python_version < '3.10'
diff --git a/sacred/dependencies.py b/sacred/dependencies.py
index 8470c048..9760b1b7 100644
--- a/sacred/dependencies.py
+++ b/sacred/dependencies.py
@@ -8,7 +8,15 @@
 import sys
 from pathlib import Path
 
-import pkg_resources
+if sys.version_info < (3, 10):
+    import importlib_resources
+else:
+    import importlib.resources as importlib_resources
+
+if sys.version_info < (3, 11):
+    import importlib_metadata
+else:
+    import importlib.metadata as importlib_metadata
 
 import sacred.optional as opt
 from sacred import SETTINGS
@@ -226,7 +234,6 @@
     "pickletools",
     "pip",
     "pipes",
-    "pkg_resources",
     "pkgutil",
     "platform",
     "plistlib",
@@ -261,7 +268,6 @@
     "ScrolledText",
     "selectors",
     "sets",
-    "setuptools",
     "sgmllib",
     "sha",
     "shelve",
@@ -498,8 +504,10 @@ def __init__(self, name, version):
     def fill_missing_version(self):
         if self.version is not None:
             return
-        dist = pkg_resources.working_set.by_key.get(self.name)
-        self.version = dist.version if dist else None
+        try:
+            self.version = importlib_metadata.distribution(self.name).version
+        except importlib_metadata.PackageNotFoundError:
+            self.version = None
 
     def to_json(self):
         return "{}=={}".format(self.name, self.version or "<unknown>")
@@ -523,14 +531,12 @@ def __repr__(self):
     def create(cls, mod):
         if not cls.modname_to_dist:
             # some packagenames don't match the module names (e.g. PyYAML)
-            # so we set up a dict to map from module name to package name
-            for dist in pkg_resources.working_set:
-                try:
-                    toplevel_names = dist._get_metadata("top_level.txt")
-                    for tln in toplevel_names:
-                        cls.modname_to_dist[tln] = dist.project_name, dist.version
-                except Exception:
-                    pass
+            # so we use the packages_distributions() mapping provided by importlib_metadata
+            cls.modname_to_dist = {
+                m: (dist, importlib_metadata.distribution(dist).version)
+                for m, dists in importlib_metadata.packages_distributions().items()
+                for dist in  dists
+            }
 
         name, version = cls.modname_to_dist.get(mod.__name__, (mod.__name__, None))
 
@@ -701,10 +707,8 @@ def get_dependencies_from_imported_modules(globs, base_path):
 
 def get_dependencies_from_pkg(globs, base_path):
     dependencies = set()
-    for dist in pkg_resources.working_set:
-        if dist.version == "0.0.0":
-            continue  # ugly hack to deal with pkg-resource version bug
-        dependencies.add(PackageDependency(dist.project_name, dist.version))
+    for dist in importlib_metadata.distributions():
+        dependencies.add(PackageDependency(dist.name, dist.version))
     return dependencies
 
 
diff --git a/sacred/observers/mongo.py b/sacred/observers/mongo.py
index 7c6a90e9..3d00e025 100644
--- a/sacred/observers/mongo.py
+++ b/sacred/observers/mongo.py
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
 import time
 from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
 import warnings
+if sys.version_info < (3, 10):
+    import importlib_resources
+else:
+    import importlib.resources as importlib_resources
 
 import sacred.optional as opt
 from sacred.commandline_options import cli_option
@@ -15,13 +19,12 @@
 from sacred.observers.queue import QueueObserver
 from sacred.serializer import flatten
 from sacred.utils import ObserverError, PathType
-import pkg_resources
 
 DEFAULT_MONGO_PRIORITY = 30
 
 # This ensures consistent mimetype detection across platforms.
 mimetype_detector = mimetypes.MimeTypes(
-    filenames=[pkg_resources.resource_filename("sacred", "data/mime.types")]
+    filenames=[str(importlib_resources.files("sacred") / "data/mime.types")]
 )
 
 
diff --git a/tests/test_observers/test_tinydb_observer.py b/tests/test_observers/test_tinydb_observer.py
index 0e72b263..d65e8242 100644
--- a/tests/test_observers/test_tinydb_observer.py
+++ b/tests/test_observers/test_tinydb_observer.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
-# coding=utf-8
 from __future__ import division, print_function, unicode_literals, absolute_import
+# coding=utf-8
 
 import os
 import datetime