diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index fae0dc770e..161592f0ae 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@
 	url = https://github.com/pybind/pybind11.git
 [submodule "projects/rocprofiler-sdk/external/gotcha"]
 	path = projects/rocprofiler-sdk/external/gotcha
-	url = https://jrmadsen@github.com/jrmadsen/GOTCHA
+	url = https://github.com/ROCm/GOTCHA
 [submodule "projects/rocprofiler-systems/external/timemory"]
 	path = projects/rocprofiler-systems/external/timemory
 	url = https://github.com/ROCm/timemory.git
diff --git a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/external/gotcha b/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/external/gotcha
index 9afbaf0ae5..b944da10ff 160000
--- a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/external/gotcha
+++ b/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/external/gotcha
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 9afbaf0ae5858098d50f79bf494b6333da17da6b
+Subproject commit b944da10ff9b3364ef2e4b12e02cb2464e05dd48
diff --git a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/lib/python/rocpd/__init__.py b/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/lib/python/rocpd/__init__.py
index dc9f798560..acc6d4490c 100644
--- a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/lib/python/rocpd/__init__.py
+++ b/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/lib/python/rocpd/__init__.py
@@ -32,6 +32,13 @@ try:
 except Exception:
     pass
 
+try:
+    import sqlite3
+
+    sqlite3.connect(":memory:")  # Test if sqlite3 is available
+except Exception:
+    pass
+
 from . import libpyrocpd
 from .importer import RocpdImportData
 
diff --git a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/lib/python/rocpd/source/interop.cpp b/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/lib/python/rocpd/source/interop.cpp
index bdde41b0b9..5cb5d8cb7f 100644
--- a/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/lib/python/rocpd/source/interop.cpp
+++ b/projects/rocprofiler-sdk/source/lib/python/rocpd/source/interop.cpp
@@ -161,6 +161,22 @@ auto bindings = std::array<gotcha_binding_t, 4>{
 void
 activate_gotcha_bindings()
 {
+#if defined(GOTCHA_INIT) && GOTCHA_INIT > 0
+    // initialize gotcha
+    gotcha_init_config_t gotcha_cfg = {
+        .size = sizeof(gotcha_init_config_t), .dl_open_bind = 0, .dl_sym_bind = 0};
+    gotcha_init(&gotcha_cfg);
+#endif
+
+    // this ensures that the sqlite3 module is imported and the sqlite3_open_v2 and sqlite3_close_v2
+    // in lib-dynload/_sqlite3.cpython-*.so are remapped to the gotcha bindings.
+    // this is needed to ensure that the sqlite3 connections are captured by gotcha
+    {
+        auto sqlite3_mod = py::module_::import("sqlite3");
+        auto ret         = sqlite3_mod.attr("connect")(":memory:");
+        ret.attr("close")();
+    }
+
     // activate the gotcha wrappers
     auto _err = gotcha_wrap(bindings.data(), bindings.size(), "rocpd.sqlite3");
     ROCP_WARNING_IF(_err != GOTCHA_SUCCESS) << "gotcha error for rocpd.sqlite3";