diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 4e6426fa581ef..2b619e520e4ef 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -5289,7 +5289,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "mz-tracing",
  "mz-transform",
  "openssl",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.31.0",
  "prometheus",
  "prost",
  "qcell",
@@ -6166,7 +6166,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "num_cpus",
  "openssl",
  "openssl-sys",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.31.0",
  "opentelemetry_sdk",
  "pin-project",
  "postgres",
@@ -6779,7 +6779,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "mz-repr",
  "mz-service",
  "mz-tracing",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.31.0",
  "opentelemetry_sdk",
  "sentry-tracing",
  "tracing",
@@ -6864,7 +6864,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "num",
  "num-traits",
  "openssl",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.31.0",
  "opentelemetry-otlp",
  "opentelemetry_sdk",
  "parquet",
@@ -8762,6 +8762,20 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror 1.0.69",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "opentelemetry"
+version = "0.31.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b84bcd6ae87133e903af7ef497404dda70c60d0ea14895fc8a5e6722754fc2a0"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-sink",
+ "js-sys",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "thiserror 2.0.17",
+ "tracing",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "opentelemetry-otlp"
 version = "0.17.0"
@@ -8771,7 +8785,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "async-trait",
  "futures-core",
  "http 1.2.0",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.24.0",
  "opentelemetry-proto",
  "opentelemetry_sdk",
  "prost",
@@ -8786,7 +8800,7 @@ version = "0.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "30ee9f20bff9c984511a02f082dc8ede839e4a9bf15cc2487c8d6fea5ad850d9"
 dependencies = [
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.24.0",
  "opentelemetry_sdk",
  "prost",
  "tonic",
@@ -8804,7 +8818,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-util",
  "glob",
  "once_cell",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.24.0",
  "percent-encoding",
  "rand 0.8.5",
  "serde_json",
@@ -12477,7 +12491,7 @@ source = "git+https://github.com/MaterializeInc/tracing-opentelemetry.git#09f0cc
 dependencies = [
  "js-sys",
  "once_cell",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.24.0",
  "opentelemetry_sdk",
  "smallvec",
  "tracing",
diff --git a/src/adapter/Cargo.toml b/src/adapter/Cargo.toml
index 0eb711027466b..5736912385464 100644
--- a/src/adapter/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/adapter/Cargo.toml
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ mz-tracing = { path = "../tracing" }
 mz-transform = { path = "../transform" }
 mz-timestamp-oracle = { path = "../timestamp-oracle" }
 openssl = { version = "0.10.75", features = ["vendored"] }
-opentelemetry = { version = "0.24.0", features = ["trace"] }
+opentelemetry = { version = "0.31.0", features = ["trace"] }
 prometheus = { version = "0.14.0", default-features = false }
 prost = { version = "0.13.5", features = ["no-recursion-limit"] }
 qcell = "0.5"
diff --git a/src/environmentd/Cargo.toml b/src/environmentd/Cargo.toml
index 2609e2b692233..3fd8d54a7ea62 100644
--- a/src/environmentd/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/environmentd/Cargo.toml
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ nix = { version = "0.30.1", features = ["signal"] }
 num_cpus = "1.17.0"
 openssl = { version = "0.10.75", features = ["vendored"] }
 openssl-sys = { version = "0.9.108", features = ["vendored"] }
-opentelemetry = { version = "0.24.0", features = ["trace"] }
+opentelemetry = { version = "0.31.0", features = ["trace"] }
 opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.24.1", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
 pin-project = "1.1.10"
 postgres = { version = "0.19.12", optional = true }
diff --git a/src/orchestrator-tracing/Cargo.toml b/src/orchestrator-tracing/Cargo.toml
index 6bb0c12f678e3..1c9c6d1161b75 100644
--- a/src/orchestrator-tracing/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/orchestrator-tracing/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ sentry-tracing = { version = "0.38.1" }
 tracing = { version = "0.1.37" }
 tracing-capture = { version = "0.1.0", optional = true }
 tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.19", default-features = false }
-opentelemetry = { version = "0.24.0", features = ["trace"] }
+opentelemetry = { version = "0.31.0", features = ["trace"] }
 opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.24.1", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
 workspace-hack = { version = "0.0.0", path = "../workspace-hack", optional = true }
 
diff --git a/src/ore/Cargo.toml b/src/ore/Cargo.toml
index 7d0173d4539c5..beb0fb8eefbda 100644
--- a/src/ore/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/ore/Cargo.toml
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ tokio-native-tls = { version = "0.3.1", optional = true }
 native-tls = { version = "0.2.14", features = ["alpn"], optional = true }
 hyper-tls = { version = "0.6.0", optional = true }
 hyper-util = { version = "0.1.18", optional = true }
-opentelemetry = { version = "0.24.0", features = ["trace"], optional = true }
+opentelemetry = { version = "0.31.0", features = ["trace"], optional = true }
 opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.17.0", optional = true }
 opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.24.1", features = ["rt-tokio"], optional = true }
 console-subscriber = { version = "0.4.1", optional = true }