diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index a6fd4179..30915312 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2064,7 +2064,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "nittei_infra",
  "nittei_sdk",
  "nittei_utils",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.28.0",
  "opentelemetry-datadog",
  "opentelemetry-otlp",
  "opentelemetry_sdk",
@@ -2307,6 +2307,19 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror 1.0.69",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "opentelemetry"
+version = "0.28.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "236e667b670a5cdf90c258f5a55794ec5ac5027e960c224bff8367a59e1e6426"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-sink",
+ "js-sys",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "thiserror 2.0.11",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "opentelemetry-datadog"
 version = "0.11.0"
@@ -2320,7 +2333,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "itertools 0.11.0",
  "itoa",
  "once_cell",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.23.0",
  "opentelemetry-http",
  "opentelemetry-semantic-conventions",
  "opentelemetry_sdk",
@@ -2340,7 +2353,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "async-trait",
  "bytes",
  "http 0.2.12",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.23.0",
  "reqwest 0.11.27",
 ]
 
@@ -2353,7 +2366,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "async-trait",
  "futures-core",
  "http 0.2.12",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.23.0",
  "opentelemetry-http",
  "opentelemetry-proto",
  "opentelemetry_sdk",
@@ -2370,7 +2383,7 @@ version = "0.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "984806e6cf27f2b49282e2a05e288f30594f3dbc74eb7a6e99422bc48ed78162"
 dependencies = [
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.23.0",
  "opentelemetry_sdk",
  "prost",
  "tonic",
@@ -2395,7 +2408,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "glob",
  "lazy_static",
  "once_cell",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.23.0",
  "ordered-float",
  "percent-encoding",
  "rand",
@@ -4199,7 +4212,7 @@ checksum = "332bbdf3bd208d1fe6446f8ffb4e8c2ae66e25da0fb38e0b69545e640ecee6a6"
 dependencies = [
  "actix-web",
  "mutually_exclusive_features",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.23.0",
  "pin-project",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-opentelemetry",
@@ -4256,7 +4269,7 @@ checksum = "f68803492bf28ab40aeccaecc7021096bd256baf7ca77c3d425d89b35a7be4e4"
 dependencies = [
  "js-sys",
  "once_cell",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.23.0",
  "opentelemetry_sdk",
  "smallvec",
  "tracing",
diff --git a/bins/nittei/Cargo.toml b/bins/nittei/Cargo.toml
index a6dd7593..5f760524 100644
--- a/bins/nittei/Cargo.toml
+++ b/bins/nittei/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3", features = [
     "json",
     "registry",
 ] }
-opentelemetry = { version = "0.23.0", default-features = false, features = [
+opentelemetry = { version = "0.28.0", default-features = false, features = [
     "trace",
 ] }
 opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.23.0", features = ["rt-tokio"] }