diff --git a/pkg/trace/api/otlp.go b/pkg/trace/api/otlp.go
index d655962227359d..c4977d50710d05 100644
--- a/pkg/trace/api/otlp.go
+++ b/pkg/trace/api/otlp.go
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/pkg/otlp/model/attributes"
 	"github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/pkg/otlp/model/source"
-	"github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/pkg/trace/api/apiutil"
 	"github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/pkg/trace/config"
 	"github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/pkg/trace/info"
 	"github.com/DataDog/datadog-agent/pkg/trace/log"
@@ -147,7 +146,7 @@ func (o *OTLPReceiver) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
 		}
 		r = gzipr
 	}
-	rd := apiutil.NewLimitedReader(r, o.conf.OTLPReceiver.MaxRequestBytes)
+	rd := io.LimitReader(r, o.conf.OTLPReceiver.MaxRequestBytes)
 	slurp, err := io.ReadAll(rd)
 	if err != nil {
 		http.Error(w, err.Error(), http.StatusBadRequest)