diff --git a/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt b/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
index f78e3636ff..b4b03de1dd 100644
--- a/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 grpcio-health-checking==1.60.0
 grpcio==1.60.0
-opentelemetry-distro==0.46b0
-opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc==1.25.0
+elastic-opentelemetry==0.1.0
 python-dotenv==1.0.0
 python-json-logger==2.0.7
 openfeature-sdk==0.7.0