diff --git a/plugin/storage/es/spanstore/reader.go b/plugin/storage/es/spanstore/reader.go
index 5b0caa50fbd..1303155c551 100644
--- a/plugin/storage/es/spanstore/reader.go
+++ b/plugin/storage/es/spanstore/reader.go
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ var (
 
 // SpanReader can query for and load traces from ElasticSearch
 type SpanReader struct {
-	ctx    context.Context
 	client es.Client
 	logger *zap.Logger
 	// The age of the oldest service/operation we will look for. Because indices in ElasticSearch are by day,
@@ -119,9 +118,7 @@ type SpanReaderParams struct {
 
 // NewSpanReader returns a new SpanReader with a metrics.
 func NewSpanReader(p SpanReaderParams) *SpanReader {
-	ctx := context.Background()
 	return &SpanReader{
-		ctx:                     ctx,
 		client:                  p.Client,
 		logger:                  p.Logger,
 		maxSpanAge:              p.MaxSpanAge,
@@ -337,7 +334,7 @@ func (s *SpanReader) multiRead(ctx context.Context, traceIDs []model.TraceID, st
 		}
 		// set traceIDs to empty
 		traceIDs = nil
-		results, err := s.client.MultiSearch().Add(searchRequests...).Index(indices...).Do(s.ctx)
+		results, err := s.client.MultiSearch().Add(searchRequests...).Index(indices...).Do(ctx)
 
 		if err != nil {
 			logErrorToSpan(childSpan, err)
@@ -471,7 +468,6 @@ func (s *SpanReader) findTraceIDs(ctx context.Context, traceQuery *spanstore.Tra
 	//  }
 	aggregation := s.buildTraceIDAggregation(traceQuery.NumTraces)
 	boolQuery := s.buildFindTraceIDsQuery(traceQuery)
-
 	jaegerIndices := s.timeRangeIndices(s.spanIndexPrefix, traceQuery.StartTimeMin, traceQuery.StartTimeMax)
 
 	searchService := s.client.Search(jaegerIndices...).
@@ -480,7 +476,7 @@ func (s *SpanReader) findTraceIDs(ctx context.Context, traceQuery *spanstore.Tra
 		IgnoreUnavailable(true).
 		Query(boolQuery)
 
-	searchResult, err := searchService.Do(s.ctx)
+	searchResult, err := searchService.Do(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, errors.Wrap(err, "Search service failed")
 	}
diff --git a/plugin/storage/es/spanstore/reader_test.go b/plugin/storage/es/spanstore/reader_test.go
index f2ec9bdd52a..7f12d94cd87 100644
--- a/plugin/storage/es/spanstore/reader_test.go
+++ b/plugin/storage/es/spanstore/reader_test.go
@@ -803,7 +803,7 @@ func mockMultiSearchService(r *spanReaderTest) *mock.Call {
 	multiSearchService.On("Index", mock.AnythingOfType("string"), mock.AnythingOfType("string"),
 		mock.AnythingOfType("string"), mock.AnythingOfType("string"), mock.AnythingOfType("string")).Return(multiSearchService)
 	r.client.On("MultiSearch").Return(multiSearchService)
-	return multiSearchService.On("Do", mock.AnythingOfType("*context.emptyCtx"))
+	return multiSearchService.On("Do", mock.AnythingOfType("*context.valueCtx"))
 }
 
 func mockArchiveMultiSearchService(r *spanReaderTest, indexName string) *mock.Call {
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ func mockArchiveMultiSearchService(r *spanReaderTest, indexName string) *mock.Ca
 	multiSearchService.On("Add", mock.Anything, mock.Anything, mock.Anything).Return(multiSearchService)
 	multiSearchService.On("Index", indexName).Return(multiSearchService)
 	r.client.On("MultiSearch").Return(multiSearchService)
-	return multiSearchService.On("Do", mock.AnythingOfType("*context.emptyCtx"))
+	return multiSearchService.On("Do", mock.AnythingOfType("*context.valueCtx"))
 }
 
 func mockSearchService(r *spanReaderTest) *mock.Call {