diff --git a/smoke-tests-otel-starter/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/smoketest/OtelSpringStarterDisabledSmokeTest.java b/smoke-tests-otel-starter/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/smoketest/OtelSpringStarterDisabledSmokeTest.java
index d6485fab5a50..cc72943a608c 100644
--- a/smoke-tests-otel-starter/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/smoketest/OtelSpringStarterDisabledSmokeTest.java
+++ b/smoke-tests-otel-starter/src/test/java/io/opentelemetry/smoketest/OtelSpringStarterDisabledSmokeTest.java
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 import io.opentelemetry.spring.smoketest.OtelSpringStarterSmokeTestApplication;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
+import org.junit.jupiter.api.condition.DisabledInNativeImage;
 import org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootTest;
 
 @SpringBootTest(
@@ -15,6 +16,9 @@
       OtelSpringStarterSmokeTest.TestConfiguration.class
     },
     properties = {"otel.sdk.disabled=true"})
+@DisabledInNativeImage // Without this the native tests if the OtelSpringStarterSmokeTest class will
+// fail with org.h2.jdbc.JdbcSQLSyntaxErrorException: Table "TEST_TABLE"
+// already exists
 class OtelSpringStarterDisabledSmokeTest {
 
   @Test