diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1ed3373895c..22a8219eea9 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -4787,7 +4787,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "ockam_vault_aws",
  "once_cell",
  "open",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.24.0",
  "opentelemetry-appender-tracing",
  "opentelemetry-otlp",
  "opentelemetry-semantic-conventions",
@@ -4881,7 +4881,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "ockam_vault",
  "once_cell",
  "open",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.24.0",
  "pem-rfc7468",
  "proptest",
  "r3bl_rs_utils_core",
@@ -4927,7 +4927,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "minicbor",
  "ockam_macros",
  "once_cell",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.24.0",
  "proptest",
  "quickcheck",
  "rand",
@@ -5035,7 +5035,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "ockam_macros",
  "ockam_transport_core",
  "once_cell",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.24.0",
  "regex",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
@@ -5125,7 +5125,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "ockam_macros",
  "ockam_node",
  "ockam_transport_core",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.24.0",
  "pnet",
  "rand",
  "rustls 0.23.13",
@@ -5297,13 +5297,27 @@ dependencies = [
  "thiserror",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "opentelemetry"
+version = "0.26.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "570074cc999d1a58184080966e5bd3bf3a9a4af650c3b05047c2621e7405cd17"
+dependencies = [
+ "futures-core",
+ "futures-sink",
+ "js-sys",
+ "once_cell",
+ "pin-project-lite",
+ "thiserror",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "opentelemetry-appender-tracing"
-version = "0.5.0"
+version = "0.26.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "b84de945cb3a6f1e0d6317cbd998bbd0519ab00f4b790db67e0ff4fdcf7cedb6"
+checksum = "14f62d9a23c680ab91c74605f5006110768eb67600bb654937fef5c852fb8ec7"
 dependencies = [
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.26.0",
  "tracing",
  "tracing-core",
  "tracing-subscriber",
@@ -5318,7 +5332,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "async-trait",
  "futures-core",
  "http 1.1.0",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.24.0",
  "opentelemetry-proto",
  "opentelemetry_sdk",
  "prost",
@@ -5333,7 +5347,7 @@ version = "0.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "30ee9f20bff9c984511a02f082dc8ede839e4a9bf15cc2487c8d6fea5ad850d9"
 dependencies = [
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.24.0",
  "opentelemetry_sdk",
  "prost",
  "tonic",
@@ -5358,7 +5372,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "futures-util",
  "glob",
  "once_cell",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.24.0",
  "percent-encoding",
  "rand",
  "serde_json",
@@ -8258,7 +8272,7 @@ checksum = "a9784ed4da7d921bc8df6963f8c80a0e4ce34ba6ba76668acadd3edbd985ff3b"
 dependencies = [
  "js-sys",
  "once_cell",
- "opentelemetry",
+ "opentelemetry 0.24.0",
  "opentelemetry_sdk",
  "smallvec",
  "tracing",
diff --git a/implementations/rust/ockam/ockam_api/Cargo.toml b/implementations/rust/ockam/ockam_api/Cargo.toml
index 16862bd96fe..94ad4333db4 100644
--- a/implementations/rust/ockam/ockam_api/Cargo.toml
+++ b/implementations/rust/ockam/ockam_api/Cargo.toml
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ minicbor = { version = "0.24.1", features = ["alloc", "derive"] }
 nix = { version = "0.29", features = ["signal"] }
 open = "5.3.0"
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.24.0", features = ["logs", "metrics", "trace"] }
-opentelemetry-appender-tracing = { version = "0.5.0" }
+opentelemetry-appender-tracing = { version = "0.26.0" }
 opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.17.0", features = ["logs", "metrics", "trace", "grpc-tonic", "tls", "tls-roots"], default-features = false }
 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = { version = "0.16.0" }
 opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.24.1", features = ["logs", "metrics", "trace", "rt-tokio", "rt-tokio-current-thread", "testing", "logs_level_enabled"], default-features = false }