diff --git a/src/elasticotel/instrumentation/bootstrap.py b/src/elasticotel/instrumentation/bootstrap.py
index f89afb0..e481e20 100644
--- a/src/elasticotel/instrumentation/bootstrap.py
+++ b/src/elasticotel/instrumentation/bootstrap.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 
 
 # the instrumentations available in opentelemetry-bootstrap we want to skip
-_EXCLUDED_INSTRUMENTATIONS = {"opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai-v2", "opentelemetry-instrumentation-vertexai"}
+_EXCLUDED_INSTRUMENTATIONS = {"opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai-v2"}
 
 # update with:
 # $ python3.12 scripts/build_edot_bootstrap_instrumentations.py | ruff format -
diff --git a/tests/instrumentation/test_bootstrap.py b/tests/instrumentation/test_bootstrap.py
index 31deb6d..47a8538 100644
--- a/tests/instrumentation/test_bootstrap.py
+++ b/tests/instrumentation/test_bootstrap.py
@@ -32,4 +32,3 @@ def test_overriden_instrumentations(monkeypatch, capfd):
     captured = capfd.readouterr()
     assert "opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai-v2" not in captured.out
     assert "elastic-opentelemetry-instrumentation-openai" in captured.out
-    assert "opentelemetry-instrumentation-vertexai" not in captured.out