diff --git a/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml b/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml
index 7486a6ba3..2eb1c4c2f 100644
--- a/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/hyperlight_host/Cargo.toml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ tracing-forest = { version = "0.1.6", features = ["uuid","chrono","smallvec","se
 tracing = "0.1.37"
 tracing-subscriber = {version = "0.3.18", features = ["std", "env-filter"]}
 tracing-opentelemetry = "0.25.0"
-opentelemetry = "0.24.0"
+opentelemetry = "0.26.0"
 opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.17.0", features = ["default"] }
 opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.24.1", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
 tokio = { version = "1.34.0", features = ["full"] }