diff --git a/examples/logs-basic/Cargo.toml b/examples/logs-basic/Cargo.toml
index 52b8182e31..00321af4fc 100644
--- a/examples/logs-basic/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/logs-basic/Cargo.toml
@@ -6,10 +6,8 @@ license = "Apache-2.0"
 publish = false
 
 [dependencies]
-opentelemetry = { path = "../../opentelemetry", features = ["logs"] }
 opentelemetry_sdk = { path = "../../opentelemetry-sdk", features = ["logs"] }
 opentelemetry-stdout = { path = "../../opentelemetry-stdout", features = ["logs"]}
 opentelemetry-appender-tracing = { path = "../../opentelemetry-appender-tracing", default-features = false}
-opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = { path = "../../opentelemetry-semantic-conventions" }
 tracing = { workspace = true, features = ["std"]}
 tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true, features = ["registry", "std"] }
diff --git a/examples/metrics-advanced/Cargo.toml b/examples/metrics-advanced/Cargo.toml
index 611bec1352..31cdf73a89 100644
--- a/examples/metrics-advanced/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/metrics-advanced/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,4 +10,3 @@ opentelemetry = { path = "../../opentelemetry", features = ["metrics"] }
 opentelemetry_sdk = { path = "../../opentelemetry-sdk", features = ["spec_unstable_metrics_views", "rt-tokio"] }
 opentelemetry-stdout = { path = "../../opentelemetry-stdout", features = ["metrics"] }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["full"] }
-serde_json = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/examples/metrics-basic/Cargo.toml b/examples/metrics-basic/Cargo.toml
index b68573e60a..69a8fc8628 100644
--- a/examples/metrics-basic/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/metrics-basic/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,5 +10,4 @@ opentelemetry = { path = "../../opentelemetry", features = ["metrics"] }
 opentelemetry_sdk = { path = "../../opentelemetry-sdk", features = ["metrics", "rt-tokio"] }
 opentelemetry-stdout = { path = "../../opentelemetry-stdout", features = ["metrics"]}
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["full"] }
-serde_json = { workspace = true }
 
diff --git a/examples/tracing-grpc/Cargo.toml b/examples/tracing-grpc/Cargo.toml
index c4ba3e1105..c836904a37 100644
--- a/examples/tracing-grpc/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/tracing-grpc/Cargo.toml
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ opentelemetry-stdout = { path = "../../opentelemetry-stdout", features = ["trace
 prost = { workspace = true }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["full"] }
 tonic = { workspace = true }
-serde_json = { workspace = true }
 
 [build-dependencies]
 tonic-build = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/examples/tracing-jaeger/Cargo.toml b/examples/tracing-jaeger/Cargo.toml
index 809365c66b..6257f0ebf0 100644
--- a/examples/tracing-jaeger/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/tracing-jaeger/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,5 +9,4 @@ publish = false
 opentelemetry = { path = "../../opentelemetry" }
 opentelemetry_sdk = { path = "../../opentelemetry-sdk", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
 opentelemetry-otlp = { path = "../../opentelemetry-otlp", features = ["tonic"] }
-opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = { path = "../../opentelemetry-semantic-conventions" }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["full"] }
diff --git a/opentelemetry-otlp/examples/basic-otlp-http/Cargo.toml b/opentelemetry-otlp/examples/basic-otlp-http/Cargo.toml
index 4549607738..0c0c099024 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-otlp/examples/basic-otlp-http/Cargo.toml
+++ b/opentelemetry-otlp/examples/basic-otlp-http/Cargo.toml
@@ -16,16 +16,9 @@ experimental_metrics_periodicreader_with_async_runtime = ["opentelemetry_sdk/exp
 once_cell = { workspace = true }
 opentelemetry = { path = "../../../opentelemetry" }
 opentelemetry_sdk = { path = "../../../opentelemetry-sdk", features = ["rt-tokio", "experimental_metrics_periodicreader_with_async_runtime"]}
-opentelemetry-http = { path = "../../../opentelemetry-http", optional = true, default-features = false}
 opentelemetry-otlp = { path = "../..", features = ["http-proto", "http-json", "logs"] , default-features = false}
 opentelemetry-appender-tracing = { path = "../../../opentelemetry-appender-tracing", default-features = false}
-opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = { path = "../../../opentelemetry-semantic-conventions" }
 
-async-trait = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-bytes = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-http = { workspace = true, optional = true }
-http-body-util = { workspace = true, optional = true  }
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["full"] }
 tracing = { workspace = true, features = ["std"]}
-tracing-core = { workspace = true }
 tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true, features = ["env-filter","registry", "std", "fmt"] }
diff --git a/opentelemetry-otlp/examples/basic-otlp/Cargo.toml b/opentelemetry-otlp/examples/basic-otlp/Cargo.toml
index 36d093154f..ad050bc338 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-otlp/examples/basic-otlp/Cargo.toml
+++ b/opentelemetry-otlp/examples/basic-otlp/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,9 +10,7 @@ once_cell = { workspace = true }
 opentelemetry = { path = "../../../opentelemetry" }
 opentelemetry_sdk = { path = "../../../opentelemetry-sdk", features = ["rt-tokio"] }
 opentelemetry-otlp = { path = "../../../opentelemetry-otlp" }
-opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = { path = "../../../opentelemetry-semantic-conventions" }
 tokio = { version = "1.0", features = ["full"] }
 opentelemetry-appender-tracing = { path = "../../../opentelemetry-appender-tracing", default-features = false}
 tracing = { workspace = true, features = ["std"]}
-tracing-core = { workspace = true }
 tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true, features = ["env-filter","registry", "std", "fmt"] }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/opentelemetry-stdout/Cargo.toml b/opentelemetry-stdout/Cargo.toml
index 40221a9d41..7061a5831b 100644
--- a/opentelemetry-stdout/Cargo.toml
+++ b/opentelemetry-stdout/Cargo.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ futures-util = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.27", path = "../opentelemetry" }
 opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.27", path = "../opentelemetry-sdk" }
 serde = { workspace = true, features = ["derive"] }
-serde_json = { workspace = true }
 ordered-float = { workspace = true }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
diff --git a/stress/Cargo.toml b/stress/Cargo.toml
index e8ebe6cd37..b4b86ba330 100644
--- a/stress/Cargo.toml
+++ b/stress/Cargo.toml
@@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ tracing = { workspace = true, features = ["std"]}
 tracing-subscriber = { workspace = true, features = ["registry", "std"] }
 num-format = "0.4.4"
 sysinfo = { version = "0.32", optional = true }
-libc = "0.2"
 async-trait = "0.1.51"
 futures-executor = { workspace = true }