diff --git a/.github/workflows/reusable-markdown-link-check.yml b/.github/workflows/reusable-markdown-link-check.yml
index 23c28caed2bc..7c2f372df4e8 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/reusable-markdown-link-check.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/reusable-markdown-link-check.yml
@@ -14,14 +14,7 @@ jobs:
 
       - uses: lycheeverse/lychee-action@82202e5e9c2f4ef1a55a3d02563e1cb6041e5332 # v2.4.1
         with:
-          # excluding links to pull requests and issues is done for performance
-          # stackexchange link fails with 403 when accessed by lychee
           args: >
-            --include-fragments
-            --exclude "^https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/(issues|pull)/\\d+$"
-            --exclude "^http://code.google.com/p/concurrentlinkedhashmap$"
-            --exclude "^https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/29727"
-            --max-retries 6
-            --max-concurrency 4
+            --config ./lychee.toml
             --github-token ${{ github.token }}
             .
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 42e4e27f7515..308ea9e1651f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ hs_err_pid*
 replay_pid*
 .attach_pid*
 .telemetry*
+.lycheecache
 
 !java-agent/benchmark/releases/*.jar
 
diff --git a/lychee.toml b/lychee.toml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..698a061990de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lychee.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+max_retries = 6
+max_concurrency = 4
+
+# Stealth
+user_agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0"
+
+# Check fragments in links
+include_fragments = true
+
+# excluding links to pull requests and issues is done for performance
+# stackexchange link fails with 403 when accessed by lychee
+exclude = [
+  '^https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/(issues|pull)/\d+$',
+  '^http://code.google.com/p/concurrentlinkedhashmap$',
+  '^https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/29727.*',
+  '^https://central.sonatype.com/service/rest/repository/browse/maven-snapshots/io/opentelemetry/$',
+]
+
+