diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 00efe79554..d8efabdadc 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ num-traits = "0.2.19"
 once_cell = "1.13"
 opentelemetry = "0.30"
 opentelemetry_sdk = "0.30"
-opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.30", default-features = false, features = ["http-proto", "trace", "http", "reqwest-client"] }
+opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.30", default-features = false, features = ["http-proto", "trace", "http", "reqwest-blocking-client"] }
 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = "0.30"
 parking_lot = "0.12"
 parquet = { version = "53", default-features = false, features = ["zstd"] }
diff --git a/libs/tracing-utils/Cargo.toml b/libs/tracing-utils/Cargo.toml
index 49a6055b1e..1f8d05ae80 100644
--- a/libs/tracing-utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/libs/tracing-utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ license.workspace = true
 hyper0.workspace = true
 opentelemetry = { workspace = true, features = ["trace"] }
 opentelemetry_sdk = { workspace = true, features = ["rt-tokio"] }
-opentelemetry-otlp = { workspace = true, default-features = false, features = ["http-proto", "trace", "http", "reqwest-client"] }
+opentelemetry-otlp = { workspace = true, default-features = false, features = ["http-proto", "trace", "http", "reqwest-blocking-client"] }
 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions.workspace = true
 tokio = { workspace = true, features = ["rt", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 tracing.workspace = true