diff --git a/backend/Cargo.lock b/backend/Cargo.lock
index 08184adb1c..26ee0710f3 100644
--- a/backend/Cargo.lock
+++ b/backend/Cargo.lock
@@ -13670,6 +13670,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "axum 0.8.9",
  "base64 0.22.1",
  "bytes",
+ "flate2",
  "h2 0.4.19",
  "http 1.5.0",
  "http-body 1.1.0",
@@ -13689,6 +13690,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tower-layer",
  "tower-service",
  "tracing",
+ "zstd",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
diff --git a/backend/Cargo.toml b/backend/Cargo.toml
index a6b42d3e7a..be7ab2d192 100644
--- a/backend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/backend/Cargo.toml
@@ -701,7 +701,7 @@ async-stream = "^0"
 opentelemetry = "0.30.0"
 tracing-opentelemetry = "0.31.0"
 opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.30.0", features = ["rt-tokio", "testing"] }
-opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.30.0", features = ["grpc-tonic", "tls", "http-proto"] }
+opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.30.0", features = ["grpc-tonic", "tls", "http-proto", "gzip-tonic", "zstd-tonic"] }
 opentelemetry-appender-tracing = "0.30.0"
 opentelemetry-semantic-conventions = { version = "0.30.0", features = ["semconv_experimental"] }
 opentelemetry-proto = { version = "0.30.0", features = ["with-serde", "gen-tonic"] }