diff --git a/backend/pyproject.toml b/backend/pyproject.toml
index ed28062..d5fcd55 100644
--- a/backend/pyproject.toml
+++ b/backend/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "mcp>=1.0",
     "temporalio>=1.8",
     "croniter>=2.0",
-    "opentelemetry-api>=1.28",
+    "opentelemetry-api>=1.44.0",
     "opentelemetry-sdk>=1.28",
     "opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-http>=1.28",
     "opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi>=0.49b0",