diff --git a/apollo-router/Cargo.toml b/apollo-router/Cargo.toml
index 4ebb7343f3..568d5585cf 100644
--- a/apollo-router/Cargo.toml
+++ b/apollo-router/Cargo.toml
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ once_cell = "1.16.0"
 # groups `^tracing` and `^opentelemetry*` dependencies together as of
 # https://github.com/apollographql/router/pull/1509.  A comment which exists
 # there (and on `tracing` packages below) should be updated should this change.
-opentelemetry = { version = "0.18.0", features = [
+opentelemetry = { version = "0.19.0", features = [
     "rt-tokio",
     "metrics",
 ] }