diff --git a/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt b/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
index c0a32c3743..7a0b91af99 100644
--- a/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/recommendationservice/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 grpcio-health-checking==1.59.2
 grpcio==1.59.2
 opentelemetry-distro==0.41b0
-opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc==1.20.0
+opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-proto-grpc==1.21.0
 python-dotenv==1.0.0
 python-json-logger==2.0.7
 psutil==5.9.6 # Importing this will also import opentelemetry-instrumentation-system-metrics when running opentelemetry-bootstrap