diff --git a/build.gradle b/build.gradle
index 534782e2..8ac346a2 100644
--- a/build.gradle
+++ b/build.gradle
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ subprojects {
       opentelemetryJavaagent: "1.7.2",
       bytebuddy             : "1.10.18",
       guava                 : "30.1-jre",
-      appopticsCore         : "7.0.1",
+      appopticsCore         : "7.0.2",
       appopticsMetrics      : "7.0.0"
     ]
     versions.opentelemetryAlpha = "${versions.opentelemetry}-alpha"
diff --git a/custom/src/main/java/com/appoptics/opentelemetry/extensions/AppOpticsProfilingSpanProcessor.java b/custom/src/main/java/com/appoptics/opentelemetry/extensions/AppOpticsProfilingSpanProcessor.java
index fdab16b3..b04a596b 100644
--- a/custom/src/main/java/com/appoptics/opentelemetry/extensions/AppOpticsProfilingSpanProcessor.java
+++ b/custom/src/main/java/com/appoptics/opentelemetry/extensions/AppOpticsProfilingSpanProcessor.java
@@ -34,9 +34,10 @@ public void onStart(Context parentContext, ReadWriteSpan span) {
             SpanContext parentSpanContext = Span.fromContext(parentContext).getSpanContext();
             if (!parentSpanContext.isValid() || parentSpanContext.isRemote()) { //then a root span of this service
                 if (PROFILER_ENABLED) {
-                    Metadata metadata = Util.buildMetadata(span.getSpanContext());
+                    SpanContext spanContext = span.getSpanContext();
+                    Metadata metadata = Util.buildMetadata(spanContext);
                     if (metadata.isValid()) {
-                        Profiler.addProfiledThread(Thread.currentThread(), metadata, metadata.getTraceId());
+                        Profiler.addProfiledThread(Thread.currentThread(), metadata, Metadata.bytesToHex(metadata.getTaskID()));
                         span.setAttribute(SW_KEY_PREFIX + "ProfileSpans", 1);
                     }
                 } else {
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ public void onEnd(ReadableSpan span) {
         if (span.getSpanContext().isSampled()) { //only profile on sampled spans
             SpanContext parentSpanContext = span.toSpanData().getParentSpanContext();
             if (!parentSpanContext.isValid() || parentSpanContext.isRemote()) { //then a root span of this service
-                Profiler.stopProfile(Util.toTraceId(span.getSpanContext().getTraceIdBytes()));
+                Profiler.stopProfile(span.getSpanContext().getTraceId());
             }
         }
     }