diff --git a/eng/Packages.Data.props b/eng/Packages.Data.props
index 526f32f5325b..91cc8fd446e2 100644
--- a/eng/Packages.Data.props
+++ b/eng/Packages.Data.props
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
     <PackageReference Update="System.IdentityModel.Tokens.Jwt" Version="5.4.0" />
 
     <!-- OpenTelemetry dependency approved for Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter package only -->
-    <PackageReference Update="OpenTelemetry" Version="1.1.0"  Condition="'$(MSBuildProjectName)' == 'Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter'" />
+    <PackageReference Update="OpenTelemetry" Version="1.2.0-rc1"  Condition="'$(MSBuildProjectName)' == 'Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter'" />
   </ItemGroup>
 
   <!--
@@ -237,9 +237,9 @@
     <PackageReference Update="NSubstitute" Version="3.1.0" />
     <PackageReference Update="NUnit" Version="3.13.2" />
     <PackageReference Update="NUnit3TestAdapter" Version="4.1.0" />
-    <PackageReference Update="OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Hosting" Version="1.0.0-rc7" />
-    <PackageReference Update="OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AspNetCore" Version="1.0.0-rc7" />
-    <PackageReference Update="OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.Http" Version="1.0.0-rc7" />
+    <PackageReference Update="OpenTelemetry.Extensions.Hosting" Version="1.0.0-rc8" />
+    <PackageReference Update="OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.AspNetCore" Version="1.0.0-rc8" />
+    <PackageReference Update="OpenTelemetry.Instrumentation.Http" Version="1.0.0-rc8" />
     <PackageReference Update="Polly" Version="7.1.0" />
     <PackageReference Update="Portable.BouncyCastle" Version="1.8.5" />
     <PackageReference Update="PublicApiGenerator" Version="10.0.1" />
diff --git a/sdk/monitor/Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter/api/Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter.netstandard2.0.cs b/sdk/monitor/Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter/api/Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter.netstandard2.0.cs
index ae0a9efbde31..4105ae487bb0 100644
--- a/sdk/monitor/Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter/api/Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter.netstandard2.0.cs
+++ b/sdk/monitor/Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter/api/Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter.netstandard2.0.cs
@@ -20,3 +20,10 @@ public AzureMonitorTraceExporter(Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter.AzureMonit
         public override OpenTelemetry.ExportResult Export(in OpenTelemetry.Batch<System.Diagnostics.Activity> batch) { throw null; }
     }
 }
+namespace Microsoft.Extensions.Logging
+{
+    public static partial class AzureMonitorExporterLoggingExtensions
+    {
+        public static OpenTelemetry.Logs.OpenTelemetryLoggerOptions AddAzureMonitorLogExporter(this OpenTelemetry.Logs.OpenTelemetryLoggerOptions loggerOptions, System.Action<Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter.AzureMonitorExporterOptions> configure = null) { throw null; }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/sdk/monitor/Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter/src/AzureMonitorExporterLoggingExtensions.cs b/sdk/monitor/Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter/src/AzureMonitorExporterLoggingExtensions.cs
index c76ce3699c92..b6e6cafc1a3b 100644
--- a/sdk/monitor/Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter/src/AzureMonitorExporterLoggingExtensions.cs
+++ b/sdk/monitor/Azure.Monitor.OpenTelemetry.Exporter/src/AzureMonitorExporterLoggingExtensions.cs
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 namespace Microsoft.Extensions.Logging
 {
-    internal static class AzureMonitorExporterLoggingExtensions
+    public static class AzureMonitorExporterLoggingExtensions
     {
         public static OpenTelemetryLoggerOptions AddAzureMonitorLogExporter(this OpenTelemetryLoggerOptions loggerOptions, Action<AzureMonitorExporterOptions> configure = null)
         {