diff --git a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/CHANGELOG.md b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/CHANGELOG.md
index 33dc0896c5d9..b4fbbcc0a6c3 100644
--- a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 ### Bugs Fixed
 - Fixed version pinned for opentelemetry-sdk to resolve dependency conflicts.
   ([#43012](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/pull/43012))
+- Modified ordering of dependencies in setup.py to avoid dependency conflicts in future.
+  ([#43023](https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/pull/43023))
 
 ## 1.8.0 (2025-09-08)
 
diff --git a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/setup.py b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/setup.py
index 49d6f281db2e..188f73039b95 100644
--- a/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/setup.py
+++ b/sdk/monitor/azure-monitor-opentelemetry/setup.py
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@
         "azure-core<2.0.0,>=1.28.0",
         "azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry~=1.0.0b11",
         "azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter~=1.0.0b41",
+        "opentelemetry-sdk~=1.36",
         "opentelemetry-instrumentation-django~=0.57b0",
         "opentelemetry-instrumentation-fastapi~=0.57b0",
         "opentelemetry-instrumentation-flask~=0.57b0",
@@ -91,7 +92,6 @@
         "opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib~=0.57b0",
         "opentelemetry-instrumentation-urllib3~=0.57b0",
         "opentelemetry-resource-detector-azure~=0.1.5",
-        "opentelemetry-sdk~=1.36",
     ],
     entry_points={
         "opentelemetry_distro": [