diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index e69de2517fec..ada52f69b715 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ url = { version = "2.5.4", default-features = false, features = ["std"] }
 opentelemetry = { version = "0.32", default-features = false }
 opentelemetry_sdk = { version = "0.32", default-features = false, features = ["metrics"] }
 opentelemetry-http = { version = "0.32", default-features = false, features = ["internal-logs", "reqwest"] }
-opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.32", default-features = false, features = ["http-proto", "internal-logs", "logs", "metrics", "reqwest-client", "trace"] }
+opentelemetry-otlp = { version = "0.32", default-features = false, features = ["http-proto", "internal-logs", "logs", "metrics", "reqwest-blocking-client", "trace"] }
 opentelemetry-appender-tracing = { version = "0.32", default-features = false, features = ["experimental_span_attributes"] }
 opentelemetry-stdout = { version = "0.32", default-features = false, features = ["trace", "metrics", "logs"] }
 tracing-opentelemetry = { version = "0.33", default-features = false, features = ["metrics"] }
diff --git a/crates/goose/src/otel/otlp.rs b/crates/goose/src/otel/otlp.rs
index ae1c59390ee5..6a6eb82aca3f 100644
--- a/crates/goose/src/otel/otlp.rs
+++ b/crates/goose/src/otel/otlp.rs
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ impl ExporterType {
 /// (matching what `.with_http()` produces in this build).
 ///
 /// goose's `opentelemetry-otlp` build only enables the `http-proto` /
-/// `reqwest-client` transport features — not `grpc-tonic`. If the caller's
+/// `reqwest-blocking-client` transport features — not `grpc-tonic`. If the caller's
 /// environment sets `…_PROTOCOL=grpc`, the `.with_http()` exporter still
 /// builds successfully but its background batch / metric reader threads
 /// panic on the first export with