diff --git a/exporter/opensearchexporter/config.go b/exporter/opensearchexporter/config.go
index 225c6c2c6811..891a21212159 100644
--- a/exporter/opensearchexporter/config.go
+++ b/exporter/opensearchexporter/config.go
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ import (
 
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/config/confighttp"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter/exporterhelper"
-	"go.uber.org/multierr"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -46,5 +45,5 @@ func (cfg *Config) Validate() error {
 	if len(cfg.Namespace) == 0 {
 		multiErr = append(multiErr, errNamespaceNoValue)
 	}
-	return multierr.Combine(multiErr...)
+	return errors.Join(multiErr...)
 }
diff --git a/exporter/opensearchexporter/go.mod b/exporter/opensearchexporter/go.mod
index 24ccf8be21c4..4cbc8aacb08e 100644
--- a/exporter/opensearchexporter/go.mod
+++ b/exporter/opensearchexporter/go.mod
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ require (
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/consumer v0.88.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/exporter v0.88.0
 	go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata v1.0.0-rcv0017
-	go.uber.org/multierr v1.11.0
 	go.uber.org/zap v1.26.0
 	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1
 )
@@ -53,6 +52,7 @@ require (
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel v1.19.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/metric v1.19.0 // indirect
 	go.opentelemetry.io/otel/trace v1.19.0 // indirect
+	go.uber.org/multierr v1.11.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/net v0.17.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.13.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/text v0.13.0 // indirect
diff --git a/exporter/opensearchexporter/trace_bulk_indexer.go b/exporter/opensearchexporter/trace_bulk_indexer.go
index e3eb7d66e97a..5c0861e9b0f3 100644
--- a/exporter/opensearchexporter/trace_bulk_indexer.go
+++ b/exporter/opensearchexporter/trace_bulk_indexer.go
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import (
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/consumer/consumererror"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/pcommon"
 	"go.opentelemetry.io/collector/pdata/ptrace"
-	"go.uber.org/multierr"
 )
 
 type traceBulkIndexer struct {
@@ -31,7 +30,7 @@ func newTraceBulkIndexer(dataset string, namespace string) *traceBulkIndexer {
 }
 
 func (tbi *traceBulkIndexer) joinedError() error {
-	return multierr.Combine(tbi.errs...)
+	return errors.Join(tbi.errs...)
 }
 
 func (tbi *traceBulkIndexer) start(client *opensearch.Client) error {