diff --git a/ports/opentelemetry-cpp/portfile.cmake b/ports/opentelemetry-cpp/portfile.cmake
index 1f161405109706..2c2d7c40483851 100644
--- a/ports/opentelemetry-cpp/portfile.cmake
+++ b/ports/opentelemetry-cpp/portfile.cmake
@@ -5,9 +5,11 @@ endif()
 vcpkg_from_github(
     OUT_SOURCE_PATH SOURCE_PATH
     REPO open-telemetry/opentelemetry-cpp
-    REF v1.5.0
-    SHA512 a506973223c49531d4b0c3febf5734dfe2e44c22f8854ed96935cda0783a14d0819cc3dbb2d3f8373f960f27acf78aafc777ee76aeb14828df9c4b4434e4fe6f
+    REF v1.6.0
+    SHA512 ae0777451a3d2d676afd9f3142ab78c7afb08474f6038bd810ff0ee30fee6695e10100c901e7ffadf3faf16c7d19622acdea414cd720be8572f7720f2d528628
     HEAD_REF main
+    PATCHES
+        support_absl_cxx17.patch
 )
 
 vcpkg_check_features(OUT_FEATURE_OPTIONS FEATURE_OPTIONS
@@ -23,16 +25,18 @@ vcpkg_check_features(OUT_FEATURE_OPTIONS FEATURE_OPTIONS
 
 # opentelemetry-proto is a third party submodule and opentelemetry-cpp release did not pack it.
 if(WITH_OTLP)
-    set(OTEL_PROTO_VERSION "0.17.0")
+    set(OTEL_PROTO_VERSION "0.18.0")
     vcpkg_download_distfile(ARCHIVE
         URLS "https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-proto/archive/v${OTEL_PROTO_VERSION}.tar.gz"
         FILENAME "opentelemetry-proto-${OTEL_PROTO_VERSION}.tar.gz"
-        SHA512 b61d7fe7d6e1b5943d45ab9d17c22fe36c0f7a8312f668aea2b6685aa0f5c98aaa41e76659057310ec1f061d36ad9e66993be177039121f62f73858a6749d3d9
+        SHA512 5176e93ddbb92d10b5900f42bb7b98cd718488fb261ad204e73127e1bf1feb6a20cf17d5c7d4fbdd89575cef6c7fa98127a28d83e50ffba61da01a73659ddae6
     )
 
-    vcpkg_extract_source_archive("${ARCHIVE}" "${SOURCE_PATH}/third_party")
+    vcpkg_extract_source_archive(src ARCHIVE "${ARCHIVE}")
     file(REMOVE_RECURSE "${SOURCE_PATH}/third_party/opentelemetry-proto")
-    file(RENAME "${SOURCE_PATH}/third_party/opentelemetry-proto-${OTEL_PROTO_VERSION}" "${SOURCE_PATH}/third_party/opentelemetry-proto")
+    file(COPY "${src}/." DESTINATION "${SOURCE_PATH}/third_party/opentelemetry-proto")
+    # Create empty .git directory to prevent opentelemetry from cloning it during build time
+    file(MAKE_DIRECTORY "${SOURCE_PATH}/third_party/opentelemetry-proto/.git")
 endif()
 
 vcpkg_cmake_configure(
@@ -46,7 +50,7 @@ vcpkg_cmake_configure(
 )
 
 vcpkg_cmake_install()
-vcpkg_cmake_config_fixup(CONFIG_PATH lib/cmake/opentelemetry-cpp)
+vcpkg_cmake_config_fixup(CONFIG_PATH lib/cmake/${PORT})
 vcpkg_copy_pdbs()
 
 file(REMOVE_RECURSE "${CURRENT_PACKAGES_DIR}/debug/include")
diff --git a/ports/opentelemetry-cpp/support_absl_cxx17.patch b/ports/opentelemetry-cpp/support_absl_cxx17.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000000..44b841b118231a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ports/opentelemetry-cpp/support_absl_cxx17.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
+index a1b69340..193c9e39 100644
+--- a/CMakeLists.txt
++++ b/CMakeLists.txt
+@@ -305,7 +305,11 @@ if(WITH_OTLP)
+                                                        CACHE{WITH_OTLP_HTTP}))
+     find_package(CURL)
+   endif()
+-
++  if (ABSL_USE_CXX17)
++    message(STATUS "Found absl uses CXX17, enable CXX17 feature.")
++    set(CMAKE_CXX_STANDARD 17)
++    set(WITH_STL ON)
++  endif()
+   cmake_dependent_option(
+     WITH_OTLP_GRPC "Whether to include the OTLP gRPC exporter in the SDK" ON
+     "gRPC_FOUND" OFF)
diff --git a/ports/opentelemetry-cpp/vcpkg.json b/ports/opentelemetry-cpp/vcpkg.json
index f34c950a124d54..caedbffb7f966f 100644
--- a/ports/opentelemetry-cpp/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/opentelemetry-cpp/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 {
   "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/microsoft/vcpkg/master/scripts/vcpkg.schema.json",
   "name": "opentelemetry-cpp",
-  "version-semver": "1.5.0",
-  "port-version": 1,
+  "version-semver": "1.6.0",
   "description": [
     "OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs.",
     "You use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (metrics, logs, and traces) for analysis in order to understand your software's performance and behavior."
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 297dc1338ec56c..076de41105e285 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -5421,8 +5421,8 @@
       "port-version": 4
     },
     "opentelemetry-cpp": {
-      "baseline": "1.5.0",
-      "port-version": 1
+      "baseline": "1.6.0",
+      "port-version": 0
     },
     "opentracing": {
       "baseline": "1.6.0",
diff --git a/versions/o-/opentelemetry-cpp.json b/versions/o-/opentelemetry-cpp.json
index d721e8038f983e..0901872edf5af1 100644
--- a/versions/o-/opentelemetry-cpp.json
+++ b/versions/o-/opentelemetry-cpp.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "b85f6215a2936a5a21c752b11e16fc7250a102b2",
+      "version-semver": "1.6.0",
+      "port-version": 0
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "49b229180a92d7c0148fd1c28a691a76c59aea51",
       "version-semver": "1.5.0",