diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/Cargo.toml b/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/Cargo.toml
index 616ca25972b..bef73e65b44 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/Cargo.toml
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/Cargo.toml
@@ -13,13 +13,17 @@ license.workspace = true
 [dependencies]
 anyhow = { workspace = true }
 metrics = { workspace = true }
-metrics-opentelemetry = { workspace = true }
 metrics-exporter-prometheus = { workspace = true }
+metrics-opentelemetry = { workspace = true }
 metrics-util = { workspace = true }
 opentelemetry = { workspace = true }
 opentelemetry-appender-tracing = { workspace = true }
 opentelemetry-otlp = { workspace = true, features = ["experimental-grpc-retry", "experimental-http-retry"] }
-opentelemetry_sdk = { workspace = true }
+opentelemetry_sdk = { workspace = true, features = [
+    "experimental_logs_batch_log_processor_with_async_runtime",
+    "experimental_metrics_periodicreader_with_async_runtime",
+    "experimental_trace_batch_span_processor_with_async_runtime",
+] }
 serde_json = { workspace = true }
 time = { workspace = true, features = ["parsing"] }
 tracing = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/src/otlp/logs.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/src/otlp/logs.rs
index 4f2949bb612..bc02e260731 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/src/otlp/logs.rs
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/src/otlp/logs.rs
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ use anyhow::Context;
 use opentelemetry_otlp::{
     LogExporter, Protocol as OtlpWireProtocol, WithExportConfig, WithHttpConfig, WithTonicConfig,
 };
-use opentelemetry_sdk::Resource;
 use opentelemetry_sdk::logs::SdkLoggerProvider;
+use opentelemetry_sdk::logs::log_processor_with_async_runtime::BatchLogProcessor;
+use opentelemetry_sdk::{Resource, runtime};
 
 use crate::otlp::{OtlpExporterConfig, OtlpProtocol};
 
@@ -43,14 +44,16 @@ impl OtlpProtocol {
     }
 }
 
+/// Builds the OTLP logger provider.
 pub(crate) fn init_logger_provider(
     otlp_config: &OtlpExporterConfig,
     resource: Resource,
 ) -> anyhow::Result<SdkLoggerProvider> {
     let logs_protocol = otlp_config.logs_protocol()?;
     let log_exporter = logs_protocol.log_exporter()?;
+    let log_processor = BatchLogProcessor::builder(log_exporter, runtime::Tokio).build();
     Ok(SdkLoggerProvider::builder()
         .with_resource(resource)
-        .with_batch_exporter(log_exporter)
+        .with_log_processor(log_processor)
         .build())
 }
diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/src/otlp/metrics.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/src/otlp/metrics.rs
index d43eb3dceb0..793b8b56b98 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/src/otlp/metrics.rs
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/src/otlp/metrics.rs
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ use opentelemetry_otlp::{
     MetricExporter, Protocol as OtlpWireProtocol, WithExportConfig, WithHttpConfig, WithTonicConfig,
 };
 use opentelemetry_sdk::metrics::SdkMeterProvider;
+use opentelemetry_sdk::metrics::periodic_reader_with_async_runtime::PeriodicReader;
+use opentelemetry_sdk::runtime;
 
 use crate::otlp::{OtlpExporterConfig, OtlpProtocol, quickwit_resource};
 
@@ -44,15 +46,17 @@ impl OtlpProtocol {
     }
 }
 
+/// Builds the OTLP metrics recorder and its meter provider.
 pub(crate) fn build_recorder(
     service_version: &str,
     otlp_config: &OtlpExporterConfig,
 ) -> anyhow::Result<(OpenTelemetryRecorder, SdkMeterProvider)> {
     let metrics_protocol = otlp_config.metrics_protocol()?;
     let metric_exporter = metrics_protocol.metric_exporter()?;
+    let metric_reader = PeriodicReader::builder(metric_exporter, runtime::Tokio).build();
     let metrics_provider = SdkMeterProvider::builder()
         .with_resource(quickwit_resource(service_version))
-        .with_periodic_exporter(metric_exporter)
+        .with_reader(metric_reader)
         .build();
     let meter = metrics_provider.meter("quickwit");
 
diff --git a/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/src/otlp/traces.rs b/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/src/otlp/traces.rs
index 67b5db32e18..7bb6879779f 100644
--- a/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/src/otlp/traces.rs
+++ b/quickwit/quickwit-telemetry-exporters/src/otlp/traces.rs
@@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ use anyhow::Context;
 use opentelemetry_otlp::{
     Protocol as OtlpWireProtocol, SpanExporter, WithExportConfig, WithHttpConfig, WithTonicConfig,
 };
+use opentelemetry_sdk::trace::span_processor_with_async_runtime::BatchSpanProcessor;
 use opentelemetry_sdk::trace::{BatchConfigBuilder, SdkTracerProvider};
-use opentelemetry_sdk::{Resource, trace};
+use opentelemetry_sdk::{Resource, runtime};
 
 use crate::otlp::{OtlpExporterConfig, OtlpProtocol};
 
@@ -43,13 +44,14 @@ impl OtlpProtocol {
     }
 }
 
+/// Builds the OTLP tracer provider.
 pub(crate) fn init_tracer_provider(
     otlp_config: &OtlpExporterConfig,
     resource: Resource,
 ) -> anyhow::Result<SdkTracerProvider> {
     let traces_protocol = otlp_config.traces_protocol()?;
     let span_exporter = traces_protocol.span_exporter()?;
-    let span_processor = trace::BatchSpanProcessor::builder(span_exporter)
+    let span_processor = BatchSpanProcessor::builder(span_exporter, runtime::Tokio)
         .with_batch_config(
             BatchConfigBuilder::default()
                 // Quickwit can generate a lot of spans, especially in debug mode, and the