diff --git a/docs/my-website/docs/observability/opentelemetry_integration.md b/docs/my-website/docs/observability/opentelemetry_integration.md
index 5df82c93c875..958c33f18e64 100644
--- a/docs/my-website/docs/observability/opentelemetry_integration.md
+++ b/docs/my-website/docs/observability/opentelemetry_integration.md
@@ -34,8 +34,9 @@ OTEL_HEADERS="Authorization=Bearer%20<your-api-key>"
 <TabItem value="otel-col" label="Log to OTEL HTTP Collector">
 
 ```shell
-OTEL_EXPORTER="otlp_http"
-OTEL_ENDPOINT="http://0.0.0.0:4318"
+OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT="http://0.0.0.0:4318"
+OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL=http/json
+OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS="api-key=key,other-config-value=value"
 ```
 
 </TabItem>
@@ -43,8 +44,9 @@ OTEL_ENDPOINT="http://0.0.0.0:4318"
 <TabItem value="otel-col-grpc" label="Log to OTEL GRPC Collector">
 
 ```shell
-OTEL_EXPORTER="otlp_grpc"
-OTEL_ENDPOINT="http://0.0.0.0:4317"
+OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT="http://0.0.0.0:4318"
+OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL=grpc
+OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS="api-key=key,other-config-value=value"
 ```
 
 </TabItem>
@@ -98,7 +100,7 @@ LiteLLM emits the user_api_key_metadata
 - user_id
 - team_id
 
-for successful + failed requests 
+for successful + failed requests
 
 click under `litellm_request` in the trace
 
diff --git a/litellm/integrations/opentelemetry.py b/litellm/integrations/opentelemetry.py
index 01be466dff10..270e55da66c0 100644
--- a/litellm/integrations/opentelemetry.py
+++ b/litellm/integrations/opentelemetry.py
@@ -63,14 +63,16 @@ def from_env(cls):
             InMemorySpanExporter,
         )
 
-        if os.getenv("OTEL_EXPORTER") == "in_memory":
+        exporter=os.getenv("OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_PROTOCOL", os.getenv("OTEL_EXPORTER", "console"))
+        endpoint=os.getenv("OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_ENDPOINT", os.getenv("OTEL_ENDPOINT"))
+        headers=os.getenv("OTEL_EXPORTER_OTLP_HEADERS", os.getenv("OTEL_HEADERS"))  # example: OTEL_HEADERS=x-honeycomb-team=B85YgLm96***"
+
+        if exporter == "in_memory":
             return cls(exporter=InMemorySpanExporter())
         return cls(
-            exporter=os.getenv("OTEL_EXPORTER", "console"),
-            endpoint=os.getenv("OTEL_ENDPOINT"),
-            headers=os.getenv(
-                "OTEL_HEADERS"
-            ),  # example: OTEL_HEADERS=x-honeycomb-team=B85YgLm96***"
+            exporter=exporter,
+            endpoint=endpoint,
+            headers=headers,  # example: OTEL_HEADERS=x-honeycomb-team=B85YgLm96***"
         )
 
 
@@ -854,7 +856,7 @@ def _get_span_processor(self, dynamic_headers: Optional[dict] = None):
                 self.OTEL_EXPORTER,
             )
             return BatchSpanProcessor(ConsoleSpanExporter())
-        elif self.OTEL_EXPORTER == "otlp_http":
+        elif self.OTEL_EXPORTER == "otlp_http" or self.OTEL_EXPORTER == "http/protobuf" or self.OTEL_EXPORTER == "http/json":
             verbose_logger.debug(
                 "OpenTelemetry: intiializing http exporter. Value of OTEL_EXPORTER: %s",
                 self.OTEL_EXPORTER,
@@ -864,7 +866,7 @@ def _get_span_processor(self, dynamic_headers: Optional[dict] = None):
                     endpoint=self.OTEL_ENDPOINT, headers=_split_otel_headers
                 ),
             )
-        elif self.OTEL_EXPORTER == "otlp_grpc":
+        elif self.OTEL_EXPORTER == "otlp_grpc" or self.OTEL_EXPORTER == "grpc":
             verbose_logger.debug(
                 "OpenTelemetry: intiializing grpc exporter. Value of OTEL_EXPORTER: %s",
                 self.OTEL_EXPORTER,